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UNITED STATES ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20451

August 27, 1970

Dear Joshua:

Getting paid for working for the US Government seems
to be more complicated than any other part of the job. I
understand that our Executive Office is sending you a
request for the information which they need to make out
your travel voucher and pay your per diem, but in addition
we need a record of the amount of time you spent on the
job in order to pay your consultant fee. The enclosed
forms are for this latter purpose. My understanding is
that consultants are paid for the precise number of hours
they spent performing whatever service they were engaged
to perform, and I leave it entirely to you to decide when
you were "working" on this assignment and when you were not.
The time of your consultantation commences with your being
sworn in. If you will fill out the forms and send them
back, we will carry on from there.

Your occasional notes and comments have been interesting
to me and I have sentthem on to Jim Leonard. I had read
I. F. Stone's article you referred to and had the impression
that, while much of what he said was factually accurate, the
selection of facts and interpretation put on them (as in
the example you mentioned) gave a pretty warped impression
in the end. Unfortunately, this is not rare in the New York
Review. I thoroughly agree with your conclusion that it is
important to explain our policies in great detail even if it
requires a supporting educational process at the same time.

We have the impression, I think, from SALT that the
level of Soviet sophistication in "the higher calculus of
deterrence" is well advanced, and I am not at all certain
that Kutnetsov was as innocent of it as Stone asserts.

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Stanford, California

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Stone, of course, does not really understand the calculus
himself or simply disagrees with it.

As you may have heard, things went quite well at the
Mexico City Conference. I understand that Dr. Luria did
a first-rate job of explaining the desirability of focusing
on BW prohibitions and of discouraging the anticipated
Soviet efforts to get endorsement of a joint CW-BW approach.

I imagine that your efforts contributed to this in no small
measure.

We look forward to hearing from you from time to time.
If there are substantive points we can help with or adminis-

trative details in connection with your recent trip, please
write us.

With best personal regards.

Sincerely,

Ar . Day
Acting Assistant Director
International Relations Bureau

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