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SUBJ: JAVITS
REF: STATE 058925
1. RAISED JAVITS! DESIRE FOR ACCOMMODATION AT NATIONAL HOTEL
WITH BOTH DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ZEMSKOV AND KORNIENKO THIS
MORNING. I TOLD THEM THAT THIS WAS REPEAT OF SENTIMENTAL
JOURNEY AND THAT SENATOR WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE SOVIET
COOPERATION IN MEETING THIS REQUEST.
2. KORNIENKO WAS NUN-COMMITTAL IN REPLY AND SAID THAT
MATTER WOULD BE REFERRED AGAIN TO SUPREME SUVIET.
3. I'M NOT VERY HOPEFUL ON THIS ONE, BUT IN ANY CASE I
FEEL WEIVE GONE ABOUT AS FAR AS WE CAN GO TO HELP THE
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SUBJ: BREXHNEY'S HEALTH
1. I CALLED YESTERDAY ON FINNISH AMBASSADOR HALLAMA,
WHO SAT IN WITH KEKKONEN DURING HIS RECENT MOSCOW
CONVERSTATIONS WITH SOVIET LEADERSHIP. HALLAMA SAID HE
HAD FOUND BREZHNEV "A CHANGED MAN", EXTREMELY PALE AND
CLEARLY UNDER SUME STRAIN. HALLAMA NUTED HE HAS SEEN
BREZHNEV FAIRLY FREQUENTLY OVER PAST YEARS AND STRESSED
THAT VIGOR. ON THIS OCCASION HE HAD NOTED MARKED DECLINE IN HIS
2. ACCORDING TO HALLAMA, BREZHNEV DID NOT ACCOMPNAY
KEKKONEN AND PODGURNY TO HUNTING PARTY AT ZAVIDOVO,
SAYING HE WAS "STILL NOT WELL ENOUGH".
3. HALLAMA SAID FINNS HAD HEARD FROM SOVIET SOURCE THAT
BREZHNEV HAD UNDERGONE OPERATION ON UPPER LEFT JAN, AND
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THAT FOUR WEST GERMAN DOCTORS HAD COME 10 MOSCOW TO
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SUBJ: WORKING LUNCH FOR KORNIYENKU
REF: A. MUSCOW 3567 6. STATE 62575
1. LUNCH WITH GROUP FROM MFA USA DIVISION HEADED BY DIVISION
CHIEF KORNIYENKO TOOK PLACE MARCH 20 AT SPASO HOUSE. KORNIYENKO
WAS ACCOMPANIED BY KOMPLEKTOY, MIKHAILOV, SOKOLOV, AND CHETVERIKOV
MATLOCK, BREMENT, MELENCAMP AND JOYCE WERE PRESENT ON OUR SIDE.
2. TRADE ACT. KORNIYENKO HAD VERY LITTLE TO RAISE OF A SUB-
STANTIVE NATURE. HE DID NOTE, HOWEVER -- RATHER CEREMONIQUSLY --
WHEN WE WERE DISCUSSING THE UPCOMING VISIT OF TREASURY SECREATRY
SIMON THAT IF U.S. HAD PROPERLY READ AND APPRECIATED BREZHNEVIS
SPEECH OCT. 15 ON U.S. SOVIET TRADE RELATIONS WHEN SIMON WAS
LAST IN MOSCOW, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO "SURPRISE GR CONFUSION"
ON THE PANT OF SOME PEOPLE ABOUT THE SUBSEQUENT SOVIET REFUSAL
TO ACCEDE TU THE CONDITIONS OF THE TRADE AC1. KOMPLEKTOV
ADDED THAT GROMYKOTS LETTER OF OCT. 26 ALSO MADE THIS CLEAR
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AND SAID THAT THE BREZHNEV SPEECH AND THE GROMYKO LETTER
TAKEN TOGETHER SHOULD HAVE LEFT NO DOUBT IN ANYONE'S MIND
INTHIS REGARD.
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3. SUMMIT. KORNIYENKU INDICATED THAT RE HAD NO INSTRUCTIONS
AS YET UN TIMING OF THE U.S. SOVIET SUMMIT. HE CONFIRMED
THAT THE SUMMIT WOULD TAKE PLACE THIS YEAR, AND HIS REMARKS
ON CSCN IMPLIED THAT THE SOVIETS EXPECT THAT IT WILL BE HELD
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AFTER THE CSCE SUMMIT. WHILE NOT RULING OUT THE POSSIBILITY
OF CONCLUDING NEW AGREEMENTS, HE SAID THAT HE FELT WE SHOULD
PERHAPS DEVOTE OUR MAJOR EFFORTS AT THE BILATERAL SUMMIT ON
PERFECTING ALREADY ON-GOING AGREEMENTS AND FOLLOWING THROUGH
ON CURRENT NEGUTIATIONS, RATHER THAN TURNING TO NEW TOPICS.
IN THIS REGARD, HE SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED AGREEMENTS ON PNE'S
AND CHEMICAL WARFARE AS BEING TIED TO EARLIER SUMMIT DISCUSSIONS,
ON THE LATTER SUBJECT, HE SAID THAT SUME INDICATION OF PROGRESS
CARD
IN OUR BILATERAL CONSULTATIONS WOULD SUFFICE, AND THAT A FULL-
FLEDGED AGREEMENT WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY. HE SPOKE IN GENERAL
TERMS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF CONCLUDING AGREEMENTS IN THE
SCIENTIFIC- SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGOICAL FIELD AS WELL, BUT MADE NO SPECIFIC
RECOMMENDATIONS.
4, CSCE. KORNIYENKO NOT SURPRISINGLY ENDORSED THE BREZHNEV
SUGGESTION THAT THE CSCE SUMMIT BE HELD ON JUNE 30. HE
CONTENTED THAT IF WE CAN AGREE UN THIS TARGET DATE IT WOULD
SPEED SUBSTANTIVE WORK AT THE CONFERENCE. I SAID THAT WE
WERE INTERESTED IN A SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION ALSO, BUT THAT
WE WOULD HAVE TO SEE WHAT PROGRESS IS MADE IN FURTHER WORK
BEFORE ME CAN COMMIT OURSELVES TO A DATE FOR THE CONCEUDING
SUMMIT.
5. OTHER TOPICS WE DISCUSSED ARE AS FOLLOWS:
A. APOLLO-SOYUZ -- I POINTED OUT THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS
IN THE US WHICH COULD RESULT FROM SOVIET REFUSAL TO ALLOW
LIVE PRESS COVERAGE. I SAID I HAU ALREADY KAISED THIS
MATTER WITH KELDYSH AND KUZNETSOV. KORNIYENKO WAS NON-
COMMITTAL ON THE QUESTION, AND SAID HE WOULD LOOK INTO
THE MATTER. ME 010 SAY THAT HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY
WE COULD NOT BE SATISHIED WITH LIVE TV COVERAGE, AND RE-
MARKED THAT WE SEEMED TO BE ATTEMPTING TO IMPOSE "AMERICAN
PRACTICE" ON THEM.
