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TELECON Mr. Kissinger/Ambassador Dobrynin 6:05 p. m., May 28, 1971 K: Anatoliy, I am unhappily calling you about the matter we discussed a week ago today. I gave you the wrong information about the submarine. I told you at the time we thought the submarine was a diesel. You told me nuclear subs were under the control of the Politburo. D: It was announced as a submarine without telling what, K: I wanted to inform you there is a submarine tied up together with the tender. It is nuclear-powered and has 8 missiles on it of the 250-300 mile range. D: That was not a condition of a "visit. 11 K: The understanding as we understand it -- is servicing of nuclear submarines and submarines carrying offensive weapons in or from Cuban ports. D: What servicing? In what way are they servicing? K: If a submarine is there independently -- but it is tied up with the tender. We will not debate it, but at the best, it is at the very edge of the understanding. I wanted to point out that our information last Friday was not good. DL I don't have any information except what was published in our press. K: The appearance of a nuclear submarine with missiles of a 300-mile range and tied up with the tender is. You can have no doubt how gravely we would consider violations of the understanding. Whether this is a violation we don't have to debate now, and we will not make any public statement for the timebeing. D: The understanding in Moscow is that a visit which is published beforehand K: It's a combination of the visit of the nuclear submarine and the tender and those two being together is a very unfortunate incident. D: I will transmit that you say this is unfortunate. As it was announced, I don't know whether they do anything about it.

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