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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64-00014A000100260030-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: September 20, 1956
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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TO: Secretary of State
SS NC 1583, SEPTEMBER 20, 6 P.M.
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TO NEED WIDE RANGE US-UK COOPERATION MANY FIELDS.
PANDED TRADE WITH SINO-SOVIET BLOC, FONOFF SENSITIVE
1. DUE DIVERGENCE UK-US CONCEPT CHINA CONTROLS AND
NARROWER SIGNIFICANCE FORMER ATTACHES COCOM CONTROLS
LK COOPERATION WITH U.S. IN TRADE CONTROL EFFORT IN
FUTURE LARGELY DEPENDENT LEVEL TO WHICH US ABLE TO
SUPPORT TRADE CONTROLS THEY BELIEVED STRATEGPCALLY
2. TO UK MIND, COCOM/CHINCOM CONTROLS SHOULD '8E'IDENTU
CAL AND SO WILL CONTINUE PRESS FOR THIS IDENTITY iu:
SPITE WELL KNOWN US OBJECTION. LAND ROVER/CRAWLER TRACTOR
EMB BELIEVES US AGREEMENT ELIMINATION CHINA DIFFERENTIAL
QUO, PARTICULARLY ANYTHING WHICH WOULD SEEM TO"PUBLIC'
EMBARGO, ALTHOUGH WOULD "CLEAR AIR" AND FACILITATE FATHER
NEGOTIATIONS AIMED TOWARD MAKING MULTILATERAL TRADE
CONTROL EFFORT MORE MEANINGFUL.
3. UNLESS 'UNCLASSIFIED'
A. REF REPRODUCTION FROM THIS
COPY IS PROHIBITED.
State Dept. declassification &. release instructions on file
 A. REF (A) SITUATION (1);
MAINTENANCE CURRENT US POSITION ON CHINA DIFFER-
ENTIAL WOULD PROBABLY HAVE NO IMMEDIATE EFFECT PRESENT
COCOM LISTS, BUT ON LONG TERM WOULD-CERTAINLY?LEAD
DISINTEGRATION CHINCOM WITH RESULTANT DAMAGE TO tOOM
AS INDICATED RESULTS SECRETARY'S APPROACH TO LLOYD
AT MAY NAC MEETING; LIMITED U.S. CONCESSION WOULD PROB-
ABLY HAVE LITTLE EFFECT UK ATTITUDES DESCRIBED ABOVE0
C. SITUATION (3);
UK US MADE SIZABLE ACCOMMODATION TO,MAJORITYWVIEW,
CHI?NCOM CONTROLS WOULD MERELY BE FACADE, AND US9 TO
OBTAIN MUCH BENEFIT FROM ACCOMMODATION, WOULD HAVE.TO
INDICATE RECOGNITION OF THIS TO PC+S. SUBSTANT'IAL?'
ACCOMMODATION ON THESE TERMS MIGHT WELL ENHANCE
US RPT US STANDING WITH PC'S BUT.DIFFERENTIAL REMNANT?
EVEN THOUGH NOT MEANINGFUL, WOULD REMAIN LATENT SOURCE
POSSIBLE FUTURE FRICTION.
D., SITUATION (4);
AND WILL PROPOSE "WHEN TIME SEEMS RIGHTN
TION FONOFF REP RECENTLY INDICATED INFORMALLY ~(tESPONqE
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US MIGHT STILL BE ABLE BUY SHORT TERM INSURANCE (6
MO?) AGAINST FURTHER COCOM RELAXATION, IN THIS CONNEC
QUID PRO,QUO AGREEMENTS IN ADVANCE US ACTION; BUT POSSIBLE D
"484) THAT US AGREEMENT IMMEDIATE DIFFERENTIAL ELI,MIN--
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