8. SICENTENNIAL -- I TULD HIM THAT THE SOVIET EMBASSY
IN WASHINGTON HAD BEEN IN TOUCH WITH WARNER'S OFFICE ON
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POSSIBLE SOVIET COOPERATION WITH OUR BICENTENNIAL CELE-
BRATION. KURNIYENKO CLAIMED NOT TO BE AWARE OF THIS, AND
SAID HE WOULD LOOK INTO IT. HE SAID THAT IN ANY CASE, HE
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AND THAT MIS OFFICE WOULD SERVE AS THE COORDINATING PUINT
FOR SUCH SUGGESTIONS. CULTURAL COUNSELOR WILL BE
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FOLLOWING UP UN THIS.
C. NATIONAL CULTURAL CENTERS -- I EXPLAINED OUR PROPOSAL
ON SUCH CENTERS, AND KORNIYENKO REPLIED THAT IT "COULD BE
CONSIDERED". HE SAID THAT IT RAISED MANY OF THE SAME
QUESTIONS BEING DISCUSSED NOW IN CSCE, OUT ME WOULD NOT
EXCLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION.
D. TRAVEL CONTROLS -- IN RESPONSE TU MY REQUEST FOR OUR
SUGGESTIONS FROM H2M AS HOW WE COULD MOVE FORWARD TO
LIBERALIZE TRAVEL CONTROLS, KORNIYENKO REPLIED THAT AT
THE PRESENT TIME, IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE TRADE ACT, THE
"PSYCHOLOGICAL ATMOSPHERE" MIGHT NOT BE RIGHT FOR SUCH A
MOVE. I REMARKED THAT PERHAPS UNDER THUSE CONDITIONS WE
SHOULD ATTEMPT TU MOVE FORWARD, ON SUCH ISSUES, BUT HE
DISAGREED.
E. KIEV. 1 MENTIONED MYSHKOVIS REQUEST IN WASHINGTON
FOR APPROVAL IN PRINCIPLE OF PROPERTY FOR THE SOVIT CONGEN
IN NEW YORK AND ASKED WHEN NE MIGHT EXPECT TO BE OFFERED
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PROPERTIES IN KIEV. KORNIYENKO SAID THE KIEV AUTHORITIES
HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THE MATTER AND THAT HE HAD INSTRUCTED
HIS PEOPLE THAT MORNING TO CHECK UN THEIR PROGRESS. HE
EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE THAT PROPERTIES WOULD BE OFFERED
SHORTLY, ANU SAID IT HOULD ALSO BE DESIRABLE TO SETTLE THE
QUESTION UF THE CUNSULAR DISTRICTS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
I AGREED, BUT REMARKED THAT WE ASSUME THAT THE CONSULAR
DISTRICT QUESTION NEED NOT BE SETTLED BEFORE WE ARE OFFERED
PROPERTIES. KORNIYENKO STATED THAT THEY DID NOT RPT NOT
CONSIDER IT NECESSARY TO SETTLE THE CONSULAR DISTRICTS
FORD
BEFORE PROPERTIES WERE OFFERED FUR OUR CONSIDERATION.
REGARDING CONSOLAR DISTRICTS, ME ASSURED ME THAT
TRAVEL BY K1EV CONSULAR OFFICIALS TO STAVROPOL AND OTHER
CITIES OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT WOULD BE NO PROBLEM. I
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WOULD BE ARTIFICIAL, BUT HE RESPONDED WITH THE STANDARD
ARGUMENT THAT IT ROULD BE DIFFICULT FOR CONSULAR OFFICIALS
IN ONE REPUBLIC CAPITAL TO DEAL WITH THOSE IN ANOTHER.
CHE SEEMED, INCIDENTALLY, TO BE CONFUSED ABOUT THE STATUS
OF ACCREDITATION OF EE CONSULATES, SAYING THAT WHILE THE
ROMANIANS HAVE MOLDAVIA IN THEIR DISTRICT, MOST OF THE
OTHERS 00 NUT, I FACT, OF COURSE, THE SITUATION 15
PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE.) WHEN 1 ASKED HIM WHETHER HIS
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OF A SECOND REPUBLIC IMPLIED THAT CONSULAR DISTRICTS MUST
NECESSARILY BE CONFINED TO ONE REPUBLIC, HE BACKED OFF AND
SAID THAT HE WAS NOT NECESSARILY POSTULATING THIS AS A
GENERAL RULE.
F. SAN FRANCISCO. KORNIYENKO AND KOMPLEKTUV BUTH RAISED
WITH US THE ISSUE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO "QUOTA". THEY
STATED THAT SUVIETS HAD NEVER AGREED TO QUOTA ARRANGEMENT,
AND THAT AUDITIONAL STAFF IS NOW NECESSARY IN SAN FRANCISCO,
THEY WERE TOLD THAT IT IS OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT POSITION
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CONVEYED IN DEPARTMENT'S NOTE ON THIS MATTER IS FIRM us
POLICY. DURING PRIVATE EXCHANGE WITH DCM, KOMPLEKTOV
IMPLIED THAT SOVIETS HIGHT WITHDRAW SOME OF LOCAL STAFF
FROM LENINGRAD IF FORMULA NOT ABANDONED. HE SPECULATED
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THAT THIS WOULD FORCE us TO SEND MORE AMERICANS TO
LENINGRAD AND THUS WOULD INCREASE BASE FOR SOVIET
PERSONNEL IN SAN FRANCISCO. UCM REMINEDED HIM THAT
DEPARTMENT'S NOTE PROVIDED EXTRA 50 PERCENT OF SOVIET
CONGEN ON EXPLICIT CONDITION THAT LOCAL STAFF BE PROVIDED
FOR LENINGRAD, AND WE PLACE NO RESTRICTIONS ON SOVIETS
HIRING LOCAL STAFF IN US. DCM ASLO COMMENTED THAT IT WOULD
BE HIGHLY IN ADVISABLE FOR SOVIETS TO TAKE COURSE KUMPLEKTOV
INVICATED, SINCE IT WOULD NOT RESULT IN AUDITIONAL US
PERSONNEL IN LENINGRAD BUT MIGHT CALL INTO QUESTION
CONTINUATION UF FURMULA ALLOWING SOVIETS FIFTY PERCENT
MORE PEOPLE THAN HE HAVE IN LENINGRAD.
