- DECLASSIFIED AC AISIBNID 70- All 0' OFFICII I cum WW Departme t of Statesman RECORD cor EFF-FIRE - 1 r r3345 CENT 54 I #8 Contra Action 196 CEC N1 7 3B Rac d 3523545552 10 1962 EUR lilio'fd BONN 12 11 PM Info t ETATC 53 TO Secretary of State SR 0'3 I538 DECEMBER Io 5PM - a SP SAL an ACTION DEPARTMENT 1538 INFORMATION PARIS 378 LONDON 375 DAC sc1 LIMIT DISTRIBUTION 10 PARIS ALSO PASS USRO STOESSEL AND MCGUIRE INR SINCE JOINT RPT US UK ESTIMATE LAST SUMMER OF POSSIBILITIES OF COOPERATION IN NUCLEAR FIELD EMBTEL 2A3 EMBTEL 6 DEVELOPMENTS HAVE REINFORCED OUR VIEW THAT NO NO SUCH COOPERATION ACTIVELY UNDER CONSIOERATIDN 4 314 3 IN LATE AUGUST ADENAUER PUBLICLY STATED THAT DE GAULL 3 Hm NEVER DISCUSSED SUBJECT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS WITH HIM A 1I66 J SUBSEQUENT DE GAULLE VISIT HERE AS WELL AS COMMUNICATIONS THEREAFTER BETWEEN TWO GOVERNMENTS DID NOT RPT NOT Km AS FAR AS WE HAVE BEEN ABLE ASCERTAIN INVOLVE NUCLEAR SUBJECTS ax AT SAME TIME DE GAULLEIS HAMBURG SPEECH SEPT 7 TO BUNDESWEHR 3 RPT BU UDESWEHR ACADEMY IN ITS REFERENCE TO COOPERATM leH- TARY FIELD PRODUCED CONSIDERABLE SPECULATION THAT HE 5 film NEW TYPES OF COOPERATION INCLUDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS E411 -757 ALTHOUGH FRENCH OFFICIALS PARIS A 6 FLATLY 4 HAT ANY DISCUSSION OF SUCH NUCLEAR COOPERATION TO I AGREE WITH EMBASSY ESTIMATE THAT IT UNDOUBTEDLY a REMAINS SUBJECT RESERVED FOR POSSIBLE CONSIDERATION IN FUTURE 3 ANOTHER SOMEWHAT UNSETTLING FACTOR IS RECURRENT STORY THAT FRENCH MEMORANDUM SENT AFTER VISIT CONTAINED SOME POTENTIAL Iu B POSSIBLY EVEN INTIMATING PROSPECT OF NUCLEAR I 3 COOPERATION AND HENCE WAS CLOSELY HELD BY GERMANS EMBTEL 1188 NEVERTHELESS THERE IS STILL NO RPT NO FIRM EVIDENCE OF FRENCH PUSHING FOR GERMAN COOPERATION IN NUCLEAR N MATTERS This my D returned to RW -sm men no 3 COPY 23 2 wizi v IL DECLASSIFIED Authority IJ Vii-33 3 7 NARA Date 13-9 SECRET -2- 1538 DECEMBER 10 5 PM FROM BONN ON GERMAN SIDE CONTINUING STRONG LINE WHICH US RPT US HAS TAKEN RESPECTING NEED TO BUILD UP CONVENTIONAL FORCES RECENT CUBAN EXPERENCE HIGHLIGHTING PROBLEMS INHERENT IN STRATEGY RELYING PRIMARILY ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS HAVE SOMEWHAT DAMPENED EARLIER GERMAN ENTHUSIASM FOR GREATER NUCLEAR EMPHASIS AND CAPABILITY CURRENT GOVERNMENT CRISIS WHICH HAS REMOVED STRAUSS RPT STRAUSS FROM DEFENSE MINISTRY ALSO AFFECTS SITUATION SINCE HE HAS BEEN MOST PROMINENTLY IDENTIFIED WITH CONCEPT THAT DEFENSE OF FRG RPT FRG ONLY POSSIBLE THROUGH USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AT SAME TIME AS EMBASSY HAS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PROBABLY ALL LEADING POLITICIANS HERE INCLUDING POSSIBLE SUCCESSORS TO STRAUSS MAY BE RELIED UPON TO SEEK ARRANGEMENTS ASSURING EQUAL TREATMENT FOR FRG RPT FRG IN ANY NUCLEAR PROGRAM DEVELOPED WITHIN ALLIANCE SUCH AS CURRENT AMERICAN CONCEPT OF BORNE MLF RPT MLF ALTHOUGH ADENAUER CONTINUES PERSONALLY TO BE ATTRACTED TO BILATERAL FRANCO-GERMAN ARRANGEMENTS IN ALL FIELDS HIS INFLUENCE IS NOT RPT NOT NECESSARILY DECISIVE PARTICULARLY IF FRENCH ARE NOT RPT NOT PRESSING ANY JOINT NUCLEAR PROGRAM EMBASSY UNAWARE OF ANYTHING TO SUBSTANTIATE BLANKENHORN RPT BLANKENHORN COMMENT PARIS I39 THAT GERMANS HAD OFFERED TO BEAR SOME OF COST OF FRENCH FDRCE DE FRAPPE RPT FORCE DE FRAPPE DESPITE HIS COMMENT WHICH CONFORMS TO OUR OBSERVATIONS THAT GERMANS OPPOSED IN PRINCIPLE TO INDEPENDENT FRENCH NUCLEAR FORCE MOST RANKING GERMAN OFFICIALS CLEARLY CONTINUE TO APPRECIATE ADVERSE CONSE- QUENCES WHICH ANY PROGRAM MIGHT HAVE NEVERTHELESS AS REPORTED REFTELS 6 AND 2H3 EMBASSY CONTINUES TO BELIEVE THAT 1 AT SCIENTIFIC LEVEL CONTACTS DO EXIST WHICH HAVE PROBABLY GIVEN COMPETENT GERMAN SCIENTISTS NECESSARY THEORETICAL AND TECHNICAL REQUIRED IN EVENT EITHER JOINT OR INDEPENDENT PROGRAM OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS SHOULD BE AND 2 IF ALLIANCE FAILS SIGNIFICANTLY TO MEET GERMAN SECURITY REQUIREMENTS AS SEEN BY GERMANS FRG RPT FRG COULD STILL BECOME ACTIVELY INTERESTED IN INDEPENDENT OR FRANCO- GERMAN PROGRAM ANOTHER PERTINENT FACT WOULD BE ADMITTED FAILURE TO MEET PROBLEM OF PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN DISARMAMENT SECRET 138338 N114 sum-moo '3Nl1 SIH1 1V SISATVNV 103JJV O1 001 NIVNEH H311V1 JO H109 HV3100N HSI1IH9 GNV HONBHJ H109 BNIG019NI 33803 HV3100N JO SI 11INONWOD 1V0l1 10d 380103 30 GNV SNOI1VI1OB3N O33 1dH 333 SINIV1IH9 3N03100 N0 HDIHM 109 BNIHOLVM S3AH3S3G HDIHM A1l1l9lSSOd 031V13H H3H1HOJ NNOFI 01 asawaoaa -E- 138333 emf 1LT ma VIM gf fa WW 1 I This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu