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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200090022-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: July 24, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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with Russia.
Actually, however, Administration lieutenants have been
greasing the ways for weeks. Highly placed informed sources say
the President is now convinced that be not only can win Senate
ratification but win in a big way.
One of the reasons for the
confidence, it was reported, is
that some powerful Republican
leaders have privately indicated
that they will go to bat for a
simple test-ban agreement, if
necessary, to swing the needed
two-thirds vote.
Former President Eisen-
:bower, for example, relayed his.
1 commitment some time ago to
1 disarmament director William C.
Foster. He told Foster that if
the Administration ever needed
his help on the-testing issue, he/-
would supply it. Officials said
would
privately that Ike is prepares,
if he has to, to lay his con-
siderable prestige on the line
1 nbiiely in Senate hearings on
the issue.
Although some people have
ritiparently forgotten the fact,
.(.'rie? idea of a partial test ban
v: as first proposed by Ike in a
letter to Premier Khrushchev in
A toil, 1959. 'And- he had the
support of the late John Foster
ii State although ailing and near death.
Indeed, Ike felt so strongly about the necessity of somehow
},raking the atomic arms race that he later ordered American
testing halted without any kind . of a deal with Russia. And, even
though . this one-way, moratorium went sour, friends say be still
gels strongly about the need for a test ban.
Ike, however, is,., slot the only important Republican whom
Administration strategists say they can call -on in case of need,
(it' even may thout need. Another is said to be Allen Dulles,
chief of theCTA under Ike and for. a tame under Kennedy. Still
another namotrytted down on some Administration lists is Henry
Cabot Lodge, GOP Vice Presidential candidate in 1960 and
Kennedy's recent choice to be ambassador to South Viet Nani.
Dangers Make Ban a Bipartisan Issue
As the U. S. ambassador to the UN during nearly all of Ike's
administration, Lodge repeatedly cited the merits t$ a test ban. He
argued that even an uninspected ban on atmortpheric blasts only
,would be an important first step toward wider .preements and
"immediately reduce the fears of fallout."
The key fact about the looming debate over a test ban, then, is
that it is essentially a bipartisan issue. Two Presidents-one Repub-
aind one Democratic have gazed down the long corridor of the
~,iu tic arms competition and recoiled from the'dangers it poses for
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