MYSTERY KISSINGER-DOBRYNIN MEETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000200010011-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2007
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 16, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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-THE WASHINGTON POST
16 December 1980
To the refief of many- veaple - from posal was unacceptable; had misinter- forgeries must have f i`e'approval of ehe
liberal Democrats to conservative Re- preted the Soviet position and should Politburo itself, and. thus indicate a
publicans' _. -Henry Kissinger will - be rejected b3 the'Russians. Kissinger significant' political move- by the
probably have ne official position in. also told the Soviet ambassador, ac- Kremlin. If the.Dobryniri cable was in-
Ronald Reagan's adrninisbration. cording to the, sill!-secret cable, that deed a fake sent out; attar; Trigon
But. thanks to..his couing ;sun- Carter's policy on human rights merely had been compromised - it points to
port `Republic "circles, including' . -showed the naivete and' weakness of a hostility toward SALT II from the
steadfast endorsement Ioy former.' the new president and his 'national se- highest level of the Soviet government.
president Gerald. Foal, the charming, curity advc,er, Zbigniew Brzezinski. It showed a willingness by the Kremlin
.,German-borne ex-Harvard professor In' addition, according to the ultra- to discredit not only Kissinger, but the
sti !;may have powerful influence in secret cable, Kissinger told Dobrynin very able welk-41
tFie new r$gi>ne f ,a, ~ 11M still had some sources on the Na- The CIA's-deputy' chief of : counter-
tional Security Council, and fully ex- -intelligence was ordered. to submit an
One f the mill reasons Kissinger pect,to stay ' current on. develop- "operational- analysis".on the Dobrywas. considered, a z'-pasr ".chance: for Y .. ments iwithin that- agency that would inn cable. ' Sources told.: my associate
nwninat un- as t ax's .secretary of _:be of interest to the Soviets... .Dale -VanAtta that the -CIA official's
state is the distinct }ssssibility that If the Dobiynin-cabl(ewas authentic report concluded that what Kissinger j
c on?matien - hearings -an the- Senate '' = and accurate it` constituted evi- had done "bordered on treason: "
world" touch off.;apslitfcal bloodbath: dente .
of hear-tr eason against the for- .The report was= pigeonholed by -the 4
-'that the,'incoming-=president:,doesn fit met secretary of state.:- White House. Its-author was removed
;i The .Carter "administration" treated from his headquarters post and trans-
One of the reaaons'a.Kisaingercon- the Dobrynin cable as if it were radio- (erred overseas.
- firrnstiien hearing`'ceuld--Imd-:to such' active. Brzezinski; when told about it It. is skeletons like'these in Kissing- i
an e-xplosiou'is his mysterious meeting by CIA chief Stanfield Turner, re- - .er's closet that-kept the Reagan people
with Soviet Ambassador AuatolyDo-: portedly said something to the effect from naming-the former secretary to a I
brynin en April.11,;-19'7 --- less than of, _"My God, this is.political dyne- _ post that would require Senate confir-.
three:-. months -after-Jimmy, Carter mite!" He. ordered - its 'dissemination mation. r _.
moved into the White House. Reagan's ; : heavily restricted: Incredibly, the mi- Cut-Rate Clearance -- Nepotism is
advisers are worried aesutthe meeting crofilmed--copy-of. the- cable -disap- -a budgetary. bonus at the CIA -when it
- anti with geed reason., geared. comes to summer jobs. The young, peo-;
Kissinger has-never said what went ' There was a hitch to the dynamite } ple who tend-to-get hired .for-: gofer
-on at the session. The only account of -cable; however. It was the last trans- jobs during `the vacation. season are
what might have'beei said was con-' mission the CIA got from Trigon be' children of?.? CIA employes. As an
taine4 in a cable from the Soviet Em- fore he was arrested by the KGB: So agency source explained: "Even : the
bossy to the Kremlin.- The six-page - some experts believe that it "was a most menial job-at Langley [headquar-
cal3le was turned over t (the CIA by its deliberate-- piece --of ? disinformation tern) requires a security investigation.
top agent in Moscow, a- nssian whose cooked- up by the Kremlin. Forgeries Why spend $1,000 for- an 18-year-old
code-name was "Trigeri." are old stuff for the Russian secret ser- to get cleared,'.when the children of
A. r dlrrg to Dobrynin's'cable, Kos- employes have already been mnvesti
inger told liuzs Carterlk SALT II pro-:-', What women the'CIA is that such gated "
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