CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 7, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIRECTORATE OF
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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c 196,
7 August 1970
State Department review completed
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West Germany - USSR: The two countries will prob-
ably initial today a treaty renouncing the use of
force. (Page 5)
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West Germany~- USSR: The two countries probably
will initial today a treaty renouncing the use of
force that is little changed from the earlier Bahr-
Gromyko draft.
Foreign Minister Scheel has informed the West-
ern Allies that consultation will follow in Bonn.
Scheel?s initialing of the treaty will virtually
commit: West Germany to signature, however.
The Western Allies have been seeking a reaffir-
mation of four-power rights in West Berlin and West
Germany in connection with this agreement. The So-
viets have declined, however,. to publish any written
statement on this subject in their own name, In-
stead, a West German note to the three Western pow-
ers is to quote from oral statements on four-power
rights by the West German and Soviet foreign minis-
ters, thus providing only an indirect reaffirmation.
Despite assurances from Scheel that he would
deal with the need to indicate that the present
treaty is no final peace treaty, the latest draft
text says nothing explicit on this question, Scheel
has nevertheless suggested that the reaffirmation
of four-power rights in itself implies that no peace
treaty has been concluded since any such treaty
would do away with those rights.
In addition, the text of the treaty has been
adjusted to make the commitment to "respect" postwar
borders appear as an amplification and specific ap-
plication of the renunciation of force, This is in-
tended to make the de facto recognition of borders
seem less like a new concession or an anticipation
of an eventual peace treaty, and hence more palatable
to the West German public.
As planned earlier, the West Germans will is-
sue a letter asserting the German right to national.
unity. Scheel now expects Gromyko to reply to the
letter without contradicting the West German claim.
The treaty preamble now also contains a reference
to the 1955 Soviet - West German agreement. As this
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agreement mentioned the right of the Germans to na-
tional unity, Bonn will argue that reference to it
provides further confirmation of German national
rights.
The Soviets have made no major concessions.
Nevertheless, the agreement is now more satisfactory
from the West German standpoint. If some agreement
can be worked out on Berlin, this treaty. will prob-
ably be ratified by the West German parliament.
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