G. PNE'S -- OOTH KORNIYENKO AND KOMPLEKTOV SHOWED
CONSIDERABLE INTEREST IN THE COURSE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS.
I GAVE THEM A QUITE POSITIVE EVALUATION OF "HAT WE HAVE
ACHIEFED.
H. VE DAY -- KORNIYENKO RASIED THE SUBJECT OF VE DAY.
HE SAID THAT THERE HAD BEEN DISCUSSIONS ON THE ISSUE IN
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WASHINGTON, AND THAT HE HAD RECEIVED A CABLE THAT MORNING
FROM VORONTSOV NUTIFYING HIM THAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT
HAD AGREED TO SEND A DELEGATION TU THE USSR, PERHAPS TO
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BE HEADED BY MARRIMAN. KORNIYENKU ASKED IF OUR DAD HAD
RECEIVED ANY PRPOSALS FROM THE DEFENSE MINISTRY ON
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THAT WE HAD NOT. HE ENDED THE DISCUSSION BY SAYING THAT
ME WOULD BE GLAD TO HEAR ANY PROPOSALS ME MIGHT MAKE IN
LINE WITH THE SECHETARY'S STATEMENT ON TMIS SUBJECT IN
GENEVA.
I. NATIONAL WAS COLLEGE VISIT -- KORNIYENKO CLAIMED
TO HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF OUR PROPOSAL THAT THIS VISIT
TAKE PLACE IN APRIL. HE SHOWED ACTIVE INTEREST AND
ASKED SEVERAL QUESTIONS. HE SAID HE WOULE LOOK INTO
THE MATTER.
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SUBJECT: UNDER SECRETARY ROBINSON'S VISIT
FOR SONNENFELDT
REF: STATE 060851
1. WE HAVE HEARD NOTHING FROM SOVIETS HERE ABOUT SCHEDULE
FOR ROBINSON'S VISIT, EXCEPT CONFIRMATION THAT THEY ARE
AWARE OF HIS ARRIVAL MARCH 26,
2, DO YOU KNOW IF ANYTHING IN THE WAY OF APPOINTMENTS OR
SOCIAL EVENTS HAVE BEEN SET UP FOR ROBINSON THROUGH SOVIET
EMBASSY WASHINGTON? WE WILL BE GLAD TO TRY TO ARRANGE
APPOINTMENTS, BUT HESITIATE TO DO SO WITHOUT YOUR OK.
3. I PLAN MEET ORBINSON MARCH 26 AND WE WILL LOOK FORWARD
TO HAVING HIM AND SHINN FOR FAMILY DINNER THAT EVENING,
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SUBJECT: THE USSR AND PORTUGAL
1. SUMMARY: THE EVENTS OF THE LAST TWO WEEKS IN PORTUGAL
ARE A SPECTACULAR WINDFALL FOR THE SOVIET UNION,
ALTHOUGH MOSCOW UNDOUBTEDLY HOPES TO EXPLOIT THEM IN A
WAY WHICH DOES NOT TURN THE WEST UFF DETENTE. WE
DOUBT THAT THE SOVIETS WOULD DO ANYTHING TO SLOW THE
LEFTWARD PACE IN PORTUGAL, BUT WE WOULD GUESS THAT THEY
CONTINUE TO SEE ADVANTAGES IN NOT PURSUING TOO COMRADELY
A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE POST-MARCH 11 REGIME. THE
DANGER IS THAT MOSCOW MAY BE TEMPTED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
A DETERIORATING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND NATO
TO ESTABLISH SOME FORM OF MILITARY UR QUASI-MILITARY TIES WITH
THE LISBON GOVERNMENT, I THINK IT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR THE
SECRETARY TU MAKE A PUBLIC STATEMENT -- PERHAPS IN ANSWER TO
A QUESTION AT A PRESS CONFERENCE -- TO THE EFFECT THAT ANY
EFFORT TO EXPLOIT PORTUGAL'S DIFFICULTIES FOR UNILATERAL
ADVANTAGE WOULD INEVITABLY HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON DETENTE.
END SUMMARY.
2. FROM THE SOVIET POINT OF VIEW, THE COURSE OF EVENTS IN
PORTUGAL IS ALMUST TOO GOOD TU 8E TRUE.
THE ABORTEU COUP OF
MARCH 11 HAS PERMITTED MOSCOW'S CLIENTS
-- CUNHAL AND HIS
COMMUNIST PARTY -- TO DON THE MANTLE OF
ORDER, MODERATION, AND
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ELEMENTS. FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD, BUT NOW IN SIGHT, MOSCOW
PROBABLY ENVISAGES AN INDIGENOUS PORTUGUESE MOVE TO DUST THE
U.S. FROM A MAJOR ATLANTIC BASE AND TO SEVER LISBON'S TIES
WITH NATO. MOREOVER, IF THE SOVIET LUCK HOLDS, ALL THIS
CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED BY THE AFM AND NOT DIRECTLY BY THE
COMMUNIST PARTY, WITHOUT THE SOVIETS HAVING TO DU -- OR TO
BE SEEN TO DO -- MUCH TO ABET THE PROCESS.
3. NEVERTHELESS, THIS POSES OBVIOUS PROBLEMS FOR BREZHNEVIS
DETENTE POLICY. THE KREMLIN IS CERTAINLY CONCERNED THAT
TOO CLOSE AN IDENTIFICATION BETWEEN THE PORTUGUESE COMMUNISTS
AND THE LEFTWARD SWING IN THE COUNTRY MAY RAISE SUSPICIONS
ABOUT MOSCOWTS OWN ROLE IN THE TURN OF EVENTS. LAST FALL,
WHEN PORTUGAL'S GOVERNMENT WAS MORE PLURALIST, THE SOVIETS
DID NOT MINO BUILDING UP CUNHAL BY GIVING MIM A VISIT TO THE
USSR AND MAKING HIM THE BENEFICIARY OF A FEW BILATERAL
AGREEMENTS. NOW THAT HE HAS EMERGED A6 PORTUGAL'S LEADING
CIVILIAN POLITICIAN -- AND GIVEN HIS LONG HISTORY OF DOCILITY
TO MOSCOWIS WILL -- THEY MAY WISH THEY HAD BEEN SLIGHTLY
MORE CIRCUMSPECT.
4, IN ADDITION, WE SUSPECT THAT THE SOVIETS ARE STILL
WORRIED ABOUT A POSSIBLE SWING BACK TO THE RIGHT IN PURTUGAL.
