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observer program for Operation REDWING, the allocation of materials
for foreign power reactors and the request for a meeting between the
Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Commission,
With regard to the observer program for Operation REDWING
N.r, Strauss said that JCS would like to sponsor a number of U.K, and
Canadian military observers, Mr, Strauss said he had informed Admiral
Radford that if foreign military observers were present at Operation
REDWING, he believed it would also be necessary to invite representatives
of the press, He added that it had been agreed that AEC and DOD would
consider, as soon as possible, the question of observer programs.
Mr. Strauss said he had read to Mr. Wilson and Admiral Radford
the draft letter to the President requesting that he allocate 20,000
kilograms of U-235 for foreign power reactors, and alsoa letter which
would later be sent to the Secretary of Defense on the same subject.
He added that after some discussion, Mr. Wilson and Admiral Radford
had concurred in the request for this allocation.
Mr. Strauss also said that in accordance with a request by
N.r. M.urray, he had asked Admiral Radford if the Joint Chiefs of Staff
would meet with the Commission. He said that Admiral Radford did not
believe such a meeting would be appropriate since the Joint Chiefs of
Staff had been established to advise the President and Secretary of
Defense an? since such a meeting would bypass the MLC which is the
statuccry link between the Comrnission and the Defense Depaxtment,
3.
Department of State Suggestions on Use of Plutonium
Mr. Strauss said the Department of State had requested AEC's
«“ormraents on the following: proposals which would be used as policy
niateinents during negotiations on IAEA:
a, That the U.S. would not use, for weapon purposes,
plutonium derived from the reprocessing of material provided by the U.S. to foreign power reactor projects.
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