107. Minutes of a Verification Panel Meeting1
Washington, October 19, 1970, 11:05 a.m.–12:50 p.m.
SUBJECT
- SALT
PARTICIPANTS
- Chairman—Henry A. Kissinger
- State
- John N. Irwin II
- Ronald I. Spiers
- Raymond Garthoff
- Seymour Weiss
- Defense
- David Packard
- Paul Nitze
- Gardiner Tucker
- CIA
- LTG Robert E. Cushman
- Carl E. Duckett
- JCS
- Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
- LTG Royal B. Allison
- Attorney General John N. Mitchell
- ACDA
- Gerard C. Smith
- Spurgeon Keeny
- Philip J. Farley
- NSC Staff
- Dr. K. Wayne Smith
- Helmut Sonnenfeldt
- Col. Jack N. Merritt
- William Hyland
- R. James Woolsey
- Jeanne W. Davis
SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS
It was agreed:
- … that the next major step should be for the Soviets to react to our proposal2 or to table a proposal of their own;
- … to prepare a list of proposed adjustments to our proposal in three categories: (1) those the Soviets would construe as easing our position; (2) those they would construe as extending our position; and (3) those in the grey area in between;
- … that the Working Group would: (a) prepare within the week a paper on the question of forward-based aircraft; (b) prepare a paper on transfers of weapons or technology to third countries; (c) consider whether an agreement on accidents could be concluded separately from [Page 351] a general SALT agreement,3 and whether Soviet interest in an agreement on accidents might help get the more comprehensive agreement;4 and (d) consider further the question of notification with respect to provocative attacks;5
- … to continue to look into improvement of communications with relation to notification on provocative attacks;
- … State would submit to the Working Group a paper on consultation with our allies.
[Omitted here are minutes of the meeting.]
- Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, NSC Institutional Files (H-Files), Box H–107, Verification Panel Minutes Originals 1969–3/8/72. Top Secret. The meeting was held in the White House Situation Room. A handwritten notation at the top of the first page reads: “Put in my SALT book.”↩
- See footnote 2, Document 104.↩
- In the margin next to point “c” is the handwritten comment: “No!!”↩
- At the end of the phrase is the handwritten comment, “Part of this.”↩
- After point “d” the word “misstatement” is handwritten in the margin.↩