Meeting #1385, 25 June 1958: AEC The Commission approved the appointment. of Al Luedeciéas following General Manager upon his retirement from the Air Force f! “7 .a to succeed Fields Hardtack and, inthe interim, appointed Paul Foster as General Manager until Luedecke assumes the duties. Before the Commission at this meeting was a paper, AEC 226/143 needed which recommended declassification of certain effects information by the U.S. Delegation to the Geneva Conference of Experts to begin discussions on 1 July. After discussing in whose hands the authority to declassify should lie, it was said that such a declassification “should "During discussion of the question, Mr. Marshall pointed out that information proposed for declassification relates to tests detection systems and has been requested by Chairman Fisk as possibly needed during the conference period. In addition, Chairman Fisk had stated that the U.S. delegation should also be able to discuss the physical aspects of the Argus if the Soviet Union appeared familiar with this subject."" A lengthy discussion onthis subject followed with some of the following brought up: The DOD's concerns about any release of information; the suggestion that in general the U.S. delegation discuss matters only to the extent that the Soviets had at first brought them up; that the Commission have a physical representative with declassification authority “ at Geneva or delegate the responsibility in the U.S. toa Commission person below the Commission. Further, the discussion ended up agreeing to consider the question following the next day's AEC-MLC Conference. te ptt pm ne eee, was necessary to successfully carry out the mission of the delegation. STN re ai A RENSROE Delegation, Dr. James B. Fisk, that final release of such information Fe anc: eet wie be conditional upon a determination by the Chairman of the U.S.