http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB190/index.htm
The Vela Incident
Nuclear Test or Meteoroid?
Documents Show Significant Disagreement with Presidential Panel Concerning Cause of September 22, 1979 Vela "Double-Flash" Detection
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 190
Definite proof of Military satellites (VELA 5B) looking for nuclear detonations.1979.
Does this look like anyone's downed satellite?
Also
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB36/index.html
RE Salt talks ,ABMs and Laser ABMs. 1971.
With its unflattering references to Henry Kissinger, this "nodis" message would have made him apoplectic. It describes the debate over the zero ABM proposal at a meeting of the NSC's Verification Panel. Not mentioning that he had authorized Smith to bring up an ABM ban with Semenov and probably not interested in confronting the Joint Chiefs (who opposed a ban), Kissinger structured the discussion in order to build a consensus against it. As Raymond Garthoff suggests, apparently Kissinger did not believe that the Soviets were serious about a ban because Ambassador Dobrynin had not aired the issue during their secret back-channel conversations. In any event, Kissinger does not discuss the zero ABM proposal in White House Years, so more needs to be learned about his thinking about the issue.
Only ACDA official Philip Farley supported tabling an ABM ban in Helsinki; others at the meeting, including Deputy Secretary of State John Irwin, CIA Director Richard Helms, Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, and the well-known strategic expert Attorney General John Mitchell, supported Kissinger.16 Also under discussion was a discussion of whether an ABM agreement would include a ban "exotic" high-tech ABMs (e.g., laser weapons). A few days later, Nixon authorized the SALT delegation to seek such a ban.
Comment.
Nothing particularly startling here other than the mention of a ban on ABM lasers in 1971! and the obvious ban on ABMs in general which would have put any development on new ABM weapons on a black ops list for sure.
Obviously in view of the above treaty a clandestine ELF EM program that involved no visible test launches of ABMs would have been advantageous after the '71 agreement and of course difficult to prove if used as a 'unseen' and 'untrackable' ABM weapon.
Robert