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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005284694
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2008
• Case Number: F-2008-00942
• Publication Date: April 1, 1966

1 April 1966
OCI No. 0283/66
Copy No. 52
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SUMMARY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
APPROVED FOR RELEASE^DATE:
09-24-2008
 GENEVA DISARMAMENT TALKS
The oft-repeated Soviet con-
tention that the possibility of
West,German participation in a
NATO nuclear force rules out suc-
cessful negotiation of a non-
proliferation treaty, as drama-
tized by the Soviet rejection of
the revised US draft treaty, has
also been advanced by some of
the Western members of the Eight-
een Nation Disarmament Committee
(ENDC) in Geneva.
Both the UK and Canadian
delegates, in a recent meeting
of the four Western members, vig-
orously accused Bonn of using
the problem of nuclear sharing
to delay such a treaty. The UK
delegate said that it is in NATO's
interest to produce a plan for
nuclear sharing which is compat-
ible with nonproliferation
whether Bonn likes it or not. The
Italian delegate concurred with
the view that Bonn is holding up
the treaty and commented that if
West Germany gets a role in nu-
clear sharing, Rome wants one too.
To counter anti-German prop-
aganda, which has come chiefly
from the Soviet Union and East
Europe, West Germany has recently
circulated a note stating its
position on disarmament. The
note would allow for a NATO nu-
clear force by specifying that
any nonproliferation treaty
should preclude assignment of nu-
clear weapons only to the na-
tional control of a nonnuclear
state. It also suggests a non-
aggression pact with the Soviet
Union and East Europe.
Most Western delegations
believe the note puts the Germans
in a better light on certain
disarmament issues, but some are
disturbed that the disarmament
recommendations are not tied in
with the substance of the pres-
ent Geneva talks. At Geneva the
note will probably bring about
renewed discussion on some sort
of plan similar to Gomulka's
proposal for the denucleariza
tion of Central Europe. There
will also be a call for nonag-
gression pact discussions. The
Soviets will probably use thee
note as the basis for an attack
on West Germany and on Western
nonproliferation policy.
In the ENDC, article-by-
article discussion of Soviet and
US versions of a nonprolifera-
tion treaty has yet to begin.
The Soviet rejection of the re-
vised US draft, dissension among
the Western delegations on nu-
clear sharing, and weariness of
the delegates after two months
of fruitless debate hinder se-
rious negotiations now.
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