25 March 1952 HEMOAABOUM FORa. CHU PINARCE Division Seneeeeen | Shwe
14-00000 Sen he treet in reply cefor tos ’ ca | . : 2b “aed. Ler) WW MUMOMAMTA. “Olis Asuictant Dircetor for bolicy Gnorcisation Veouty Ulroctor (Flans) Deputy Uirsetor of central Intell iverce SUBJECTS Attached Lotter from Srencer rrerl«< Attached is a letter fron Spencer |nenls to eh Lex. which Pnenix details tae story of nis efforts “ws rtase exrcenant with the German authorities on the stams of FE under new pocteT@G covernment. I would judce tual Seenesr nas a wonderful Jeb to date and thab tunings are: on tis trade, tit L think you would ba Literested fn coadhay Aig Letues ancl wo second attachnent, waich ig the measorandun of unserssasc with the German Government on which ne ls wow worsinc. Li Chief International Organizatless Itivision Attachmant Ltr 3 Mar 52 to Bob Lang. SFORET
Paris, Narch 3, 1952 “7 Dear Bob, ZT have not dona much reporting on cur Gervan negotiations: for suveral reasonss first, there was not much to report and, sccond,. whatever there wad Pick Condon undertook to forward from Muniche J did write C.D. a couple of letters outlining our delaya ant sone of our une cartainties, and last week J cabled him thas J would send @ more detalled narrative when J got to Paris. As he is row technically no lenger President of NCPE, and a2. Admiral Miller may not have teen completely Iinforaed of all thatw are trying to do, Tam adtressing this to you, with evpy to gach of theme ‘Ym the first place, let me say that progress during the last half of last week was surprisinsly epeedy and encouraging, There sre stil ny opportunities for the vel] known ®slip @twixt the cup and the lip®, and Local Gerran political considerations coulc roar their ugly heads at any woment.e J think it must alao be understood that, ag Dick Condon puts it, no natter now many nor how good written agPoe-ents we may have covering our operstions, the whole RPE enterprise in Gar-any.dll heave t. te played pretty much by ear once the contractual agreements take effect. I rayzard this, however, as an imescacabdle risk, and [ -entien it now only to esphaglze the parcount dnpertance of the ut~ost care in programming and in ecndiet to - vol. a borer which eould upset our entire apple-cart. The very favorable repert vhich your friend Asher Lee made after his hurried inspe-tion of Munieh underlines the need for regular spot check on program output to avoid howlers, and the neec for this once our relationship wit! tne Ger ens is ne loner through the Occue pation Authorities or HICOG is even more inperatives, Dick Condon s-nt you from Munieh the text of the proposed Suncespost license which we a Peed on with Br, Schuster on Fo. rucry 19, 1952, and this should long since have reached youe Qur Bonn ne otfations resulted in the acce tance of this text, with two «xceptionss 1) Sub-clzuse 2 of article JJ is oli-inated, You will Fesemver that the Pundesrost wishec to gnsert a provision aut.crizing Iicense ¢% ince: lation af RFE shou.d ?-readeas® anytoing which @%¢ will te tne opinion of the Federal Gcovernzent tat tio transmissions will prejudice
the interest of tia Fecurnl Nepuvlic#®, We objected to this Oo. two grounigag a) thet such proviaion hat no logical place in a technical License, and ; b) that it node ar position far too procarious since 1t uxposed us to license cancellation practically at the whim of any Garvan duresue crat, and we persuaded Pr. ychuster to leave it out of tha liconge and let us discuss the preblen at Bonne At Bonn, we vere fortunately able to persuade the Foratin Office officials that guch a provision had no technical place In the license, and tnat whatever should he said on the subjeet should be saié in an oxchane of letters, or the eculvalent, batvcon the Foreisn Office and ourseives, Accordingiy, Article IT _ mow contains but ons clause, 2) Question wor reis:d by the Poreten office officials at Bonn rercardine the lareth of the license. Thetext Dick sent you provides for validity until August 31, 1960, The reason I chore that date wes that it is the expiration date of our lease on the Yolzxirchen transe mitter site, and I] thought tiat if 15 arbitrary term were to va fixe that tying 1¢ In with the "lolzkirchen Lease gave it &@ plausicility whieh would hels acceptance @ and that proved to Le the case so far as the Sundespost was concerned. The Foroiin Office pecple told us, however, that AUtercus cuestions had been .gked in the Sundestag regarding RPS anc its programs, and that for the Qovern-ent, to give us a licenze for as long a3 eirht years would cause serious criticism. Ve are a peculiar sort of animal, anyway, and for our irregular activities to be vlessed with such long term a2;roaval would, they thought, be unwise for both their and our goints of view, Accordingly, they sus ssted a foure year periodg [I countered with five, datins from the date of license issuance which (since 1¢ cannot take placu before the contractual a,reemantsa becone errective, may well be Late in 1952) will give us considerably nore than five years life expectancy. My own feeling is that if we have not cone our Job vitnin five years, we might as woll pull down the shade and go hom@. In any case, my counter proposal was, «s I said, accepted, and Article JIZ of tne License wili now reads % ®fTnis license shall be vwaiid for a period of five years cos encing with the e-te of {ts issuance ant vill be automatically axtenied thereafter froz year to year unless written notice Gf ter ination is given by ome party to the ofor not less than 93 daya prior to the nex® eypiration date,®