Arms Control and Disarmament
241. Report of Meeting
Source: Johnson Library, Clifford Papers, Arms Control on the Seabed (1), Box 20. Top Secret. No drafting information appears on the source text. A handwritten notation on the source text reads: “latest draft.” There are many brief handwritten inserts throughout the text in addition to those cited below.
242. Record of Meeting of the Committee of Principals
Source: Johnson Library, Clifford Papers, Arms Control on the Seabed (2), Box 20. Top Secret. No drafting information appears on the source text, although Sidney Graybeal (ACDA) and C. Normand Poirier (ACDA) are listed as reporting officers on the attached list of participants. The meeting was held in the Secretary of State’s Conference Room.
243. Draft Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Johnson
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 383, Central Policy File: FRC 85 A 83, Deputies—6/4/68, “Arms Control on the Seabed.” Secret; Noforn. The source text was submitted under cover of a June 4 memorandum from Foster to the Deputies to the Committee of Principals informing them that, in accordance with the decision reached at the June 3 Committee of Principals meeting that he was forwarding for their concurrence a memorandum in draft form that recommended a U.S. position on arms control on the seabed.
244. Letter From the Deputy Secretary of Defense (Nitze) to the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Foster)
Source: Johnson Library, Clifford Papers, Arms Control on the Seabed (2), Box 20. Secret; Noforn.
246. Memorandum From the Under Secretary of State (Katzenbach) to the Deputy Secretary of Defense (Nitze)
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18-6. Secret.
247. Letter From Chairman Kosygin to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Intelligence File, Arms Control Messages Exchanged Between President Johnson and Chairman, USSR, Vol. I, Box 11. The date is the day the letter was received.
248. Letter From President Johnson to Chairman Kosygin
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Head of State Correspondence File, Pen Pal Correspondence, Kosygin.
249. Letter From Chairman Kosygin to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Intelligence File, Arms Control Messages Exchanged Between President Johnson and Chairman, USSR, Vol. I, Box 11.
251. Memorandum From the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Foster) to the Members of the Committee of Principals
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 383, Central Policy File: FRC 85 A 83, Committee of Principals Memo dated July 2, 1968 re “Cutoff.” Secret; Limited Distribution.
252. Record of Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Committee of Principals
Source: Johnson Library, Clifford Papers, Talks on Reduction of Strategic Nuclear Weapons, Box 17-18. Secret. No drafting information appears on the source text. The meeting was held in the Secretary of State’s Conference Room. Another record of this meeting is in Seaborg, Journal, Vol. 17, pp. 18, and 24-25.
253. Summary of Meeting
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 383, Central Policy File: FRC 85 A 83, Working Group-Strategic Arms Talk-Meeting, July 10, 1968. Secret; Exdis. No drafting information appears on the source text. A July 9 date on the source text has been corrected by hand to read July 10.
254. Letter From the Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council (Cleveland) to Secretary of State Rusk
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18. Secret; Exdis. The source text is Tab B to a July 17 memorandum from Springsteen to Secretary Rusk.
255. Letter From the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (Seaborg) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Disarmament, ENDC, vol. III, Box 13. Confidential.
257. Special National Intelligence Estimate
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Intelligence File, Arms Limitation Talk, Box 11. Top Secret; [code word]; Controlled Dissem; Limited Distribution.
258. Letter From Secretary of State Rusk to the Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council (Cleveland)
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18. Secret; Exdis. The source text is Tab A to a July 17 memorandum from Springsteen to Secretary Rusk.
259. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 18-6. Confidential. Drafted by Edwin D. Crowley (EUR/GER) and approved in S/S on August 5. The source text is labeled “Part IV of V.” The meeting took place in the Secretary’s office.
260. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Rostow Files, Strategic Missile Talks, Box 11. Secret. A handwritten notation on the source text indicates that the memorandum was received at 12:32 p.m.
261. Letter From Chairman Kosygin to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Intelligence File, Arms Control Messages Exchanged Between President Johnson and Chairman, USSR, Vol. 1, Box 11. No classification marking. A typed notation on the source text identifies it as an unofficial translation.
262. Intelligence Memorandum
Source: Johnson Library, Clifford Papers, Kosygin-Talks with Soviet Union (2), Box 22. Secret; No Foreign Dissem. At the bottom of the first page is the following typewritten note: “This memorandum was produced solely by CIA. It was prepared by the Office of Strategic Research and coordinated with the Offices of Current Intelligence, Economic Research, and National Estimates.”
263. Letter From President Johnson to Chairman Kosygin
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Rostow Files, Kosygin, Box 10. No classification marking. Attached to the source text is a July 30 note from Bromley Smith to the President which reads: “This is the retyped letter containing the revisions you suggested in paragraph 2.” Other drafts of this letter have not been found.
264. Paper Prepared by the Interagency Working Group
Source: Johnson Library, Clifford Papers, Kosygin-Talks with Soviet Union (2), Box 22. Top Secret; Nodis. According to a memorandum from Fisher to the Executive Committee of the Committee of Principals, July 31 (reproduced in Seaborg, Journal, Vol. 26, pp. 341-342), this paper is a revision of an earlier draft sent to the Executive Committee of the Committee of Principals on July 26. A copy of the July 26 draft is in Johnson Library, Clifford Papers, Kosygin-Talks with Soviet Union (2), Box 22. A revision of the July 26 paper, marked “ACDA-2956/Rev.2,” dated July 30, and containing proposed last-minute changes by DOD, is attached to a memorandum from Shaw (G/PM) to Bohlen, July 31, with recommendations on the positions Bohlen should take on these proposed changes at the interagency working group meeting that afternoon. (Department of State, Central Files, DEF 12)
265. Memorandum for the Record
Source: Johnson Library, Clifford Papers, Kosygin-Talks with Soviet Union (2), Box 22. Confidential; Exdis. Drafted by General Wheeler on August 6.
266. Notes of Meetings
Source: Seaborg, Journal, Vol. 17, pp. 128, and 132-133. No classification marking.
267. Memorandum From Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr., of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Special Assistant (Rostow)
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Intelligence File, Arms Limitation Talk, Box 11. Top Secret.
268. Memorandum From Secretary of Defense Clifford to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Intelligence File, Arms Limitation Talk, Box 11. Top Secret; Sensitive.
269. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Intelligence File, Arms Limitation Talk, Box 11. Top Secret; Nodis.
270. Letter From Secretary of Defense Clifford to Secretary of State Rusk
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 330, OASD/ISA Files: FRC 72 A 1498, 388.3, August-December 1968. Confidential.