7 THE FOREIGN SERVICE e A OF THE STATES or AMERICA American Embassy Ankara Turkey June 10 1960 OFFICIAL-INFORMAL CONFIDENTIAL Dear Russ I refer to a Memorandum of Telephone Conversation of May 25 1960 subject Implementation of Atomic Cooperation Agreements with Greeoe and Turkey signed by Alan James The section on Turkey reads Turkey - A statutory determination has been pre- pared and has been concurred in by Defense It has however not been sent to ABC for its concurrence since there are still several problems that the Turks them- selves must solve before they will be ready'tozreceive information under the a reement Certain construction work must be completed Hooper was unable to specify what this was further progress must be made by Turk personnel in learning English and the general state of training of the Turk Army in nuclear matters must be improved before it will be in a position to make effi- cient use of the atomic information When it appears that the Turks are ready the statutory determination will be sent to ABC for its concurrence which presumably will be readily forthcoming What does this mean What are the several problems re- maining to be solved What construction work remains to be done What personnel must learn English If you could get someone to tell me exactly what you want the Turks to do I Russell Fessenden Esquire Deputy Director Office of European Regional Affairs Department of State Washington D C CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL - 2 - will get started on it we would like to see the Agreement implemented as soon as possible Best regards Most sincerely V Lansing Colli Counselor of Emb ssy All 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