Dokumenter om den kolde krig fjernes i USA
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Danmark bliver også nævnt et par steder i disse dokumenter.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB197/index.htm
(husk at tage en kopi af dokumenterne, og ikke blot linke til dem!)
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Documents 10A-B: Denmark: Visits by Nuclear Armed Ships
Document 10A: U.S. Embassy Denmark cable 1245 to State Department,
"U.S. Naval Visit Approved Provided Ships Have No Nuclear Weapons
Abroad," 24 April 1967, Secret
Document 10B: State Department cable 18627 to U.S. Embassy Denmark,
"Nuclear Weapons on Visiting Ships," 3 May 1967, Secret, excised copy
Source: RG 59, Subject-Numeric Files, 1967-1969, DEF Den-US
In the context of an escalating Vietnam War, visits by U.S.
warships were none too popular and the Danish press and public wondered
aloud whether the ships were nuclear-armed. With U.S. ship visits
scheduled for the coming months, U.S. ambassador Katharine E. White
suggested that the traditional "neither confirm nor deny" stance was
inadequate and that Washington take Danish authorities "into our
confidence" by advising them that the ships did not carry nuclear
weapons. The reply message, prepared jointly by the Navy and the State
Department, and cited in the discussion of Denmark in document one,
informed the Ambassador that her suggestion had been rejected because
neither the Defense Department nor the State Department wanted to break
from "long practice and tradition" of non-comment on the armaments of
visiting warships: "for overriding security reasons, partly involving
precedent this would set, US cannot be put in position of stating
publicly and unequivocally that weapons are not aboard warship, even
when that may be accurate statement." If Danish authorities did not
withdraw their request, it was better that the ship visits did not
occur if the alternative was a "major press campaign" on nuclear
weapons that could harden the government's position.
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dokumenterne:
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB197/ND-10a.pdf
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB197/nd-10b.pdf