rege ‘% 22 opr 4 © i Po A —— Approved For Release 2003 baiz c Ropretetreanoosoonsoots—s if I pa a p t i weaugey atn — 1 2715768 secret tt j rmeavernzmenzat Recrouat GRoU® — P gol 6 ror susore nor a state © I — review s completed Minutes of Meeting of February 14 1968 f 33 1 1 I 4 hatemans — John M Leddy It vrcocut — Dob — M Halperin Me Lehmann Dr Larsen © 3 4 MEC — Comntssioner Tope Me Hudginey Me Boger f 14 — acs — Brig General warshel1 6C — — i f ssxiA toma GEO 4 13 f wt — ie Fried He Keeny p L 4 — usta Ne Held % lie fop G ma — Me Trippe 44 A f d 1 tur — ie Berlack j ht £ ACDM Me Van Doren 5D idle EUR mHL — Me Cheslaw — W EUR REN Me Collins t I P EWR Mr Beaudey — i i § Conclustons sop on $18 Dif 1 the meeting noted that the minutes of the meeting of 117 Januszy 10 had been approved as amended i Ries H 2 The ING EUR agreed that Part 14 C Preforred v8 l generally in substance 4 BFL Position of the paper was acceptable to the menbers but that « it should be redrafted to reflect certain clarifications unica 13 vere developed during the course of the meeting The redraft vould be etxculated for approval prior to sending the paper to 18 I RCR 12 the S10 with the request for approval of the course of ection 1 proposed s 1 8‘ © Agel £08 % Aege foe 5 Approved For eeass 2000227 cnhopreretremmojossomtonies s PH y niin seienbiedie int inon het ret rote drama mean P bros 0B 0 comenininnin sm ann eni _ L020 be olpanibi inne terme C ntfirertine rommool con sna aos rap f Approved For Release 2oosomir cin Roprororreanonossonsootss — a Discussion 2 i Me Choslaw explained the reason for considering this poper noting that we must make up our minds whether to continue this @ 4 arrangement beyond the present cut—off date of 1969 during the f course of the present year He also noted that the Beittsh have — f put in a request for submarine fuel which would be deltvered i after the termination date Our response to this request will ¥ 4 depend on our baste stance toward the U K on nuclear matters indicating Hie Cheslaw cfted statements by Defense Minister Healy that the Uk dn determined to setain dee nucteay capabtHty — To 4d dnd 2 C0 f 4 U S interest to assfst them in this course f I The Chatzman stated that we have three poséib ltfes wo _ a can urge the British to expand their nuclear capability we can f attempt to force then out of the nuclear business or we can ‘ i proceed to cooperate with the British letting them set their — orn pace ither to wind—doin or to Gp—gzade thet capability I i ite Halperin and Me Keeny both noted tliat the paper called I ¥ for us to help the U K maintain thete nucleoe capability n 1 oA i as near irst rate condition as possible Mes 4t our intention I to assist the British in undertaking p nidentsatton which would 7 ¥ Introduce them to the most advanced state of the art De Lassen § remarked that 1€ the U merely intended to keep Ato present — nuclear force aldve for prestige purposes the U S¢ would hava a ©— poosive role merely assisting them on requeot« ‘On the other lien aq fy Approved For Release Soosiomsr cin noerororisenanns0n300133 © ae too aa ii aaa org i gorefco re orie room onenmemiremsemeemied 3 ff if the U % wanted to fmprove its capability ve woild Lace the is I ig d question of dectding whether to give them information which I £ vould fnvolve inportant security considerations 4 $ We Leddy pointed out that the intent of this paper was © 1 1 i to provide general poltcy guidance for U 8 officials and that f it was not dntonded to spell out in detafL what should be — H I provided to the Britsh in specific cases He concurred in Comisstoner Tape‘s comment that the intent is to Leave the u Inftlative with the British Po f lie Van Doren commented that everyone was agreed that i i the agreement should be renewed since t provided a framework a b under which opecfie programs could be dealt with on a case 1 I3 by—case basts — h # ‘‘the D0D positon as outlined by Dr Larson was that ve m 1 should be prepared to asstst at the present Level or contribute to a stgni¢fcant faprovement of the U K capabflity provided a 4 we rctained the right to determine ou contrtbuttons strictly j 4 on a case—by—case basts ‘The Chairman agreed that this was clearly the intent of the paper and said that the IRG appeared i to be in ‘agreement that a ve were prepared to ‘respond to b british requests which in turn would depend on vhat the British thenseives were prepared to put Anto theix program b the Re g i U S response vould be subject to findnertal security considerations pial Aboroved rot relcise soouiaiky owmosrbtorreandntocotiborss y KX I hos ay pean e d onn hme do nt gen g n tos «hus Approved For Release 200si0ai2t ci Roprororrearoonsonoso01s—3 #9 q ood and c the question of any mew weapons system such as Poseidon g © soul be desided outaiie the agroomenty which deake only with 0 weapons information and matertals asststance Pug 1 Me Keeny cauttoned that the broad Language of the paper # 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