ATOMIC ENERGY


offered. We will intimate that upon the establishment of a stable gov-
ernment in Belgium, if that has not already been accomplished, we
would be happy to resume negotiations with ý view toward arriving
at a final understanding on the basis of the Joint Communiqu6, which
all parties have agreed to in principle.'9

                             [Annex E]
Memorandum by the British Members of the Combined Policy Coln-
              mittee to the Combined Policy Committee

  United Kingdom Ministers have recently considered the desirability,.
especially in view of the recent case of Dr. Fuchs, of examining the
comparability as between the United States, United Kingdom and
Canada of the standards of security in the field of atomic energy.
  2. The United Kingdom members of the Combined Policy Com-
mittee have therefore been instructed to propose to their United State&,
and Canadian colleagues that a meeting should be held in the near
future to examine security arrangements in the field of atomic energy
at present existing in the three countries. As a point of departure for
such a meeting, para. (d) of Section I of the Memorandum 20 drawn
up during the tripartite talks last autumn by Sub-Committee III-
Information at its meeting of September 26, 1949, might be taken..
This paragraph reads as follows
  "Full exchange of information will depend, as in the past, on
acceptance by each of the three countries of the security clearances of
the other two countries. An exchange of views on the methods and
criteria used in security clearances should be arranged, perhaps most
easily by exchange of visits of security officers. It is not necessary for
the procedures to be identical provided they achieve the same-
standards."
  3. If it is agreed to hold such a meeting the United Kingdom
members of the Combined Policy Committee feel that representativesý
of the security services interested in the safeguarding of classified-
atomic energy information of the three countries should be included
in the respective teams, together with persons who have a general.
responsibility for the direction of the atomic energy programmes in
the three countries.
  4. The United Kingdom members would be glad to learn the views,

of their United States and Canadian colleagues on this proposal.
  WASHINGTON, 17th April, 1950.

  "9Perkins, Van Zeeland, and Sir Roger Makins, British Deputy Under
Secre-
tary ,of State for Foreign Affairs, reviewed the atomic-energy situation
at London
on May 18. The memorandum of this inconclusive conversation is not printed.-
(Department of State Atomic Energy FilesI
  'Not printed.


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