Meeting #1385, 25 June 1958:
AEC
The Commission approved the appointment. of Al Luedeciéas
following
General Manager upon his retirement from the Air Force
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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
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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.
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was necessary to successfully carry out the mission of the delegation.
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Delegation, Dr. James B. Fisk, that final release of such information
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be conditional upon a determination by the Chairman of the U.S.