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S E C R E T STATE 014963 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/18/2030 
TAGS: BO KACT KZ PARM RS UP US START
SUBJECT: SFO-VIII GUIDANCE 008: TELEMETRY TEXTS 
 
REF: STATE 013110 (SFO-VIII GUIDANCE 005) 
 
Classified By: Karin L. Look, Acting ASSISTANT SECRETARY, VCI. 
Reason: 1.4 (b) and (d). 
 
¶1. (S) Guidance: Ref A instructed Delegation to draft 
Protocol and Annex language on telemetry for Washington 
review prior to tabling with the Russian delegation. 
Washington has reviewed the Delegation's draft texts and 
appreciates the Delegation's efforts.  After careful 
consideration, Washington has decided to strictly pursue 
the approach using the language agreed during the General 
Jones and Admiral Mullen meetings with General Makarov in 
Moscow in January.  Therefore, Delegation is authorized to 
provide the U.S.-proposed Protocol text in paragraph 2 
below to the Russian delegation.  The Protocol language 
implements what the U.S. and Russia agreed to in Moscow in 
January for the Protocol, which is in addition to the 
telemetry language in the Treaty text that has already 
been agreed.  The Delegation is also authorized to table 
and begin negotiation of the telemetry annex language in 
paragraph 3 as the United States proposal for the 
additional details on the telemetry exchange that will 
need to be agreed in an annex before the Treaty can be 
ratified and enter into force.  Delegation may replace " 
launch" with "flight test" in the Protocol if Russia can 
be persuaded to accept the change.  In tabling and working 
the annex, Delegation should emphasize to the Russians 
that although the United States is willing to begin the 
negotiation of the annex now, many of its technical 
details are complex and will require time to negotiate. 
Delegation should further emphasize that completion of the 
telemetry annex is not required before signature of the 
Treaty and Protocol.  Delegation should not permit 
negotiation of the telemetry annex to delay the completion 
of the Treaty and Protocol for signature. 
 
¶2. (S) Begin text: 
 
Draft U.S. Proposal on Part Seven of the Treaty Protocol 
on Telemetry 
 
¶1.  From the entry into force of the Treaty, the Parties 
shall exchange telemetric information, on a parity basis, 
on no more than five launches per year of ICBMs and SLBMs. 
 
¶2.  The exchange of telemetric information shall be 
carried out for an equal number of launches of ICBMs and 
SLBMs conducted by the sides, and in an agreed amount. 
 
¶3.  On an annual basis, the sides shall review the 
conditions and method of further telemetric information 
exchange on launches of ICBMs and SLBMs within the 
framework of the Bilateral Consultative Commission. 
Additional details on the telemetry exchange are contained 
in the Annex on Telemetry Exchange Procedures. 
 
End text. 
 
¶3. (S) Begin text: 
Draft U.S. Proposal 
Annex on Telemetry Exchange Procedures 
 
¶1. The Bilateral Consultative Commission shall meet within 
65 days after entry into force of the Treaty to discuss 
exchange of telemetric information on flight tests of 
ICBMs and SLBMs planned for that year.  Thereafter, the 
Bilateral Consultative Commission shall meet within the 
first 65 days of each calendar year to discuss exchange of 
telemetric information on flight tests of ICBMs and SLBMs 
planned for that year, and to review the conditions and 
methods of further telemetric information exchange on 
flight tests of ICBMs and SLBMs. 
 
¶2.  At each such meeting, the Parties will discuss 
selection of launches on which telemetric information will 
be exchanged to ensure that parity of the exchange is 
maintained. 
 
¶3.  Telemetric information shall be exchanged on five 
flight tests each year, unless one of the Parties launches 
fewer than five ICBMs and SLBMs in that year.  The number 
of flight tests for which telemetric information shall be 
exchanged in the remainder of the year in which the Treaty 
enters into force will be determined on a proportional 
basis.  Telemetric information shall be exchanged on the 
same total number of flight tests of ICBMs and SLBMs for 
each Party each year. 
 
¶4.  For each launch for which telemetric information is 
exchanged, the Parties shall provide recording media and 
interpretive data for all telemetric information that 
originates during the flight test from the missile stages 
and, if so equipped, a self-contained dispensing 
mechanism. 
¶5.  For each launch for which telemetric information is 
exchanged, no less than 24 hours in advance of any flight 
test of an ICBM or SLBM, including a prototype ICBM or 
SLBM, the Party conducting the flight test shall notify 
the other Party of all frequencies and associated 
modulation methods to be used to broadcast telemetric 
information during the flight test. 
 
¶6. For each launch for which telemetric information is 
exchanged, the testing Party shall not engage in 
activities to deny the monitoring Party access to the 
telemetry signal broadcast from the stages and, if so 
equipped, the self-contained dispensing mechanism, through 
use of jamming, narrow directional beaming, or 
encapsulation.  If encryption methods are used, the means 
to obtain the decrypted data shall be provided to the 
monitoring Party. 
 
¶7.  For each flight test for which telemetric information 
is provided, the testing Party shall provide the 
monitoring Party the following: 
(a) recording media containing all recorded telemetric 
information originating from the stages and self-contained 
dispensing mechanism, if so equipped, irrespective of 
broadcast or recovery method; 
(b) the information necessary to play back the telemetric 
information from the recording media; and 
(c) interpretive data necessary to permit the monitoring 
Party to extract independently the full representation of 
each data element contained in the telemetric information 
described in subparagraph (a), including information to 
decrypt the telemetric information if encrypted. 
 
¶8.  If the monitoring Party is unable to play back the 
telemetric information or extract the full representations 
described in Paragraphs 7(b) and 7(c), it shall notify the 
testing Party.  The testing Party shall provide additional 
explanations or, as necessary, new copies of the recording 
media describe in Paragraph 7(a) to assist the monitoring 
Party in extracting these representations. 
 
¶9.  Unless otherwise agreed or previously demonstrated, 
each Party shall carry out an initial demonstration of the 
recording media and playback equipment required to play 
back the telemetric information, and shall provide to the 
other Party the required playback equipment or the 
information necessary to facilitate its purchase. 
 
End text. 
 
End guidance. 
CLINTON