On 3 December 1958, the French Chief of National Defence Staff sends a letter to French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville about the fact that the Agency for the Control of Armaments (ACA) intends to issue an indictment against the French Government concerning the information it has provided on the stationing of the country’s naval forces. The ACA criticises France for not having filled in the Agency’s questionnaire fully. Given France’s overseas obligations, the Chief of National Defence Staff is of the view that the country does not have to indicate all the missions of its fleet. France will also provide detailed indications of the weapons supplied to its partners in Western European Union (WEU) but will not give an overall indication of equipment exported outside Europe and will not mention the recipients of this equipment.