sd wa te ha Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Chester Clifton, ‘ and General Military Aide to the President. Meeting #1707, 1 March 1961: Among the Commission actions taken was approval of the "AEC-DO» agreement for implementation of joint AEC-DOD nuclear weapon vulnerability assessment program." Also at this meeting, Carl Walske was present from Geneva anda lengthy discussion of test cessation negotiations took place, a copy of which is in our files. Meeting #1711, 10 March 1961: Noted at this meeting was a session of the JCAE later that day at which Mr. McCloy would testify and the discussion would address the Geneva Test Ban discussions. Attending from the AEC were Commissioner Graham and Spofford English. Meeting #1721, 5 April 1961: The following is extracted from a discussion of ''Acquisition of Salt Dome site for Vela Uniform experiments.'' underway in Geneva, Mr. "In view of the current negct’ations Olsen said proceedings should not be initiated for acquiring land for underground experiments. He inquired if it would be possible to proceed with the drilling of the shafts and underground preparations without condemnation proceedings...... In answer toa question. from Mr. Seaborg, the General Manager said experiments in the Mississippi Salt Dome were dependent upon the additional 10 million 118

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