TOP sECHB SENSITIVE SYS'lE II 9 0071 DICPA�TMENT OF 8TATE W ORANßUM FOR 'UBJ C'l' HINGT QN p9� THE P' ESI DEN'1' W· lter J StoeJ·J A c l ing Pr- k c C' ar l�l Aal ng 1 FEB 1982 Negot a tions witb 1 hA Uni1 e4 Kin9dPTr1 o n P ossible Puc baee of TRIDENJI D- 5 MiaaU A 1 wa inforrned yQu n an earlie r m tm0ranc um an FebYuny lt and 9 w h0-ld five hour8 of negotiatiOfts with a �elegation sent by Ma ga�et Th ober on the possible purchase by the Uni ted Kingi tom of U e TRlllBNT D-5 missile At the British r1o1quo st WQ e keeping the a�t o f- tihi s� negoti 1tion s tiqh tl_y hald We offered the British an ar-rangement for the pu cbase of flia- nissiles simila o th greed wo years ago tor the TRIDENT C-41 mi9sile redi--ctably they told us th e price we offe red was higher thal they wished to pay However they a-greed to propose t o ua a ddit ·•on l Qffsetli i e • inc�ases in their own defense posture in a J eaS where we woul l otherwiae have to asa l'IN resp-oneibil · y ourse ve s hic h c ould make up at lea t some of the difrerence we wi l bold another rcun of two weeks afte bo' h sid'es review n goti tions in about their poait ions ana exchange rno re da a • We are optinµ -stic that we c -a n 1 ridge the a1 ff erencas bet een ua o en in the way fok' an an­ nouncement in March Uta the B i tis h w il 1 pur ehase t he D•S 1 RDS -- 3 2 9 00 �o 3