r DECLASSIFIED Authority O l3f E 2 c · ST Tf ' ·•••· ' C FA TM Ud A MB S AOuh Aci t April 9 1979 5ECR£'f MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE Cy The attached telegram instructing Ambassador Hummel was not cleared with me -- although it deals with the moat important nonproliferation issue yet faced by President Carter I urge reconsideration of the straddle policy which it adopts This policy attempts the impossible -- to keep proliferation separate from Pakistan security -- by dealing with these issue • on two levela The Eisenhower doctrine which the 1959 agreement implemented never contemplated security guarantee • for a pro• pectively nuclear armed Pakistan We have been willing to put sharp • trains on relations with the Federal Republic Japan and other allies in efforts to get them to alter their clearly peaceful nuclear programs We even embargoed the European Community for a short period Here we have discovered a Pakistani covert weapons program based on stolen designs Our reaction seems mild by comparison Even the aid cutoff seems cast as an action which we have to take because of Congress and we are even willing to discus • with the Pakistanis •the question of the strategic value of a nuclear weapon• capacity Our nonproliferation policy thus becomes in the language used in the instruction a matter of degree not principle I think our best chance to turn the Pakistanis around -- and to sustain Congresaional and domestic political support for a U S role in Pakistan -- ia to make clear that in the last analysis it• nuclear policy puts our whole relation at state I recommend that Ambassador H11111111el'a instructio7•nged accordingly cc - - Mr Christopher P - Mr Newsom D NSC - State 85585 72 _ ith ry•7· or Brzezin1k saeRs a _ GOS