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seeeee Mr. Olsen said he favored condemnation proceedings as a
suitable means for acquiring the mineral rights but questioned the
timing of the proceedings in relation to the Geneva negbdtiations.''
After
further discussion, the Commission deferred action pending resolut.on
of the Geneva talks.
Meeting #1735, 9 May 1961:
At this meeting, two subjects concerning funding -- May 61 planning
estimates and future budget planning-- were addressed in some detail
and these discussions are extracted for our files.
Meeting #1736, 9 May 1961:
For some time, discussion had addressed the exchange of atomic
information with the French Government, just as there were agreements
with the governments of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Greece, and
others, on such exchange of information.
The beginning of French testing
in 1960 made the matter of coming to an agreement with France a
harder problem and some of the discussion in this meeting, prior to
the formal agreement with France,is indicative with these problems.
Central to the problem was guarding all information that was restricted
data from transmittal to the French,
information could be transmitted.
whereas apparently any defense
Thus the question of the French getting
weapons information from us boiled down to making sure that the
information we wanted to guard was RD and not DI.
Specifically addressing
the agreement which was in the final stages of negotiation, ''Mr.
Kratzer
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