TELEGR OUTGOING Foreign Service of the United States of America American E mbassy R OME This document consists of 6 pages CopyL_of 4 copies SECRET Charge Series A Control 377 Classification Date October 26 1962 ACTION Secstate WASHINGTO N I N FO 936 Amembass y PARIS TOPOL Amembassy ANKARA 38 18 DISTR RlJ-2 AMB-2 - 4 eab --- E YES ONLY Se c retar y a nd Ambas sadors Finletter and Hare Reference Dep artment telegram EYES ONLY 805 1 Remo v al Jupit ers from Italy ould probably be manageabl e but we hould consult GOI 1n earl stages if • t- it seems lil ely that th y mi 1t for n part of negotiated settlement I would s trongly rel omni end e do tnis before m ing final affirmative dec i non 1n our own minds so as give us more accurate basis for estimating consequences in Ital y of action and for assessing means for best accomplishing objective in harmony with Italians 2 Public awareness of Jupiter installation in Italy is considering all circums tanc es minimal Even Italian communists have thus far given installation relatively light attention D eliberate p olicy of GOI from beginning ha s been REPRODUCTION FROM THIS COPY IS PRONtlLTSLWUi c c SEC BET C lassif ica tio n •• no· • r 'l ioc•• •o • • lh l'lf'lt r· '• 1i _ ' n Jp io h I • lly P• n afltr ht _ tot aai M t' '• 1 r • ·f r • ·-• •· • · ·• SI ' II 1 ' •• OFFICIAL F1LE COPY • • DECLASSIFIED A th · AJND L u onty D_ %Cf Foreign Service of the United States of America OUTGOING SECRET Cla s sification Charge Cdlitrol 377 Date -2- to maintain security on inter-governmental agreement involved to and to p la y down to minimum any attentiory nature purpose or even location of a c tual installation This policy was probably motivat ed p rimarily b r desire to head off political opposition until local impac t was fully a b sorbed in both negative and posit ive terms e g c oncern o ver vulnerability to retaliation creation of jobs i n construction phase etc but from fir st Italians maywell also have had in mind time en installation could be removed 3 G O agreed to J upiter installation primarily because we wanted it to do so ctdition al but incidental consideration was prestige factor and leverage which presence of installation in I taly gave her within NATO But from very beginning G O l eaders were n o t entirely persuaded installation had crit ical military value am clearly have given subject periodic - conside ration since Andreot ti agreed readily t o Secretary M cNamara I s suggestions in Washington last montn for annual reappraisal of military value of installation and for its IfPRODUCTION FROMTHIS COPY IS PROHIIITEI UWS Iii - - - I le • J c• J tl fo t' t c ar' _'l'll• ' l tJ ' r' d h P ' • _ _ a t· ••• 'fi ••·on I l no Ty ·•a1 rQ a t t l rtl C'OII t e r u• • J l»- ll rtl OFFICIAL F ILE COPY ' c • • m e o DECLASSIFIED Authority ND LI D q'S9 ELEGR Foreign Service of the United States of America OUTGOING SECn ET Classifscalion Charge 377 Date - 3- dises tao lishme n t wren no longer needed to next generation miss iles 11 Control I n occa ional refer ences nowledgeable Italian officials h a v e shown obvious and almost eager p reference for seaborne st rategic weap ons which by avoiding land-based installation do not entail politil al p roblem T his gene ral aspect of h ow GOI leade rs view problem would oo vi o usly be acct ntuated by current ass ociation of es sertially neutralis t N enni S ocialis t Party in gove rning process r GOI aIXi general public attach great psychological importa nce to readil y a pparent evidence of our own commitment to def ense of Italy Size of US forces present c arrie s more weight wkh public t han nature ct fa cilitie s or weapons T h is has in past beenextremely important factor in c ontributing to relative political stability Jupiters probably of relatively ittle significan e in this regard because they have created thus far only slight public impression i j because they are in a remote area and as an Italian installation they necessitate p resence of very small number of Americans REPJOIIICTJON FIQM p