SECRET UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY n Date Monday August 30 1976 3 00 p m Location 2184 Rayburn House Office Building MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE PARTICIPANTS Cong Clement Zablocki Robert Lagomarsino left ear ly Paul Findley Don Fortier HIRC Staff Thomas Davies Assistant Director ACDA and James Malone General Counsel ACDA SUBJECT Briefing on Taiwanese Reprocessing As a result of the New York Times and Washington Post articles of today August 30 concerning Taiwanese plutonium reprocessing Tom Davies and I ere requested to brief the above Congressmen and Don Fortier We reviewed the present intelligence pointing out that although the newspaper articles conveyed a rather definite impression that the Taiwanese were indeed illegally reprocessing the available evidence was not so clear We noted that we are in the process of further evaluating the evidence and making additional crosschecks particularly of our Crypton 85 Plum evidence We discussed what possible options would be open to the U S in the event illegal reprocessing is indeed going on I said that as soon as we had further information and the results of the latest IAEA inspection we would advise the congressmen through Don Fortier The IAEA information should be available to us within a week or so Bnd the crosschecks on the Crypton 85 evidence within the next couple of months ACDA GC JLMalone bls 8 3 0 76 SECRET • DECLASSIFIED Authority 11 VO 7 @ 5