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Elliot Richardson
3/12/70 2:25 p. m.
R: I'm trying to get some ideas for this afternoon as to what
you thought was likely to come up.
K: They didn't get the important papers done. I'm just go- -
ing through a series of cats and dogs: freedom to MIGs(?), land
mobiles, qualitative restrictions, and nuclear accidents. We have
to have a meeting next week on MIRV, ABM and SAM upgrade problem.
R: When on negotiating options?
K: Next week too. We'll have to have two meetings next
week.
R: The ABM thing wasn't enough finished?
K: They were going to do another.
R: I thought that paper that just came in was damn good.
K: It was good. We will have some discussion of negotiating
options today.
R: That would be useful. I am jarred by the discovery in the
last 10 days at developments in MIRV and ABM that I didn't understand
before.
K: Like what?
R: On the problem of upgrading an ABM system comparable
ben a Soviet threat to the Safeguard system in the US. The upgrade
problem is really hairy once you have a system as gig as the one we
propose for ourselves. There's the xxxg chance of degxexdix degrad-
ing
K: What is hair-raising to me is a system as large as they have
and to upgrade.
R: Before we negotiate ABM levels which give them enough for
their area defense comparable to what we want, then the risk of upgrade
seems important.
K: But supposing you have a low ABM level; then the problem
of SAM upgrade becomes worse.
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