U.S. AND SOVIET NEARER ACCORD ON NEW EMBASSIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01039R002204380025-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2013
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: September 23, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE NEW 1;ORIC TIMES, SATi
U. S . and Soviet Nearer Accord on New Embassies
Hays Inspects Moscow Site
?Speedy Congressional
Approval Is Expected
By HENRY KAMM
Special to The New York Times
build new embassies in Moscow
United States and the Soviet
Union have taken an important
step toward agreements to
build new embassies in Moscow
and Washington.
The State Department
has approved in principle a
building site in central Mos-
cow and has gained important
Congressional support for the
project.
Representative Wayne L.
Hays, chairman of a House for-
eign affairs subcommittee on
State Department operations,
inspected the site this week
and indicated in conversations
with Russian officials that
he was confident of speedy
Congressional approval.
The Ohio Democra came
here on an unpubliciz d 24-
hour visit, at the sug estion
of the State Departm t, to
examine the site and meet with
officials of the Foreign Minis-
try, the city architect's office
and the organization that pro-
vides services ,to the diploma-
tic corps.
Possible Washington Sites
The Soviet Union is interest-
ed in one of two sites in Wash-
ington. One is an abandoned
veterans' hospital on Wisconsin
Avenue north of Georgetown.
The other is the Tregaron es-
tate in a residential section in
the Northwest.
No full-fledged negotiations
were possible, however, until
the United States felt assured
of a comparable location in
Moscow. The stage appears set
now for such talks.
It is believed to be the first
time in United States diplomat-
ic history that the building of
a new embassy has been sub-
jected to protracted discussions
on an exchange of sites. Ameri-
cans and Russians have ap-
proached the problem with a
wo keen eye on giving the other
nd no more than they thought they
t a were gtting.
ar The sites under discussion
ted,have been chosen to assure
of reasonable equality in situa-
nal'tion, size, and proximity to the
Foreign Ministry or State De-
rs. partment and to the center of
the city. Both sides appear to
en-
on be satisfied that, given the dif-
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