1 '-1 ' TELEGRAM OUTGOING Foreign Service of the United States of America Amembassy ROE This document consists of 2 pages Copy L or 7 cop6es Series A s E c r T Charge C l a s s i Ii c a t i o n DIST RU-2 RGILPATRIC AMB -2 DCM-2 Control 132 Date Rebruary 12 1963 1100 Se nt SECSTATE WASHINGTON Info Ame bassy PARIS 1612 349 7 fd P ris also for USRO Dept pass Defense Yesterday Feb 11 Deputy Secdef Gilpatric and c lled en Primin Fanfani Du ring first part of meeti ng which lasted over an hour Gi l patri c referred to US plans for deploy er t o between end of March and mid- May of three RR to be assipned to SACEUR I subTI arines Gilpatric alsc referred top ssible call at an Itali2n port by one of thes spring if desired by Italian Govt r with these arrangements and indict port by a POLARIS submarin Cilpa tric t hen spoke of early in March of Amb po· editerranean mi ht b ub rin slater in • nf ni xpr sse th t vi it o an Italian in or 1 satisfaction after the election roj cted visit to Ro e probabl erch nt and his group t o disc u ss Italian participation in integ rated ele ent of ATO nuclear f orce In this connection Fanfani stated that based on advice he had received while last in Washing ton froo President and Secy Mc Namara Council of Ministers had decided against pushin idea of eoui pp in g GARI BALDI with PO LARIS missiles SI CP ' Cl a ssi i c ati o 11 OFFICIAL FILE COPY - R9RODUCTION FROM THIS CQlY IS DECLASSIFIED ·• Authority NND S1 LID LEGR Foreign Service of the United States of America OUTGOING S E C R E T Charge Cl a s s if i ca t ion - 2 - Control 132 Date Cilpatr ic t he n mentioned deve l opments in US Govt thinking in regard to NATO s ince Fanfani ' s talks in ·Jashingt on with particula r r ef e re nce t o r ef l e ctions on possibl e c onsequences of President de Gaulle ' s press conf erence of Jan 14 These possi - bilities included first loss of mo e ntu m t oward unity in the alliance gained following Berlin cr i sis of 1961 and Cuban crisis in fall of 1962 second risk t hat an a parent iv i sion in alliance mi ght lead to more intransi£e nt and adventuresorr e attitud e on part of Soviet a s exemplified by recent hardening of its position in XHX test ban negotiations and withdrawal of forces fr om Cu ba a n d third concern 1st American people if left with fee ling of bein towards z • xzi RiR restrictive a ttitud forces in Euro p unwanted in Euro e might take more r r intaining large US nfa n i responded that he agreed with this analysis of dangers attend ant u p on d e Gaulle position rcgardin NATO and endorsed view that it was ore important than ever for rest of alliance to strive for greater unity Throughout conversation Fanfani displayed a most cordial and forthcoming attitude and an evident desire to associate himself with U S views and positions RGilpatric ejf REil HARDT SEC' ' £ REPRODUCTION flQll THIS 00 Y IS Classi i catiou ' I DECLASSIFIED ED OFFICIAL FILE COPY Autbority rJD crs9 2 1 D