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piss course to
ve followed at Geneva when the talks reconvene on 27 October and he notes
that we will attempt to have the Soviets join us in joint technical
SIscussions on the underground problem with the objective of showing the
Impracticabi lity of any system at the present time.
Further Starboard
states that if the Soviets will not engage in joint discussions, Wadsworth
Til present to the delegation the facts as we see them and present
ocumentation to back up those facts. Starboard says the DMA wants very
vadly for either Al Graves or Bill Ogle to go back for the first month of
these very critical discussions, with the man going as the AEC representative
and Herbst would be there as the technical representative in the same
capacity as before.
In further discussing the men's qualifications for
helping the delegation, it fs noted that durin
g the period that Bil] was
with the delegation, it was one of real doldrums
and almost nothing was
going. on, whereas Al was there during a perio
d when there was somewhat
more activity,
Prior to the session beginning in Geneva, there
will be
work going on in Washington with other agenc
ies where Harold Brown will
head up the preparation of certain papers for
possible joint discussions
and that he. would be the leader of any techn
ical delegation that we would:
send over for these discussions.
This group will meet beginning about the
[5th of October and those involved in the prepa
ration of this documentation
attl include Brown and some representatives
from an
Air Force organization
as well as one or both of the Latters, someb
ody from the CIA, and probably
someone from the Kilfian committee.
Further, Starboard feels that the
ASL man to be sent to Geneva should come
in about the [4th of [5th to be
in on the beginning of these technical talks
.
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