SIG MEETING SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: April 15, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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United States Department of State
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April 15, 1983
UNCLASSIFIED
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Senior Interagency Group No. 23
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- Mr. Donald P. Gregg
- Mr. Michael O. Wheeler
- Mr. John Tierney
- Mr. Thomas B. Cormack
- Mrs. Helen Robbins
- Mr. William von Raab
- COL John Stanford
- Mr. William Vitale
- Mr. Edward O'Malley
- LTC Dennis Stanley
- Mr. Roger Clegg
- b:r. Kenneth Pedersen
- Mr. Frank Irons
- Mr. Alton Keel
- Dr. George Keyworth
- Mr. David Pickford
= Amb. Harvey Feldman
- Mr. Dennis Whitfield
SUBJECT: SIG Meetin5 Summary of Conclusions
Attached is the Summary of Conclusions for~the SIG Mee}ing
on Transfer of Strategic Technology held on April 8, 1983.
~~arles Hill
Executive Secretary
1. Summary of Conclusions.
2. List of Participants.
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April 13, 1983
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Senior Interagency Group No. 23
PARTICIPANTS: See List Attached
DATE AND TIME: April 8, 1983, 2:30 p.m.
PLACE: Deputy Secretary's Conference Room 7219, Department of
State
SUBJECT: SIG Meeting on Transfer of Strategic Technology,
April 8
SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS
Chairman Schneider opened the SIG meeting with a reference to
recent leaks of COCOM business to a European newspaper and an
American weekly magazine. He appealed for discipline in protect-
ing the confidentiality of COCOM deliberations.
With reference to seven interim progress reports before the
SIG members for review, the Chairman called attention to NSSD 1-83
and asked for more rapid work in the groups handling the public
awareness program and .the problem of hostile access to western
computer networks. To effect the work program set forth in NSSD
1-83, a steering group under Gus Weiss was asked to organize the
effort. Their plan aims at a short NSDD draft covering reports
from separate working groups on organization, policy, and special
issues. The groups are to exist only for the duration of the
drafting exercise.. Gus Weiss was asked to report monthly to the
SIG on their progress. The SIG approved the work program and
structure.
Dale Tahtinen briefed the SIG on the list review process, the
ad hoc committee on Other High Technology, and planning for the
COCOM HLM in Paris, April 28-29. He stressed the importance of
modernizing the COCOM Secretariat. The Commerce representative
pressed for maximum HLM progress on the proposals tabled by the
U.S. side.
The Chairman raised the matter of missile technology controls,
noting that new regulations under the Export Administration Act
would be necessary to impose foreign policy controls on dual use
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technology and equipment pertaining to nuclear-capable miss-files.
The chairman asked for early completion of the DOD study of
critical technologies so that the IG on Missile Technology and
eventually the EDAC could address the matter.
On the subject of technology transfer to India, it was noted
that a breach of security in the Omega case may have occurred.
The SIG debated the merits of seeking a technology transfer agree-
ment with India, Defense opposing the idea on grounds that a
common U.S.-Indian interest in protecting U.S. technology could
not be substantiated as the premise of such an agreement.
Commerce and CIA supported Defense, and the question was remanded
for further study. '
The Chairman noted that a new U.S. policy on visa controls was
official as of April 8 and would be announced confidentially to
allies at the HLM April 28-29. An interagency meeting was called
for April 19 to decide the text, venue and form of a public
announcement. Responding to a question from the FBI representa-
tive, the Chairman affirmed that these particular controls applied
to the USSR and Warsaw Pact countries, not as yet to the PRC.which
was the subject of an NSDD being drafted in another forum.
CIA representative Robert Gates briefed on the recent French
expulsion of 47 Soviet operatives. He noted that despite the
impressive number (66) of KGB officers expelled from Europe since
December, the French measures had not targetted GRU or East Bloc
operatives, or agents operating from the USSR itself. These
categories remained untouched.
Under other business, Defense raised the desirability of
terminating U.S. participation in the IIASA in Vienna. The Chair-
man suggested examination of the question for the next SIG meeting.
ACTION ASSIGNMENTS
1. Gus Weiss undertook to supervise and report monthly on
interagency work in compliance with NSSD 1-83. Three working
groups will support the steering group which he chairs.
2. Defense undertook to complete its work on critical tech-
nologies related to nuclear-capable missiles. This study is a
necessary input to IG work and EDAC consideration of dual use
equipment and technology controls. ..
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3. Interested IG members were asked to participate in a
Special Projects group meeting April 19 to prepare a public
announcement or release of the new visa controls policy.
4. State will report to the SIG on the matter of continued
U.S. participation in IIASA.
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SIG MEETING ON TRANSFER OF STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY
April 8, 1983 - 2:30 p.m.
Deputy Secretary's Conference Room 7219, State Department
PARTICIPANTS
Defense
Under Secretary William Schneider, Chairman
Mr. Mark Schneider, S/P
Mr. Stefan Halper, PM
Mr. Louis Warren, PM
Mr. Bob Davie, PM
Mr. Dale Tahtinen, EB
Mr. Robert Strand, INR
Mr. Michael Marks, T
Mr. Tain Tompkins, S/S-S (Notetaker)
Mr. Gus Weiss
Dr. Arthur Aianfredi
Mr. Arch Turrentine
Mr. W.A. Searle
Mr. David Schlechty
Mr. Scott Sullivan
Mr. Rudy Nuissl
Mr. George Corcoran
Mr. William Rudman
Mr. Stephen Bryen
BG Bill Klein
Mr. R.A. Witter
Mr. Michael Maloof
Energ Mr. James Culpepper
Justice
Air . John Rooney
Mr. Lyle Theisen
CDR William Truesdell
Air. Mark Richard
A'lr . Joseph Tafe
Mr. Douglas Norton
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OSTP
Treasury
USTR
Mr. Richard Nicholson
Ms. Ruth Greenstein
Mr. Lou Montulli
Mr. Wallace Kornack
Mr. S. Canner
Mr. Seymour Bolten
Mr. William Triplett
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