C -W May 1963 NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO 241 T0 Thu Secntm of Ema Tho Director of Coastal Intelligence Thu Chairman Atomic Energy Commlasian SUBJECT Report an Even Gums Diffusion Plant The President muted It attached report He in uld like ts have u Directar a Central Intelligence together the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commlualon prepare immediately a report and an appraisal ct thi- project On the basis of tho report an tho Secretary of States should coordinate pulley ram-mandamus for the President McGeorga Bane-y CC Mrs Lincoln Mr Bundy Mr Johnson NSC Files - Hula 3% 8KLEX Oily gm 0 FRANCE a Peru he- asked West Germany or omoiel and technical nuisance to complete the lorroletto moon dliiosioo pint b rise to about $1 billion god technical soap have set hook the mooted completion date to 1967 The French ue counting on the output of thin pint or that wooed-generation noel-u force bond on mantle-delivered weapons West Barman o lciolo any they have not decided on their answer to the French approach for nancial assistance A group of Wont German experts thinks that the Gamma might be asked to put in In much as $250 million Enoch 39 German oifiolelo deny tint Joint nucleu- reueroh and duelopm out is contemplated with one German o lciai ouyiog Germany is intereetod only in no additional non-US source of enriched uranium fuel German technical aoeiltaoco probably could be covered under the broad nicotine-technical provisions of the proposed Frmco-Gomeo Trouy a Paris reportedly declined an Italian offer of two were ago but we understand he now reopened the question with the Sources Messaga from Bonn 2878 Ail-gram from Bros-eels ECBUS A-634 Meeoago to Rome 2187 E O 12958 Sec 3 6 'Uv mmJa-m Millie                     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