THEY WOULD NOT WASTE MUCH CONCERN OVER THE "PORTUGUESE LIBERATION
ARMY, ABOUT WHICH PRAVDA MARCH 25 RAN A HIGHLY PHOPAGANDISTIC
SCARE STORY BUT THEY MAY FEEL UNSURE ABOUT THE POLITICAL
PERSUASION OF THE SHADOWY FIGURES WHO MAKE UP THE MAJORITY
OF THE AFM. WE WOULD GUESS THAT THE MAIN SOVIET INTEREST IN
THE CURRENT MOSCOW VISIT OF THE LABOR MINISTER, MAJOR COSTA
MARTINS, IS TO GET A BETTER LINE ON THE AFM'S POLITICAL
CRIENTATION. THE CHILEAN EXPERIENCE HAS SEARED DEEPLY
INTO THE SOVIET CONSCIOUSNESS AND, THOUGH THEY KNOW
THAT THE AFM AND THE CHILEAN MILITARY ARE POLES APART
IDEOLOGICALLY, THEY STILL FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE WITH MILITARY
REGIMES.
5. THE SUVIETS MAY ALSO BE WORRIED THAT A SWIFT SLIDE TOWARD
in COMMUNIST-MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN PORTUGAL COULD GIVE
COMMUNISM A BAD NAME IN COUNTRIES (E.G., FRANCE AND ITALY)
WHERE LOCAL COMMUNIST PARTIES HAVE IMPROVED THEIR POLITICAL
PROSPECTS BY WORKING THROUGH THE DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM. A RELATED
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SOVIET CONCERN MAY BE THAT A COMMUNIST-DOMINATED OUTCOME IN
PORTUGAL COULD DAMAGE THE POSSIBILITY OF A LEFT-WING TAKEOVER
IN POST-FRANCO SPAIN, A COUNTRY OF GREATER IMPORTANCE TO
MCSCOW FOR BOTH EMOTIONAL AND GEOPOLITICAL REASONS.
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COULD ALSO BE ARGUED THAT THE SUVIETS SEE A LEFTWARD SLIDE
IN PORTUGAL AS UNDERMINING CONSERVATISM IN SPAIN.)
6. MOST IMPORTANT, OF COURSE, THE SOVIETS ARE UNDOUBTEDLY
CONCERNED THAT EVENTS IN PORTUGAL COULD IMPERIL THE CONTINUED
SUCCESS OF THEIR POLICY OF DETENTE WITH THE UNITED STATES AND
WESTERN EUROPE. HERE THEIR FEARS ARE PROBABLY TWO-PRONGED:
THAT THE WESTERN ALLIES COULD LOSE INTEREST IN A CLOSE POLITICAL
AND ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP WITH THE USSR IF IT SEEMS TO HAVE
A HAND IN THE DISRUPTION OF THEIR ALLIANCE AND THAT THE
II OSS" OF PORTUGAL TO NATO COULD ACTUALLY STRENGTHEN RIGHT-
WING FORCES IN THE WEST (E.G., STRAUSS IN THE FRG).
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7. ASSUMING THAT SOVIET POLICY-MAKERS ARE WEIGHING SOME OR
ALL OF THE ABOVE FACTORS, WE WOULD EXPECT TU SEE THE SOVIETS
TRY TO STRADULE TWO POLICIES: DISCREET SUPPORT FOR THE CURRENT
DIRECTION IN PORTUGAL AND CONTINUED ALLEGIANCE TO DETENTE
WITH THE WEST.
8. IN THE INTERESTS OF DETENTE, WE EXPECT THE SOVIET TO
KEEP A LOW PUBLIC PROFILE IN PORTUGAL AND TO MAKE THEIR OWN
ROLE SEEM AS MINIMAL AS POSSIBLE, SUCH AN APPROACH WOULD
INVOLVE PUBLIC PROFESSIONS OF FIDELITY TO DETENTE (E. GI,
BREZHNEV'S SPEECH IN BUDAPEST MARCH 18, WHICH DID NOT EVEN
MENTION PORTUGAL), PROPAGANDA EMPHASIS ON THE GUIDING RULE
OF THE AFM WATHER THAN OF THE PORTUGUESE COMMUNIST PARTY,
THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MODERATION IN CUNHAL'S STATEMENTS (E.G.,
HIS RECENT REITERATION THAT THE TIME IS NOT RIPE FOR
PORTUGAL'S WITHDRAWAL FROM NATO), CARE NOT 10 ASSOCIATE THE
U.S. AND OTHER MAJOR WESTERN COUNTRIES 100 DIRECTLY WITH
REACTIONARY FORCES IN PORTUGAL, AND -- PERHAPS -- A TENDENCY
NOT TO GLOAT TOO OPENLY ABOUT THE EXTENT TO WHICH DETENTE
HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE SITUATION IN PORTUGAL.
9. GIVEN THE OBVIOUS ADVANTAGES TO MOSCOW OF THE CURRENT
MOMENTUM OF EVENTS IN PORTUGAL, HOWEVER, IT SEEMS UNLIKELY
THAT THE SOVIETS WOULD 00 ANYTHING TO RESTRAIN THE LEFTWARD
PACE THERE. IF EVENTS MOVE TOWARD ELIMINATION OF THE U.S.
BASE IN THE AZORES AND TOWARD PORTUGUESE WITHDRAWAL FROM
NATO, nt CANNOT EXPECT MOSCOW TO ACT AGAINST SUCH A PROCESS
OR EVEN TO TRY TO SLOW IT DOWN.
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10, PROBABLY THE BEST WE CAN HOPE FOR IS A RELATIVELY
PASSIVE SOVIET ROLE IN PORTUGAL -- LETTING EVENTS TAKE THEIR
COURSE. SUCH AN APPROACH OUGHT TO COMMEND
ITSELF TO THE SOVIETS, SINCE IT COULD HELP PROTECT THEIR
DETENTE IMAGE WHILE THINGS SEEM TO BE MOVING THEIR WAY ANYWAY
FOR INTERNAL PORTUGUESE REASONS. HOWEVER IT IS STILL NOT
CLEAR THAT MOSCOW SEES IT THAT WAY. WE DOUBT THAT THE SOVIETS
PICTURE PORTUGAL AS A POTENTIAL CUBAI IN OUR VIEW, THEY LACK
50TH THE CONFIDENCE IN THE LEFT'S STABILITY AND THE WILLINGNESS
TO BANKROLL AN ECONOMI BAIL-OUT. BUT THERE IS A DANGER THAT
THAT MOSCOW MAY BE TEMPTED TO SEEK SOME KIND OF MILITARY OR
QUASI-MILITARY RELATIONSHIP WITH PORTUGAL AS LISBON'S TIES
WITH NATO DETERIORATE. THE SOVIET REQUEST FOR FUELING
FACILITIES IN MADEIRA IS NOT ALRAMING IN ITSELF, PARTICULARLY
SINCE IT WAS APPARENTLY MADE LAST YEAR, AT A TIME WHEN THE
PORTUGUESE MODERATES WERE IN A MUCH STRONGER POSITION, BUT
WE BELIEVE THAT THE SUVIETS SHOULD BE FUREWARNED THAT ANY ATTEMPT
TO USE THE PORTUGUESE SITUATION FOR MILITARY ADVANTAGE COULD
NOT HELP BUT AFFECT DETENTE NEGATIVELY.
