KOSYGIN IS COOL TO MISSILE CURB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300090117-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 117
• Publication Date: January 10, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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the i iiterion upon which one added: 'The Soviet Union has
KOSYGIN IS COOL hou ilb s~ u
TO MISSILE C ' hould bay oneself in deciding no intention of ever allowing
this problem." the Federal German Republic
TO I,- suggested there worejo gain access to nuclear
Tn MIN IF C1I10"other ways" of solving the' weapons.
In London, He Calls Defense
Build-Up Less Perilous
Than Offensive Arms
people." stockpiles"- a familiar Soviet
It has been argued that if in disarmament talks.
either the United States or the position
Soviet Union built an antimis- I 'We Have Plenty'
set the existing "balance oT'I from strength, not weakttess.l
terror" because the country om take this position not s
with an improved defense mighty c"We ause we have too few weapons
then dare to strike the first but because we have plenty.
blow without fear of being The Soviet Premier insisted
'
wiped out by reprisal action.
I that the spread of nuclear
A new phase m the arms raceweapons "must be banned."
v sold thereby be opened. Relating this issue to his re s 1111- Apart
dange 1 c t in uclma tow phase, econ- PIy on whether there could be a
mists have boggled at the stu-' moratorium on development of
pendou.s cost that would be in-' an antimissile defense system,
volved in providing a country he saiw that here. too, the real
answer was that "mankind
with an antimissile defense sys- most do away with nuclear
tem.
Pre ive."
mier Kosygin dismissed weapons if it is to surv
the "cost" argument. He said recent discussions in-
It might be chaper to buiidi dicated that an agreement would
By DANA ADAMS SCIIMIDTI special to The New York TP
LONDON r Feb. 9 -Premier , 4leski N. Kosygin suggested atl 1 news conference today that systeeve antiballistic missile systems were less dangerous s
and mankind that offensive systems therefore more desirablE leven if they should prove morf costly .
While we
to a question on the sub
r
Iect, he gave no encouragement
to hopes for a morator1a"i'tl"`
velopment as a means of Vot-
ing the arms rare between the
great powers.
In Washington, the De-
fense Department said that
the Joint Chiefs of Staff had
recommended heavy proter-
tion Igainst missiles for 50
of the nation's largest cities.]
Mr. Kosygin's remarks were
made at ta he news conference
given n by
Association. More than 500 re-
porters watched him answer
extemporaneously for more than
an hour.
U.S. Seeks Understanding
United States officials have
tentatively sought an under-
standing with the Soviet Union
that would bar a new expensive
race in the construction of anti-
ballistic missile systems. Wash-
ington officials have reported
that Moscow has begun install-
ing such systems in some parts
of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet leader did say,
however, that he foresaw the
of a treaty
ion "soon'
,
onclus
c to bar the spread' of nulear
weapons. t
The most important d;spdct
of such a treaty from the Soviet
point of view, he made clear,
out
is to keep nuclear weapons
an hands.
m
G
cr
of
The danger that the Soviet
Union was beginning to build
an antiballistic missile defense
system was reported by
dent Johnson in his State of
the Union Message on Jan. 10.
Limited Antimissile System
He said that while increasing
their offensive missile capabili-
ties, the Russians had begun to
place a "limited antimissile de-
fense" near Moscow. He said
the united States was not pre-
pared to spend great amounts
of money now on such a defense
system.
The Soviet Premier declined
to reply directly on what he
acknowledged as "an important
problem of military policy."
Instead he asked this question:
"What heightens military ten-
sion in the world more: an
offensive or a defensive
system?"
His reply was that "a system
that serves to ward off an at-
tack does not heighten the ten-
sion but serves to lessen the
possibility of an attack that
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