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    "ocrText": "Richardson/Kissinger\n9:00 am\n2/10/70\n-2-\nK: The President could just say I hope. As long as we are talking\nthere are a couple of things. One is that proposal of a demarche to the\nSoviets. The Sisco one. I haven't shown it to the President yet whether\nyou should call in Dobrynin. I should think the President's instincts will be\nto let Beam do it because Beam complained about not having enough.\nR: I would support that. I wondered whether I should have him change that.\nK: I don't know where the President's views will be . I am leery of\nchanneling everything through Dobrynin. In some cases there is an advan-\ntage in having it go through someone who doesn't have all the details.\nHe is less flexible. And there is some advantage to having things go\ndirectly.\nFinally, AUDA. I haven't seen that cable you referred to. What\ninstructions were you talking about? To Bea m?\nR: yes a cable to Beam Gerry was away over the weekend. I talked to\nhim yesterday and told him that I had questions about it and didn't want to\nsend it to the WH in that form. The upshot was that he was going to talk\nto you in general terms.\nK: He hasn't done it yet. He (the President) is restive with the Advisory\nCommittee of ACDA. He feels that if it had been run as it was told it would\nnot have gotten out of control. They are taking testimony and only to\nembarrass him. Our impression is that while ACDA did not encourage\nthem they didn't discourage them.\nR: They felt that, based on my talk with Gerry, it was exceedingly hard\nto do.\nK: What the President meant to say -- he wanted to put to them that he\nwas flexible on MIRV and ABM. But he didn't expect them to make separate\nstudies. We will make new rules so that they cannot interpret except through\nwritten instructions. We are not unreasonable on his negotiating.\nR: On Gerry's account, I saw a memo from Cy Wise who had had lunch\nwith Gen. Allison and he went out of his way to say how faithful Gerry\nhad been in Helsinki.\nK: In Helsinki he was. This President reacts badly on what he considers\nbureaucratic ploys.\nR: I will talk to McCloy.\nK: The President will be talking to him tomorrow."
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