11. I AM AFRAID THAT A PRIVATE APPROACH OF THIS SORT TO
THE SOVIETS WOULD BE UNPRODUCTIVE AND MIGHT BACKFIRE, SINCE
THEY MIGHT WELL LEAK IT TO THE AFM, ALLEGING THAT WASHINGTON
STILL CONSIDERS PORTUGAL A CLIENT STATE. IN MY VIEW A PUBLIC
STATEMENT BY THE SECRETARY -- PERHAPS IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION
AT TODAY'S PRESS CONFERENCE -- WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE. THE
STATEMENT WOULD HAVE TO AVOID ANY IMPLICATION THAT PORTUGAL
COMES UNDER ANY U.S. "BREZHNEV DOCTRINE.' IT COULD FUCUS
ON THE NEED FOR ALL COUNTRIES TO LET PORTUGAL WORK UUT ITS
PROBLEMS FOR ITSELF, ON THE HOPE THAT THE ELECTIONS WILL TAKE
PLACE ON SCHEDULE AND WILL REFLECT THE WILL OF THE PORTUGUESE
PEOPLE, AND ON THE FACT THAT ANY ATTEMPT TO REAP UNILATERAL
ADVANTAGE FROM PORTUGAL'S DIFFICULTIES COULD NOT HELP BUT
AFFECT THE OVERALL CONTEXT OF EAST-WEST RELATIONS. ONCE A
PUBLIC STATEMENT IS ON THE RECORD, A PRIVATE FOLLOW-UP TO
THE SOVIETS MAY CONCEIVAGLY BE USEFUL. I WOULD STRESS,
HOWEVER, THAT It THERE IS ANY FOLLOW-UP, IT SHOULD -- TO BE
MOST EFFECTIVE -- BE PRIVATE, INFORMAL (I,E., NOT A "DEMARCHE"),
UNILATERAL AND NOT REPEAT NOT IN THE NATO CONTEXT.
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SUBJ: BRIEF MEETING WITH DOBRYNIN
WHILE TRANSITING FRANKFURT ROBINSON HAD BRIEF CHAT
WITH DURYNIN, WHO WAS ON HIS WAY TO WASHINGTON.
DODRYNIN WAS IN EXTREMELY JOVIAL FRAME OF MIND AND
LOOKED WELL RESTED. ONLY MATTER OF SUBSTANCE WHICH
AROSE WAS DOBRYNIN'S REMARK THAT HE FELT IT WAS GOOD
THING THAT BOTH SIDES HAD BECOME MORE REALISTIC ON
PROSPECTS FOR TRADE RELATIONS. EXCESSIVE EXPECTATIONS
OF MASSIVE CREDITS AND BILLIONS FUR DEVELOPMENT PRO-
JECTS HAD BEEN DAMPENED, BUT MORE LIMITED PERSPECTIVE
WOULD BE BETTER STARING GOINT FOR DEVELOPING
COMMERCIAL TIES. HIS ADVICE THAT BOTH SIDES SHOULD BE
MORE RELAXED ABOUT THE WHOLE ISSUE ACCORDED WELL WITH
HIS GENERAL MOOD.
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SUBJECT: ROBINSON'S TALKS WITH SOVIET ECONOMIC OFFICIALS
1, SUMMARY: ROBINSON CONCLUDED HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL TALKS WITH SAME
TEAM OF SOVIET OFFICIALS AS YESTERDAY. MUST TIME WAS SPENT ON
ENERGY. DURING FORMAL MEETING SOVIETS HINTED BROADLY THEY HOULD
LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN PRODUCER-CONSUMER CONFERNECE, BUT AT LUNCH
FIRST DEPUTY MINSITER OF FOREIGN TRADE KUZ-1MIN SAID ONLY THAT
INVITATION ROULD BE GIVEN CUNSIDERATION It RECEIVED. RUBINSON
TOOK POSITION THAT WHILE IDEA OF SOVIET PARTICIPATION WAS OF
INTEREST, DECISION ON POSSIBLE PARTICIPANTS WOULD BE MADE AT
PREPCON. SOVIETS REPEATEDLY EXPRESED DESIRE TO CUOPERATE IN
STABLIIZING ENERGY SITUATION SO DETENTE WOULD NOT BE JEUPARVIZED.
THEY SHOWED SPECIAL INTEREST IN OIL PRICE, WHICH THEY REGARDED AS
MAIN ISSUE IN CONSUMER-PRODUCER DIALOGUE. ONLY BILATERAL ISSUES
TO ARISE WEE YAKUTSK AND NORTH STAR GAS PROJECTS. ON YAKUTSK,
ROBINSON CITED HIS LUNG-STANDING PENSONAL INTEREST, AND VOICED
HOPE IT WOULD MOVE FORWARD UN NON-GOVERNMENTAL, COMMERCIAL BASIS.
ALKHIMOV SEEMED ESPECIALLY CONCERNED OVER NORTH STAR PROJECT, NOTIN
TALKS HAD BEEN GOING ON FOR THREE YEARS AND THAT KOSYGIN HAD
RECIEVED COMPANY REPS. ALKHIMOV REGRETTED THAT PROJECT WAS USED
BY SOME TU DETAIMENT OF US-SOVIET RELATIONS. IN REPLY, ROBINSON
ALLUDED TO CONGRESSIONAL PROBLEM AND SA10 we HOPED FOR PRUGRESS.
