WEEKLY SUMMARY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005284705
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2008
• Case Number: F-2008-00942
• Publication Date: January 19, 1968

DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
WEEKLY SUMMARY
APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE:
09-24-2008
Secret
49
19 January 1968
No. 0003/68
 US AND USSR REACH AGREEMENT ON NPT TEXT
The US and USSR, after llth-
hour negotiations in Geneva,
placed a nonproliferation treaty
text before the disarmament con-
ference that reconvened there
this week. Agreement on the
draft came after Moscow accepted
the US version of Article III--
on safeguards--the main sticking
point and a provision left blank
in earlier drafts. The Soviets
had previously insisted, against
US wishes, that Article III
should provide for the applica-
tion of only International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
safeguards to nonnuclear states.
If the Soviets had held to this
position, an arrangement that
would allow IAEA to work out a
mutually acceptable safeguards
system with EURATOM would have
been ruled out.
The joint draft represents
several other US-Soviet compro-
mises, including agreement reached
this week on provisions cover-
ing the duration of the treaty
(25 years, after which a confer-
ence will decide its future) and
the method for amending it (by
a majority of its signers, which
must include those who have nu-
clear weapons now and countries
represented on the IAEA board of
governors at the time of amend-
ment). Additional concessions
probably will be sought by some
of the nonnuclear states at
Geneva, but a majority of the
delegates at the conference is
expected to approve submission
of the document to the UN Gen-
eral Assembly in March.
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