COORDINATION OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CONTROLS PROGRAM

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2008
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• Publication Date: May 7, 1982
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May 7, 1982
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Senior Interagency Group No. 23
PARTICIPANTS: See List Attached
DATE AND TIME: May 5, 1982, 3:35 p.m.
PLACE: Deputy Secretary's Conference Room 7219, Department of
State
SUBJECT: Coordination of Technology Transfer Controls Program
SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS
Under Secretary Buckley opened the first meeting of the
SIG on Technology Transfer by noting the multiplicity of existing
agency committees engaged in technology transfer control. The
creation. of a SIG would permit more effective coordination of the
control effort and meet concerns being raised in Congress, par-
ticularly in the impending Roth-Nunn hearings, over the adminis-
tration's ability to protect U.S. technology. Finally, the SIG
could coordinate the multilateral campaign necessary to bring
allies into greater conformity with U.S. policy.
A CIA representative briefed the SIG on the Soviet program
to acquire Western technology through overt and covert actions.
The Chairman raised the TOR for discussion, noting that it
was not the intention of the SIG to encroach on the jurisdiction
or activities of existing agency organs such as the Advisory
Committee on Export Policy (ACEP) and the Export Administration
Review Board (EARB) or decision processes such as those asso-
ciated with the Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL).
Rather the SIG would focus on the international aspects of the
technology transfer problem, for example:
-- Follow-up to U.S. technology transfer points introduced
in the Versailles and NATO Summits
-- COCOM Sub-committee on export control
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-- Spanish entry into COCOM
-- Visas and visa denials
The Chairman asked for verbal and written comments within a
10-day period regarding the TOR.
The Commerce representative described the TOR as an
encroachment on the authority of the Secretary of Commerce and
termed it unacceptable. He questioned the need for the SIG and
the authority of the State Department to convene it. He made
reference to a lack of confidence in State's toughmindedness
in technology transfer decisions.
The NSA representative recommended that the TOR clarify the
position of the PRC and third world states in the U.S. effort to
control technology outflows. The chairman accepted the recommen-
dation.
The Treasury representative asked Commerce to clarify its
objections to the SIG. In reply, the Commerce representative
referred to what he termed the proliferation of SIGs in general
and the encroachment upon Department of Commerce policymaking
authority in the present case. The Chairman disclaimed intent
to undermine existing authorities in Commerce or any other
agency.
The OSD representative reserved comment on the TOR pending
further study.
The JCS representative asked for a clarification of
Defense's role in defining strategic technology. He stated
that JCS wished to be active in it and subscribed to the OSD
.reservation pending further study of the TOR.
The ACDA representative stated that ACDA was participating
adequately in the present technology transfer structure and
expressed concerns parallel to those of Commerce with respect
to the SIG.
The NSC representative asked that nothing impinge on the
present Department of Justice committee. The Chairman repeated
that the SIG did not intend to interrupt existing organizations,
including Justice's.
The Energy representative hoped that the creation of a new
SIG might permit the elimination of an existing one.
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Ambassador Kirkpatrick's representative asked Commerce
whether in Commerce's view the existing structure dealt satis-
factorily with the problems described by the CIA briefer and,
if not, what Commerce proposed to improve the U.S. control
mechanism. Commerce replied that the system was not adequate
__but that progress had been made under the present administration,
and it could not be said that the system did not work. The UNA
representative repeated that the current system has not adequate-
ly met the problem as posed by the CIA briefer, and that Commerce
had as yet offered no remedy.
The SIG chairman reiterated that a central forum for discus-
sion of U.S. control activities, particularly the international
cooperation aspects which lay within the realm of U.S. foreign
policy and thus of the Secretary of State, was required if the
U.S. effort was to be better coordinated. The problem could not
be solved by bureaucratic parochialism but by a critical self-
assessment focused on the problem and a sensible solution to it.
He requested agency contributions to such an assessment.