NO OTHER BILATERAL ISSUES WERE HAISED. IN PARTICULAR, SOVIETS
MADE NO MENTION OF TRADE ACT OF EMIGRATION QUESTION, ON FOOD,
SOVIET SIDE SHOWED NO INTEREST IN MULTILATERAL TALKS ON GRAIN
RESERVES, BUT WAS POSITIVE ON BILATERAL DISCUSSION ALONG LIVES OF
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PAPER GIVEN SOVIET EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON ON MARCH 15. SOVIETS
SUGGESTED SHORT PRESS RELEASE, TO WHICH UNDERSECRETARY AGREED,
NOTING ONLY THAT TALKS HAD BEEN HELD AND THAT THEY HAD COVERED
"MATTERS OF MUTUAL INTEREST TO THE PARTIES." OVERALL, SOVIETS
WERE CORDIAL AND SEEMED IMPRESSED WITH UPEN MANNER OR UNDER-
SECRETARY'S PRSENTATIONS, TAKING VOLUMINUS NOTES AND ASKING
PENETRATING AND INTELLIGENT QUESTIONS, ENU SUMMARY
2, UNDERSECRETARY'S SECOND SESSION WITH SOVIETS HELD TODAY IN
OPEN, FRANK, AND CORDIAL ATMOSPHERE. SOVIET TEAM WAS SAME AS
FIELDED YESTERDAY, I.E., GOSPLAN DEPUTY CHAIRMAN INDZEMISEV DID
NOT APPEAR AS PROMISED AND WAS REPRESENTED BY MORDIVINOV.
3. MOST OF DISCUSSION AGAIN CENTERED ON ENERGY-RELATED ISSUES,
LARGELY INTERMINGLED WITH COMMENTS (IN RESPONSE TO SOVIET QUESTIONS)
REGARDING us RELATIONS WITH LOC. THIS WAS FOLLOWED VYSHORT Ex-
POSITIONS FORM BOTH SIDES ON WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE PROBLEMS, ENDING
UP WITH ANOTHER QUESTION PERIOD. UNDERSECRETARY'S PRESENTATION
TODAY ON ENERGY CENTERED ON PREPARATORY CONFERENCE COMMENCING APRIL
7 IN PARIS AND us VIEWS OF ISSUES LIKELY TO COME UP THERE.
UNDERSECRETARY STRESSED THAT WHILE CONFERNCE SHOULD FOCUS ON
ARRANGMENTS FOR FULL PRODUCER-CONSUMER CONFERRENCE, US
RECOGNIZES THERE WILL BE PRESSURES FOR DISCUSSION OF SUBSTANTIVE
ISSUES. FROM CONSUMER SIDE, MAIN ISSUES AT STAKE IN CONFERENCE
CONCERNED CONSTRUCTIVE USE OF OPEC SURPLUS FUNDS: PROBLEM OF
COOPERATION OF PROVIDING TECHNOLOGY AND MANGEMENT EXPERTISE TO
PRODUCER NATIONS FOR ASSISTING IN THEIR ECOOMIC DEVELOPMENT,
AND PROOUCER-CONSUMER COOPERATION IN REDUCING STRESS CAUSED LDCS
THROUGH OIL PRICE HIKES.
4. SOVIETS SEIZED ON THIS DISCUSSION TO. BONE IN ON SUBJECT
CLEARLY CLOSE TO THEIR HEARTS: LEVEL AT WHICH OIL PRICES MAY
FINALLY SETTLE. LONG GIVE-ANO-TAKE ENSUED, WITH SOVIETS TAKING
POSITION THAT PRICE MUST FINALLY BE SET AT RELATIVELY HIGH LEVEL,
OSTENSILBLY (FROM THEIR VIEWPOINT) TO SITMULATE DEVELOPMENT CF
ALTERNATE ENERGY SOURCES. SOVIETS ALSO REITERATED THEIR VIEW
THAT OIL PRICES CANNUT BE SET IN ISULATION FROM GENERAL PRICE
AGREEMENTS FOR WHOLE RANGE OF RAW MATERIALS, JUSTIFYING THIS WITH
CLAIM THAT IT WAS ONLY WAY FOR LOCS TO ACHIEVE FAIR SHAKE WITHIN
PRODUCER-CONSUMER POWER STRUGGLE.
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5. VARIOUS MEMBERS OF SOVIET TEAM, NOTABLY KUZIMIN AND OSIPOV,
REPEATEDLY STRESSED URGENT "POLITICAL" NEED TO HEACH AN EQUITABLE
AGREEMENT BETWEEN PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS TO STABILIZE ENERGY
SITUATION, $ AS TO AVOID POSSIBILITY OF "CONFRONTATION" WHICH THEY
VIEWED AS PUSSIBLE JEOPARDIZING ENTIRE PROCESS OF INTERNATONAL
DETENTE. SOVIETS ALSO HINTED BROADLY THAT AS MAJOR PRODUCINING
NATION THEY MIGHT WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN WIDER PRODUCER-CONSUMER
CONFERENCE SLATED FOR LATER IN YEAR. UNDERSECRETAYH REPLIED THAT
OBVIOULSLY ENERGY PROBLEM WAS GLOBAL IN NATURE ANU THAT GLOBAL
SOLUTON ATTAINABLE ONLY WITH ACTIVE PARTICIPATIN OF ALL INTERESTED
PARITES. HE AGREED TO PASS ON THIS POSSIBLE SOVIET INTEREST IN
PARTICIPATION, BUT REMINDED SOVIET SIDE THAT DECISIONS AS TO
WHO WILL PARTICIPAATE IN PRODUCER-CONSUMER CONFERENCE COULD BE
MAUE ONLY AT THE PREPCON.
6, OSIPVO REPLIED FOR SOVITS TO UNDERSECREARY'S ENERGY PRESENT-
ATION, GIVING ISSUE BROAD-BRUSH APPROACH WHICH NEVERTHERLESS
CONTAINED NINE GENERAL AREAS OF POSSIBLE COOPERATION SOVIET
WOULD BE WILLING TO CARRY OUT ON EITHER BI-OR MULTI-LATERAL LEVEL
FOR IMPROVING ENERGY SITUTATION. IN ENSUING DISCUSSION, SOVIETS
BROUGHT UP TWO BILATERAL ISSUES: YAKUTSK JUINT JAPANESE/AMERICAN GA
EXPLORATION PROJCT AND NORTH STAR PROJECT. ON YAKUTSK SOVIETS
MENTIONED LAST WEEK'S MEETING IN us OF PARTICIPATING AMERICAN AND
JAPANESE FIRMS TO SEEK WAYS AND MEANS OF FINANCING PROJECT
THROUGH COMMERCIAL CREDITS , ALKHIMOV MENTIONED THAT OCCIDENTAL
AND EL PASO HAD PROPOSED HELPING SOVIETS OBTAIN DOLS 100 MILLION
COMMERCIALLY TO CARRY FORWARD EXPLORATION PROJECT. SOVIETS HAD
NOTET REPLIED TO THIS, ALKHIMOV INDICATED, BUT HE STATED
PROPOSAL IS UNDERER ACTIVE E CONSIDERATION IN SOVIET GOVERMENT CIRC
(COMMENT: OCCIDENTAL'S BOARD CHAIRMAN ARMAND HAMMER ARRIVING
MOSCOW THIS SUNDAY, AT SPASO LUNCHEON TODAY FOLLOWING MEETINGS
SVIETS INDICATED THEY MAY REPLY TO OXY PROPOSAL DURING HIS STAY.