t C I JI t lt it OFFICI AL FILE COP nus CCIX 1t DECLASSIFIED Authority NND q s9 LID _ I TELEGR Foreign Service of the United States of America OUTGOING SECRET Charge Control Class ifscaHo n - 4- 377 Date 5 Our tentative assessment is thatGOI would agree to withdrawal of J upiters under canbination of offsetting circumstances such as t hese a Clear demonstration that security of Italy and overall military postur e of NATO were not adversel y affected with specific and p resumably publi c i ndication of how present military requirement was being o t he r wise met Also GOI migh t find attractive opp ortunity present Jupite r withdrawal as Italian contribu tion to relaxation East-We st tensions b A ssurances an l occasional publicity on presenc e of Polaris sub1narines in Mediterranean ould he l p toserve abo v e purpose More effective would p robabl y be Kind of big power consultation on which Italians wer e so insistent two and three years ago which we found difficul t and someti mes then tiresome t o ac c ord them but which neverthe l es ' paid 1lflfiii » and would again pay substantial dividends If means can b e found to give effect to E uropean desire for greater share of c ontrol t his too wruld hel p this aspect of problem SECR ET Classificatio n ' ii lr-1 dr -1 lC'i c Dr•rbr l t C 1 bf iTt'- u r 't ··- r'1I• • trp1 2 Trlll 81 F u h • ltr t ddrtu u• lht se 1 n _ • 1 REPRODUCTION FROM THIS 0 PR l's• d· - - ·· -f · 1n OFFICIAL FILE COPY am • e •a • DECLASS _I F I _E D --_ _ Authon·ty IIVJL lla 1' tr' _ 2-1 D_ _ I TELEGR Foreign Service of the United States of America OUTGOING SECRE T Classi fi catfon Charge Control 377 - 5- Date c P ublic empha s i s on Ital y 1 s r ole i n NATO in orde r to c ount e r - balance lo ss of v alue whi ch m i ss iles h a ve for Ital y in calling attention to i t s role and p o s ition in Alliance a n asp e c t to whi chA nd r e otti r eferr ed i n m o s t recent t alk w ith McNamara d Continuation of Ame rican part icipation i n SE TAF at present level and p o s t p onemert of furthe r Italia n i zing 1 1 11 of this for c e T h is would be imp ortant p art of pac l ' a ge since w ithdrawal US grrund c omb at for ces from N rtl1ern Ital y eve -i though relatively s mall numbers involved a t sam e time as J upite rs were b eing liq uidat ed would h ave c umul a t ivel y b ad psycholo gical effect especially on Ita l i a n arme d for c es and on sO fa r r eliable secto r of i Olitic al leader shi p 6 F rom poin t of view of Ita lian problem and under above circumstances we see little value in talking of possibility o f multilateral seaborne nuclear for c e While G OI pref ers seaborne toland-based missiles for political reasons it is d o ub tless staggered b y- c ost to Italians of pa rticipation SECRE T Class i f i ca ti o n • G • · z• r tt • t s f 'ttu ' ' to It Dt - ' 1 c - rd hP By c •ll• J rt ' '' •·•· ' l a tit su al UILk ' • REPRODUCTION FROM THIS COPY IS PROHIIITD Wll E t •• 1•· ·• •· · · f • • po• '' '· r r' ld • • OFFICL L FILE COPY DECLASSIFIED Authority ND q s9 2 1 D TELEGR Foreign Service of the United States of America OUTGOING SECRET Classification Charge Control 377 - b- Date in a multilateral force especially in relation to heavy competing domestic requirements I n any case we believe GO m a ybe expec ted t o be c o n t ent a t l east so long as t h ere are not a numbe r of other E u ropean members of Alliance maJ Cing fu r t her p rogress in national nuclear capabilities t o leave to US task of providing s trategic for ces of Allianc e 7 Ir spit e of c autious official p o sit i on of Italian Gove rnment and p olitic al p arti es we sense idespread a p proval in Italy of US determination to oppose So iet i ntrusion into area of vital A merican interest Th y respect di ipla s tr ength on grounds which can be readilr understood of Any phase -out of Jupiter missile installations would h ave to be ve r y carefully handled so as not to undercut favorable effects of our present posture o ' REINHARDT MIN OHors G a nnett ms 10 20 62 SEC RE