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    "ocrText": "Amb. Dobrynin/KIssinger\n9:10 a. m.\n5/11/71\n-5-\nD: He went more and more?\nK: He did that on a boat and not a plenary session and there's not a record\nbut when a Deputy Minister speaks for 5 hours he must have something to say.\nD: It's not necessary. The thing is Semonov could speak for 5 hours is well\nknown in my govt. Hecan talk on anything he likes. He wouldn't know anything\nabout the military thing but he can philosophize many things. They will be\nvery strongly scolded and he la is my friend. Was it a proposal or did Smith\nthink so?\nK: I'ts not a difficulty because IXIX Smith thinks he has and we must now respond.\nIf I do nothing else now you will get a formal answer to Semonov from Smith.\nD: A telegram coming in now. Will you hold a minute?\nK: Yes.\nD: So I will sum up this way. Smith gets a definite proposal and Semonov\ncontinued to elaborate. But he didn't say we are ready to make this proposal.\nK: He thinks that if we now say all right we accept an agreement on ABM and\nfreeze, he thinks there will be an agreement. Smith feels we can get an\nagreement along the lines of what you and I talked about. Simulianeous freeze.\nABM vs. Moscow. That's what he thinks.\nD: No authority because it contradicts his instructions. If i mention this to\nGromyko, he will say Smith invented it.\nK: Smith believes it's an ABM agreement with offensive freeze concluded\nsimultaneously with limitations on radar and limitations of texting of surface\nto air missiles (which we haven't discussed).\nD: He has instructions not to discuss specifics.\nK: I just finished talking with Smith. This is not something he asked Smith\nto raise with him and not our major issue.\nD: I have the telegram. This is a copy from Moxcow on what Semonov reports.\nActing in accordance with instructions and said nothing more.\nminister and discuss with Smith what we didn't talk through Smith and Semonov (?\nSemonov emphatically denies he talked with Smith about it.\nK: I don't know what to do know."
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