END COMMENT) SOVIETS IN THIS CONTEXT ALSO RAISED POSSIBILITY CF
DOLS 500 MILLION BANK OF AMERICA-SYNDICATED CREDIT RAISED BY BOFA
PRESIDENT CLAUSEN AT RECENT US-USSR TRADE AND ECONDIMIC COUNCIL
EXECUTIVE SESSION. UNDERSECRETARY NOTED SOVIET CONCERNS AND
STATED HIS HOPE THAT IT COULD MOVE FORWARD TO FRUITION ON NON-
GOVERNMENT BASIS.
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7. REGARDING NORTH STAR, SUVIETS DWELT AT LENGTH DURING MEETING,
AND AGAIN AT LUNCH, THAT PROJECT WAS BEING USED BY "CERTAIN
CIRCLES" IN US TO DETAIMENT OF US-USSR ECONUMIC/TRADE RELATIONS
AND THAT SOVIET SIDE BECOMING INCREASINGLY IMPATIENT AT WAY TALKS
ON PROJECT DRAGGING ALONG SEEMINGLY WITHOUT PROGRESS. THEY NOTEO
THAT PERMPAS IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR SOVIET GOVERNMENT 10
ANNOUNCE THAT IT NO LONGER INTERESTED IN COOPERATION WITH US
COMPANIES. AT LEAST, SOVIETS INTIMATED, SOVIET GOVERNMENT MAY
WISH TO SET TIME LIMIT SAY SIX MONTHS FOR DEFINITE PROGRESS TO BE
ACHIEVED TUNARD REACHING AGREEMENT WITH TENNECOT/TEXAS EASTERN/
BROWN AND ROOT GROUP, AFTER EMPUJATION OF WHICH SOVIETS WOULD
DISENGAGE THEMSELVES FROM DEALING WITH US FIRMS ON PROJECT.
8. IN DISCUSSION OF FOOD PROBLEM, SOVIETS EXPRESSED THEIR
DISINTEREST IN MULTILATERAL TALKS ON GRAIN RESERVES. INSTEAD, THEY
REACTED POSITIVELY TO PROSPECTS OF BILATERAL DISCUSSIONS OF THIS
ISSUE ALONG LINES OF PAPER PRESENTED TO SOVIET EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON
ON MARCH 15.
9. KUZIMIN SUGGESTED ISSUING A SHORT PRESS RELEASE REGARDING
UNDERSECRETARY'S TALKS IN MUSCOW. UNDERSECRETARY SAID THAT TRIP
WAS NOT SECRET AND HE HAD NO OBJECTION TO PRESS RELASE IF
SOVIETS FELT IT WOULD BE USEFUL TO THEM. ACCORDINGLY, A SHORT
STATEMENT WAS DRAWN UP NOTING THAT SECRETARY HAD COME TO MOSCOW
FOR TALKS WITH SOVIET GROUP LED BY KUZIMIN AND THAT TALKS HAD
REVOLVED AROUND "MATTERS OF MUTUAL INTEREST TO THE PARTIES.
PRESUMABLY THIS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN TOMORROW'S PHAVDA.
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10. SOVIET ATTITUDE THROUGHTOUT TALKS GENERALLY WAS ONE OF
CORDIALITY AND GOOD WILL, AS EVIDENCED AT LEAST IN PART BY
TOTAL ABSENCE OF REFERENCE TO TRADE ACT OR EMIGRATION QUESTION.
THEY WERE CLEARLYHIGHLY IMPRESSED BY UNDERSICHETARY'S OPENNESS IN
HIS EXPOSITION OF us POSITIONS ON MULTILATERAL ISSUES UNDER
DISCUSSION, AND THEY REACTED BY TAKING VOLUMINOUS NOTES AND BY
ASKING INTELLIGENT, IF POINTED QUESTIONS.
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REF: A. MOSCOW 11281 B. MOSCOW 42071 C. MOSCOW 42411
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1. IN REF A WE EXPRESSED THE VIEW THAT IT WAS. IMPORTANT
TO NAKE CLEAR TO THE SOVIETS THAT FLAGRANTLY AGGRESSIVE
ACTIONS BY MANOI ARE SURE TO HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON THE
DEGREE OF COMMITMENT THAT THE U.S. IS ABLE 10 BRING TO BEAR
ON ITS POLICY OF IMPROVING RELATIONS WITH THE USSR.
2. ALTHOUGH SITUATION HAS DETERIORATED DRASTICALLY SINCE
A- SENT MESSAGE IN JANUARY, I BELIEVE POINT IS STILL VALID
AND THAT IT SHOULD BE MADE TO SOVIETS. IF IT IS SOMETHING
YOU HAVE ALREADY TAKEN UP WITH DOBRYNIN OK PLAN TU RAISE, I
NOULD 8E GLAD TU SUPPORT WITH REPNESENTATIONS HERE IF YOU
FELT THAT ADVISABLE.
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SUBJ: UNDERSECRETARY'S INITIAL MEETING MITH SOVIETS
1. SUMMARY: UNDERSECRETARY BEGAN CONSULTATIONS TODAY
WITH SOVIET TEAM HEADED BY FIRST DEPUTY FOREIGN TRADE
MINISTER KUZIMIN. SOVIET GROUP WAS LARGE AND FAIRLY
MIGH LEVEL, INCLUDING -- BESIDES KUZ'MIN -- TwO DEPUTY MINISTERS
AND ONE FIRST DEPUTY STATE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN. TALKS GOT
OFF TO POSITIVE START, WITH ENTIRE FIRST SESSION DEVOTED
TO TEA AND DOMESTIC US ENERGY PULICY. SOVIETS LISTENED
ATTENTIVELY AND ASKED NUMEROUS QUESTIONS, NONE OF WHICH,
HOWEVER, TOUCHED ON ANY US-USSR BILATERAL ISSUES.
END SUMMARY.
2, UNDERSECRETARY ROBINSON BEGAN MEETINGS THIS MORNING
WITH SOVIET TEMA LEU BY FIRST DEPUTY FOREIGN TRADE
MINISTER M.K. KUZIMIN. OTHERS COMPRISING GROUP OF SOVIET
INTERLOCUTORS INCLUDED:
--V.G. MOROZOV, FIRST DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, STATE
COMMITTEE FOR FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS
-- N.C. OSIPUV, DEPUTY FOREIGN TRADE MINISTER
-- Veha ALKHIMOV, DEPUTY FOREIGN TRADE MINISTER
-- sate CRLOV, HEAD OF FOREIGN TRADE MINISTRY MARKET
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
-- V. N. POLEZHYEV, CHIEF, FOREIGN TRADE MINISTRY
ADMINISTRATION FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS
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-- À. MELINIKOV, DEPUTY CHIEF OF FOREIGN TRADE MINISTRY
ADMINISTRATION FOR TRADE WITH COUNTRIES OF AMERICAS
modaha LYAMIN, ITERPRETER
MOROVINOV SAT IN FOR GOSPLAN DEPUTY CHAIRMAN (FOR FOREIGN
ECONOMIC RELATIONS) N.N. INDZEMTSEV, WHO HAS REPORTEDLY
TIED UP WITH "GOVERNMENT BUSINESS." ME WILL TAKE PART IN
TOMMORROW'S TALKS.
