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    "ocrText": "Amb. Dobrynin/Kissinger\n9:10 a. m.\n5/11/71\n-10-\nD: I don't know what to report. Semonov only reported something two months\nold.\nK: Smith thinks it's a formal proposal. This will force us to respond in\nplenary session. Then you reject it and everyone knows we have a deadlock.\nD: We can work it. Semonov is telling you a position two months old. Ther's\nnothing about the proposal that's new. Only two men here know.\nK: It's funny that what he thinks is what I know to be true.\nD: The difference between us was before or after ABM, the freezing. You\nraised it last moment less\nthe two cities. We have done what your\ngovt. has asked. Semonov said nothing about that.\nK: I told the President three weeks ago that you were making (promising)\nmoves and we were going to make progress. It will raise --\nD: They are talking different things. It's an old position.\nK: I can hold Smith here until Tues of next week. If we don't have a reply form\nyou we will have to give him a reply. You know what it will be and it will be in\nthat channel.\nD: I can make it easier. You listen to Smith and ask him the crucial question.\nDoes he understand?\nK: He thinks it can be negotiated.\nD: Then let's discuss it with Semonov again and IXEXIXXXXX repeat it. He will say\nit will be IXIX no. You will have an offical anser from me. Semonov will not have\nit officially. Then they can clarify the points. Hecan ask before or after. Then\nyou will have reply. It will be for their own amusement.\nK: I will discuss it with the President. It's a bureaucratic fine point. The fact\nof the matter is that in a matter we have handled with discretion here is now a\npart of the record of our bureaucracy. It creates internal problems for us which\nwe can handle but we could have gone to Semonov first.\nD: You can do that. He can hahdle it.\nK: Do you want to deal with the President or the bureaucracy?\nD: Semonov says he discussed what was before."
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