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Conclusions:

    1. Danger of surprise surface attack should be greatly reduced if
not eliminated.
    2. Some increased security against surprise air attack would be
achieved.
    3. No surrender by NATO of its assets in maintaining deterrent
and protecting Western Europe.
    4. Soviet knowledge of NATO deployments would not constitute
significant loss.
    5. Inclusion of countries other than Western Germany, plus the de-
vice of mixed teams, would help make clear that plan involves no aban-
donment of goal of German unity.
    6. Successful operation of this system could also lead to further
steps in direction of effective control and reduction of armament.
    This rough outline obviously offers wide latitude for change; yet,
the basic military purpose of the proposal should not be compromised.
The danger of a surprise attack from within the zone subjected to inspec-
tion must be reduced substantially. It is recognized that a control and
inspection system operating in the minimum zone indicated would not
provide protection against surprise by air weapons launched from areas
outside the zone. This fact does not invalidate the merit of the system
proposed, which undertakes to provide no more and no less than a re-
duction of the chance of surprise attack from the zone agreed upon. If
such a system should prove itself, it is not unrealistic to hope that it
would become the nucleus of broader action to mitigate even greater
dangers.