3. KUZIMIN, IN WELCOMING UNDERSECHETARY, SEVERAL TIMES
ALLUDED TO "U.S. SIDE' REQUEST" FOR THESE CONSULTATIONS
AND THAT SOVIETS WERE HAPPY TO RECEIVE WHATEVER INFORMATION
ME M2D TO PROVIDE. UNDERSECRETARY SET RECORD STRAIGHT by
NOTING THAT VISIT WAS IN RESPONSE TO SOVIET REQUEST. HE
STRESSED THAT PURPOSE OF HIS MEETINGS WAS TO RESPOND TO
SOVIET INTEREST IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN
FRANK AND FORTHCOMING MANNER.
4. UNDERSECRETARY OUTLINED TOPICS HE WAS PREPARED TO
DISCUSS WITH SOVIETS DURING THIS VIIST: INTERNATIONAL
ENERGY SITUATION: WORLD-WIDE FOUCO PROBLEM AND US RELATIONS
WITH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, PARTICULARLY REGARDING SUPPLY
BY THEM OF NAW MATERIALS TO US. ENTIRE FIRST SESSION
WAS DEVOTED TU EXPOSITION BY UNDERSECRETARY OF US GUELS
VIS-A-VIS INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY, COUPLED WITH
PRACTICAL STEPS BEING TAKEN DUMESTICALLY TU ALLEVIATE
EFFECTS OF 1973 OIL EMBARGO AND SUBSEQUENT PETROLEUM
PRICE HINCS. UNDERSECRETARY KAN DOWN LIST OF FOUR MAIN
BOJECTIVES UF IEA, STRESSING HOLP AND BELIEF THAT EMERGENCY
CIL-SHARING ARRANGEMENT TO COUNTER EFFECT OF EMBARGO
AGAINST ONEUR MORE IEA MEMBERS WOULD NEVER HAVE TO BE
TESTED. ME FURTHER EMPHASIZEU BENEFICIAL RESULTS TO DATE
IN MULTILATERAL DISCUSSIONS WITHIN IEA ON PROPOSALS FUR
ASSURING FINANCIAL SULIDARITY, PROMOTING CONSERVATION
CONSCIOUSNESS, AND DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF
ENERGY. AGREEMENTS IN PRINCIPLE ON ALL THESE ISSUES AMONG
IEA MEMBERS HAS ALLOWED IEA TO PROCEED WITH PLANS FOR
PREPARATORY CONFERENCE BEGINNING IN PAIRS APRIL 7 WHICH
WOULD ULTIMATELY RESULT IN CONSUMERS-PRODUCERS CONFERENCE
LATER IN YEAR. UNDERSECRETARY ALSO DWELT AT LENGTH ON
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UNILATERAL EFFORTS BEING UNDERTAKEN IN US TO CONTRIBUTE
TO LESSENING UF WORLDWIDE ENERGY CRUCH.
5. SOVIETS LISTENED ATTENTIVELY AND INTERRUPTED FREQUENTLY
WITH QUESTIONS, ESSENCE OF WHICH SEEMED TO BE ATTEMPT TO
ASCERTAIN "REAL"EFFECT OF ENERGY CRISIS ON US ECONOMY.
THEY WERE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN US CLAIMS THAT ITS
OIL CONSUMPTION TO BE REDUCED BY ONE MILLION BARRELS PER
DAY BY END OF YEAR AND TWICE THAT BY END OF 1977 -- WHETHER
THIS ON RELATIVE UR ACTUAL BASIS. THEY FURTHER REQUESTED
GUESSTIMATE AS TO LEVEL AT WHICH WORLD OIL PRICES MAY
EVENTUALLY SETTLE. IN GENERAL, SOVIET QUESTIONS -- WHILE
PROBING -- WERE NON-POLEMIC AND OCCASIONALLY EVEN SCHOLARLY.
THROUGHTOUT DISCUSSION NO BILATERAL ISSUES OF ANY KIND WERE
RAISED BY SOVIET TEAM, WHICH INSTEAD SEEMED GRATEFUL FOR
STRAIGHTFORWARD AND INFORMATIVE APPROACH TAKEN BY UNDER-
SECRETARY TO IEA QUESTION.
6. FULL DAY OF TALKS SLATED FOR TOMORROW, AT WHICH TIME
DISCUSSION EXPECTED TO FOCUS ON FOOD PROBLEM ISSUE ÀS WELL
AS us RELATIONS WITH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
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SUBJECT: ROBINSON MEETING WITH PATOLICHEY
:, LATE AFTERNOON NARCH 25 PATOLICHEY SUDDENLY REQUESTED MEETING
-:Tm ROBINSON, WHICH SEEMED TO UNDERLINE SOVIET SATISHACTION -::-
TALMS AND DESIRE FOR FURTHER COUPERATION IN MULTILATERAL ECONOMIC
FIELD. PATCLICHEV SAID HE HAU RECIEVED FULL REPORT OF ROBINSONIS
SESSIONS WITH SUVIETS DELEGATION AND EXPRESSED SATISFACTIN niin
RESULTS AND APPRECIATION TO ROBINSON. ME SAID ME HOPED THIS ACCLO
55 FIRST OF MANY MEETINGS WITH UNDERSECRETARY,
2. FOLLOWING UP MORNING'S DISCUSSION, PATOLICHEV REITERATED
CONCERN OVER NORTH STAR AND YAKUTSK GAS PROJECTS. ME
EXPRESSED HOPE THAT ROBINSONTS EXPERIENCE IN NATURAL RESOURCES
WOULD ANABLE AIM TC HELP. HLOBINSON SAID ML HOULD DU AMAT 12 COULD,
BUT NOTED PROBLEMS ESPECIALLY WITH CONGRESS.
3. PATOLICHEV REITERATED SOVET CONCERN LEST ENERGY CHISIS
CAUSES *EKENING OF DETENTE. HE KAS EFFUSIVE IN HIS EXPRESSED TO
STRENGTHEN ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH THE US.
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