CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A025300160002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 5, 1973
• Content Type: REPORT

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WESTERN EUROPE: Consultations on Atlantic principles.
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*WESTERN EUROPE: CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN US AND
EUROPEAN OFFICIALS IN NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON LAST
WEEK CLEARED THE AIR SOMEI.IHAT ON PREPARATIONS FOR
DRAFTING DECLARATIONS OF ATLANTIC PRINCIPLES. SEV-
ERAL PROBLEMS REMAIN, HOWEVER, WITH THE DRAFTS BEING
READIED IN THE EC AND NATO.
EC MEMBERS ARE STILL SKEPTICAL ABOUT INCLUDING
A REFERENCE TO JAPANrS ROLE IN AN ~~ATLANTIC~~ DEC-
LARATION. THE EC REPRESENTATIVES WHO MET IN NEW
YORK LAST GJEEK SEEMED TO PREFER DEVELOPING A DIA-
L000E BETWEEN THE NINE AND JAPAN, WHILE THE US WOULD
CULTIVATE ITS OI~JN RELATIONS WITH TOKYO. THREE AL-
TERNATIVES WERE TENTATIVELY REJECTED ASSOCIATING
JAPAN C1ITH THE US-EC DECLARATION, CAPPING THE US-EC
AND THE NATO STATEMENTS WITH A THIRD DECLARATION,
AND DEVELOPING A SEPARATE DECLARATION OF INDUSTRIAL-
IZED NATIONS.
THE EXTENT TO l~1HICH SECURITY QUESTIONS SHOULD
BE MENTIONED IN THE US-EC STATEMENT AND ECONOMIC
QUESTIONS SHOULD BE TREATED IN THE NATO DECLARATION
ALSO REMAINS AT ISSUE. THE FRENCH DISLIKE BEING
T00 SPECIFIC ABOUT ECONOMIC QUESTIONS EVEN IN THE
EC DRAFT AND, OF COURSE, REMAIN OPPOSED TO DETAILED
EC REFERENCES TO SECURITY. NEARLY ALL OF" THE EURO-
PEAN ALLIES EXCEPT FRANCE STILL FEEL THAT A NATO
DECLARATION SHOULD GO BEYOND DEFENSE AND SECURITY
MATTERS.
WITH RESPECT TO DEFENSE AND SECURITY ISSUES,
HOWEVER, THE FRENCH PRESENTED IN A NATO MEETING ON
3 OCTOBER A DRAFT THAT WAS STRIKINGLY POSITIVE IN
RECOGNIZING EUROPEAN DEFENSE RESPONSIBILITIES.
ONE SECTION, FOR EXAMPLE, LpJOULD PLEDGE THE EUROPEAN
ALLIES TO MAKE THE CONTRIBUTION NECESSARY TO MAIN-
TAIN THE ~~COMMON DEFENSE.~~ ANOTHER SECTION NOTES
THAT THE PROGRESS OF TFiE EC TOL~JARD POLITICAL UNITY
SHOULD, ~ ~I~JHEN T{iE TIME COMES, r ~ HAVE ~ BENEFICIAL
EFFECTS~r ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS THE EC COUNTRIES MAKE
T-0 EUROPE~S DEFENSE.
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BOTIi THE NATO ALLIES AND THE EC MEMBERS ARE NOt~J
AI~JAITING A MORE SPECIFIC US INPUT FOR THE DRAFTING
PROCESS. SECRETARY GENERAL LUNS IS ANXIOUS TO SUB-
MIT A DRAFT BASED ON ALL THE NATIONAL CONTRIEUTIONS
IN NATO, ALTHOUGH HE AGREED TO FOLD OFF UNTIL NEXT
UEEK TO ALLOl~7 FURTHER TIME FOR DISCUSSION OF THE
FRENCH DRAFT. A NEIJ US- NG IS SET FOR 18
O("TORER IN COPENHAGEN.
*Because of the sf~u~rtage of time? fir prc~~aration of this item. the analytic
interpretation presenCe~i hcrc has bccn prcxlucc~i by the Central [ntelli-
gence Agency without the participation of the Defense Intelligence
Agency, DepartrY~ent of Defense.
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