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SUBJECT: GUIDANCE FOR INF NEGOTIATING GROUP ON SOVIET PROPOSAL
REF:
(A) NST GENEVA 00464 (INF ASSESSMENT CABLE);
(B) STATE 12553 (INF INSTRUCTIONS FOR ROUND IV)
1. (S) ENTIRE TEXT.
2. WASHINGTON HAS COMPLETED ITS ASSESSMENT OF NEW SOVIET
PROPOSAL, HAS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED THE VIEWS OF OUR ALLIES AND
APPRECIATES NEGOTIATING GROUP INPUT/RECOMMENDATIONS.
3. THE SOVIET PROPOSAL FOR ZERO US AND SOVIET LRINF MISSILES IN
EUROPE WITH NO BUILDUP IN UK AND FRENCH FORCES PROVIDES THE
OPPORTUNITY TO ASSERT SOVIET ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF
US/SOVIET EQUALITY. HOWEVER, AGREED CONSTRAINTS ON UK AND FRENCH
FORCES, AS WELL AS ON OUR EXISTING PATTERNS OF COOPERATION WITH
US ALLIES ARE PRECONDITIONS FOR THE PROPOSAL WHICH REMAIN
UNACCEPTABLE.
4. SINCE THE SOVIET UNION APPEARS TO HAVE MOVED MORE IN INF
THAN ELSEWHERE, AND IN KEEPING WITH THE COMMITMENT IN THE SUMMIT
JOINT STATEMENT TO ACCELERATE PROGRESS AND TO SEEK A SEPARATE
INTERIM INF AGREEMENT, A US COUNTERPROPOSAL IS APPROPRIATE. OUR
OBJECTIVES IN PRESENTING THIS COUNTERPROPOSAL ARE TO:
--ATTEMPT TO EXPLOIT APPARENT SOVIET MOVEMENT: SOVIET ACCEPTANCE
OF PRINCIPLE OF US/SOVIET LRINF EQUALITY; AND ACCEPTANCE OF A
ROLE OF OSI AND OTHER MEASURES BEYOND NTM IN VERIFYING THE
AGREEMENT, AND DEFERRING UK/FRENCH PARTICIPATION.
-PRESS THE SOVIETS TO REACH AND IMPLEMENT AN INF AGREEMENT,
CONSISTENT WITH US PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTIVES, WITHOUT LINKAGE TO
ISSUES IN OTHER AREAS AND SDI.
--PRESS THE SOVIETS ON ISSUES WHERE THEY ARE SILENT, PARTICULARLY
THE NEED FOR REDUCTION OF SOVIET SYSTEMS IN ASIA, AS PART OF AN
INF AGREEMENT.
-PREVENT THE SOVIETS FROM APPEARING MORE COMMITTED TO DEEP
REDUCTIONS THAN IS THE US. OUR ZERO/ZERO PROPOSAL HAS BEEN ON
THE TABLE SINCE 1981 AND WE SHOULD STRESS THIS.
5. INF NEGOTIATING GROUP IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING
PROPOSAL TO SOVIET SIDE. US INF NEGOTATING GROUP SHOULD MAKE
CLEAR THAT THE US CONTINUES FIRMLY TO BELIEVE THAT THE BEST
SOLUTION REMAINS THE GLOBAL ELIMINATION OF THE ENTIRE CLASS OF US
AND SOVIET LAND-BASED LRINF MISSILES. WE ARE PREPARED PROMPTLY
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