L E- Authority bm b if I - 1 Action Control 2E9 23343 SAE FEBRUARY I - I958 FROM PARIS - Info 10 19 AM RMR T03 Secretary of State RTE-TE DEPT DECLASSIPIDATION REVIEW 1 Ivan-3 URctain class'n Changc clasaifyto I SS N0 3600 FEBRUARY 12958 25- Date WQ fz SENT DEPARTMENT 3600 REPEATED INFORMATION BONN 231 ROME 2R9 LIMIT DISTRIBUTION IN DISCUSSING WITH US YESTERDAY ARMS PLANS LALOY SAID POSSIBILITIES OF COOPERATION IN FABRICATION OF ATOMIC WEAPONS IN FRANCE BEEN DISCUSSED DURING BONN TALKS LALOY SAID THAT IT WAS PLANNED THAT THREE POWERS WOULD MARE REPORT TO WEU - VERY SHORTLY ON BONN NEGOTIATIONS AND THAT REPRESENTATIVES OF THREE-IN WASHINGTON WOULD TO DEPARTMENT ON THIS SUBJECT TO LALOY FRENCH FOREIGN OFFICE IS INSISTING THAT SUBJECT OF COOPERATION ON ATOMIC WEAPONS BE SPECIFICALLY INCLUDED IN SINCE FOREIGN OFFICE FEELS THERE HAS BEEN ENTIRELY TOO MUCH i ATTEMPT TO CLOAR THIS ASPECT IN SECRECY ON STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BASIS AND WITH GREAT SERIOUSNESS LALOY SAID THAT IF DEPARTMENT AT HIGHEST 2 LEVEL WISHED TO EXPRESS RESERVATIONS AND CONCERN OVER PROSPECT OF COOPERATION ON MANUFACTURE OF ATOMIC WEAPONS FOLLOWING PRESENTATION OF TRIPARTITIE REPORT IN WASHINGTON FRENCH FOREIGN OFFICE WOULD BE VERY RECEPTIVE TO SUCH VIEWS LALOY ADDED THAT GEN BUCHALET WOULD WELCOME DEPARTMENT OBSERVATIONS OF THIS KIND WE GATHERED SAME MIGHT NOT BE TRUE FOR CHABAN DELMAS AND OTHERS IN DEFENSE MINISTRY BUT THAT FOREIGN OFFICE AS WELL AS BUCHALET WHO OF COURSE IS CLOSE TO GAILLARD SAW MATTERS LALOY EXPLAINED THAT FOREIGN NOTICE IS GREATLY CONCERNED if E3 g 51 OVER PROSPECT THAT WEST GERMANS WILL ACOUIRE THEIR OWN 3g ATOMIC CAPABILITY THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN FRENCH g - mg UNLESS SIRE REPRODUCTION FROM THIS - - Frjigsg coPY Is PROHIBITED 54 Destroyea in Copy Ro s - - an DECLASSIFIED wu TOP SECRET -2 3600 FEBRUARY 1 3 PM FROM PARIS LALOY BELIEVES STRAUSS AND FEM GERMAN MILITARY HARD FOR THIs DESPITE NHAT STRAUSS MAY SAY TO USI WHILE CHANCELLOR CAN BE EXPECTED TO OPPOSE IT IS UNCERTAIN HON NELLSINFORMEO HE IS ON THIS ALSO CHANCELLOR MAY PASS FROM SCENE BEFORE FRENCH DO NOT LIKE IDEA OF PROVIDING ATOMIC WEAPONS TO A NEST GERMANY WHICH IS STILL SEPARATED FROM EAST GERMANY AND THUS SUBJECT TO SPECIAL PRESSURES AND FROM WHICH CHANCELLORIS STABILIZING INFLUENCE WILL BE REMOVED IN COURSE NEXT FEM LALOY SAID HE UNDERSTOOD THAT US POSITION IN THIS SITUATION IS VERY DELICATE AND THAT ANY OBSERVATIONS MADE BY DEPARTMENT TO THREE PONERS WOULD HAVE TO BE PHRASED NITH UTMOST CARE LALOY THOUGHT THAT IT NOULO PERHAPS BE BEST SIMPLY TO EXPRESS RESERVE BY INQUIRING MHETHER THREE POWERS HAD FULLY THOUGHT THROUGH ALL IMPLICATIONS OF ATOMIC NEAPON COOPERATION PLANS NOTING AT SAME TIME DESIRABILITY FROM OVERALL NATO STANDPOINT AS NELL AS THAT QF EFFICIENCY AND COST OF PROFITING FROM UNITED STATES READINESS TO ASSIST IN PROVIDING NECESSARY NUCLEAR MEAPON CAPABILITY AS NE LALOY NAS NOT IN ANY SENSE QUESTIONING FRANCEIS ONN DETERMINATION TO PROCEED NITH AT LEAST LIMITED ATOMIC WEAPONS PROGRAM HE REMARNED AT ONE POINT THAT NHILE HE HAD ONCE OPPOSED HE New MAS COMING TO FEEL IT WAS ESSENTIAL ONLY TO GIVE FRENCH FEELING OF EQUALITY NITH UNITED STATES AND UNITED KINGDOM NITHOUT ITS ONN ATOMIC WEAPONS LALOY THOUGHT FRANCE MOULD BE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT ALLY OF UNITED STATES THAN IT NOULD BE IF SHE HAS SOME WEAPONS OF HER OWN DEPARTMENT MILL APPRECIATE-THAT IT IS ESSENTIAL LALOY UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BE REVEALED AS SOURCE OF ABOVE TOP SECRET 1 Fur 133335 501 l0 ilwans 111M Assvawa' 11 SNolssn3SIa NNOQ Ea EWIL iVHi 1v GHWHOJNI A7103 SVM NEAE iVHi 3191880d woaj ma 1 0095 133338 dOi 459 QWWOWHV I 1 i I This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu