FRENCH REQUEST FOR DATA ON THE LOCATIONS OF SOVIET MISSILE SITES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-140-1-27-5
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: August 6, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
6 August 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
SUBJECT : French Request for Data on the
Locations of Soviet Missile Sites
1. This memorandum informs you of a French request
for data on the locations of Soviet missile sites and describes
the action I intend to take.. _ I am raising this matter with you
to determine whether you wartt 'to use this particular action to
foster some other military or -political objective in your dealings
with the French.
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2. Major General Jarry (the French Defense Attache in
Washington) has transmitted a request for these data from General
Moran (Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces) to Vice Admiral
de Poix. Specifically, two types of data are requested:
Locations of surface-to-air missile sites in the
USSR west of longitude 50? east, ostensibly for
assisting the French in plotting tracks for their
strategic aircraft strike force.
Locations of MRBM and IRBM sites in the USSR
west of 750 east, which can reach France.
3. General Jarry has indicated to Admiral de Poix that
if our response is favorable, the French would give positive
consideration to some appropriate information in return. In
fact, the French have very recently become forthcoming by
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4. I Intend to approve the French request for the following
reasons:
- General Brown and Admiral de Poix recommend
the French request be satisfied.
--- The data requested is regularly passed to NATO
components.
--- The Soviets certainly know that we have this
information.
-- There is little likelihood that providing these data
to the French will jeopardize the intelligence source
from which the information is obtained.
In order to protect the true accuracy of our information, I shall
authorize the release of data on these locations to the nearest
minute, even though the data we provide to NATO is to the nearest
second. Admiral de Poix assures me that locations to the nearest
minute will meet the needs of the French Armed Forces.
5. If you wish to use this action in connection with some
other relationship with the French, please let me know. If I do
.not hear from you by 12 August, I shall inform Admiral de Poix
of my approval on that date.
cc: Admiral de Poix
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