WEEKLY SUMMARY

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• Case Number: F-2008-00942
• Publication Date: March 3, 1967

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INTELLIGENCE
WEEKLY SUMMARY
APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE:
09-24-2008
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3 March 1967
No. 0279/67
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destruction of any airplanes and
many rockets of the enemy.-
General Batitsky, the air
defense commander, said his forces
"can reliably protect the coun-
try's territory from an enemy at-
tack from the air," leaving open
the question of countering ICBM
attacks.
Other military leaders were
even less categorical about ABM
prowess. Marshal Chuykov, the
civil defense chief, said flatly
that "it is impossible to inter-
cept completely all modern planes
and even more so rockets launched
through space.Tr- Marshal Bagram-
yan, chief of rear services, said
that "in recent years, a realis-
tic possibility has arisen for us
of effectively carrying out anti-
rocket defenses"; his comment
suggests that, although an ABM
weapon has been developed, it has
not yet become operational.
All in all the ambiguities
and contradictions in these state-
ments suggest that the Soviets have
not made a final decision on wide-
scale ABM deployment, perhaps be-
cause the question has not been
settled within the leadership.
There seems to be agreement, how-
ever, not to foreclose any options
until it can be better judged what
price the US would pay to haves
USSR turn away from ABMs.
DISARMAMENT COMMITTEE AWAITS DRAFT NONPROLIFERATION TREATY
The Eighteen Nation Disarma-
ment Committee (ENDC) which re-
convened on 21 February has little
to show for its two weeks of re-
newed activity.. The USSR has so
far declined to join with the US
in tabling the draft formulations
to ban the spread of nuclear
weapons. The delay in ENDC con-
sideration of the draft will al-
low those Western and nonaligned
countries which have reservations
about the treaty additional time
to concert their positions.
Although. the nonaligned mem-
bers of the ENDC are being briefed
as to the main provisions of the
draft treaty, some of them re-
sent having had no part in the
negotiations so far and view the
draft treaty as a discriminatory
one drawn up by the two chief nu-
clear powers. India, usually
the spokesman for the nonaligned
nations in the ENDC, considers
the treaty one-sided and claims
it in effect asks the nonnuclears
to give up their right to develop
nuclear weapons while the nuclear
powers give up nothing.
Many of the objections
raised by the nonaligned powers
are similar to those of the West-
ern Allies. Italy has taken the
lead in voicing these objections
.and at an ENDC meeting this week
took the position that the mem-
bers must draft an "effective
and equitable" nonproliferation
treaty (NPT) which would provide
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a just balance between the nu-
clear and nonnuclear powers and
would not hinder the scientific
and technological progress of
the latter.
A major stumbling block to
the draft treaty remains the
problems raised within the West-
ern Alliance by the provision
of nuclear safeguards. Several
of the EURATOM countries continue
to consider International Atomic
Energy Authority (IAEA) safe-
guards discriminatory against
EURATOM members, and it is be-
coming increasingly clear that
the arguments are evolving along
political rather than technical
lines.
There is also concern that
the safeguards issue could be-
come another obstacle to the
UK's accession to the Common
Market. Dutch and Italian of-
ficials continue to make the
point that Paris is maneuvering
to be able to claim that London
is showing "too little concern
for European integration" in
its support of the treaty. The
British press has in fact taken
notice of the difficulties
within EURATOM and the delicate
situation in which the UK has
been placed.
In what can be considered a
rather rare and united undertaking
vis-a-vis foreign policy ques-
tions, several subordinate com-
mittees preparing for the European
Parliament meeting--scheduled
for 13-18 March in Strasbourg--
have been sharply critical of
the NPT and especially the safe-
guards provision. The US has
been singled out in particular
in the committee debates as at-
tempting to destroy EURATOM and
observers believe that this anti-
American tone will be repeated
in the full parliamentary ses-
NATO LOOKS TO ITS FUTURE
During the next six months
or so, NATO will conduct the
most extensive self-examination
it has ever attempted. At its
22 February meeting the North
Atlantic Council (NAC) formally
approved the Belgian plan to es-
tablish a special group of na-
tional representatives to under-
take a long-range study of NATO's
political purposes and tasks.
This activity will be in addi-
tion to other studies already
planned or under way, including
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