The Commerce representative requested a rapid distribution
of the minutes. This was agreed.
The Chairman in closing referred to the proposal in the TOR
that the SIG form a Special Projects Committee to handle particu-
lar items needing attention or follow-up. The question of better
staffing and coordination within U.S. embassies with respect to
the technology transfer problem was one such item. The Chairman
proposed that it be the first subject of inquiry by the Special
Projects Committee. The Commerce representative wished that
that Commerce's participation in such a committee not be taken
as prejudging Commerce's overall objection to the SIG.
Action Assignments
1. Members of the SIG were asked to forward comments on the
TOR to the SIG Chairman within 10 days (by COB May 17).
2. The Chairman requested that PM's Deputy Director Stefan
Halper contact SIG members by telephone to discuss the proposed
Special Projects Committee study of ways to improve our embassy
situation.
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SIG MEETING - TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
May 5, 1982 - 3:30 p.m.
Room 7219
PARTICIPANTS
-.State: Under Secretary Buckley, Chairman
Stefan Halper, PM
Denis Lam, EB
Victor Comras, EB
Michael Marks, T
Tain Tompkins, S/S-S (Notetaker)
Gus Weiss OSTP: Ed McGaffigan
Gill Rye
Robert Grey
Arch Turrentine
Commerce: Lawrency Brady
DOE: Jan Mares
Vance H. Hudgins
JCS
Justice:
NASA
MGEN Daryle Tripp
CDR William Truesdell
Thomas Marum
Joseph Tafe
Douglas R. Norton
Tal Lindstrom
John Konfala
Oles Lomacky
Treasury: William E. Barreda
Seymour Bolten
UNA: Harvey Feldman
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USTR: James M. Murphy, Jr.
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TERMS OF REFERENCE
1. Background
Continued access by the Soviet Union and its allies to
advanced Western technology is a matter of great concern to
this Administritiofl. Overt and covert Soviet acquisition,
both in the U.S. ana abroad, of sophisticated equipment and
know-how has significantly enhanced its military production
capabilities and military power. The organization, scope, and
tempo of U.S. Government efforts to stem this flow, though
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-recently increased, is fragmented and insufficient in rela-
to the magnitude of the problem. The Administration
tion
needs a central forum for policy formation, coordination,
and implementation-on this issue if its efforts to counter
this threat are to. achieve maximum effectiveness.
21. Senior Interagency Group on the Transfer of Strategic
Technology
A. The objectives of this group will be:
1. to serve as a central policy-making forum in the
U.S. Government's effort to inhibit acquisition
of militarily-relevant equipment and technologies
by the Soviet Union and its allies,
2. to direct the implementation of policy in this
area,
3.- to oversee and coordinate the activities of the
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interagency community on strategic technology
transfer issues, and
4. to resolve issues elevated to it from any
existing interagency structure.
B. The membership of this group will include represen-
tatives from State, CIA, OSD, JCS, OVP, Commerce, UNA,
DOE, Treasury, Justice, NSC, NSA, ACDA, OSTP,and NASA.
C. The chairmanship of this group will be held by the
Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance,
. Science, and Technology.
III. Interagency Committee on Special Projects in Strategic
Technology Transfer
A. The objectives of this group will be:
1. to identify specific strategic technology problems,
to develop strategies in response, and, with SIG
approval, to coordinate interagency implementation
of these plans,
and in this regard the Committee will propose
specific measures
2. to persuade foreign governments to.strengthen
their control over strategic technology,
3. to raise the priority given to this problem by
U.S. Government representatives abroad,
4. to systematically acquire information on diver-
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sionary systems and attempt to curtail
them.
B. The members of this committee will be State, DOD,
DOE, Commerce, CIA, Customs, NSA, Justice, FBI,
and NSC.
C. The chairmanship of this committee will be held by
the Director of the Bureau of Politico - Military
Affairs in the Department of State.
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