THE BERLIN ISSUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-259-3-42-5
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: March 2, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/06/21 : LOC-HAK-259-3-42-5
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TO LARRY EAGLEBURGER FOR SEC. KISSINGER
TO: SECRETARY KISSINGER
FROM: HELMUT SONNENFELDT
SUBJECT: TI,;.BfRLIN ISSUE
1. THE IMMEDIATE PROBLEM IN YOUR DISCUSSION IN BONN ABOUT BERLIN
AND THE FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY IS THAT WE DO NOT REPEAT
NOT KNOW AT THIS TIME HOW FAR BAHR AND BREZHNEV HAVE GONE IN
ARRANGING A BARGAIN. (HIS LAST MESSAGE TO YOU INDICATED THAT WE
AND THE GERMANS SHOULD FIRST AGREE TO CONFORM OUR POSITIONS. YOUR
REPLY AGREED.) WE DO KNOW THAT GERMAN EMBASSY IN MOSCOW CONCEDED
THAT BERLIN WAS IN FACT A MAJOR ISSUE IN BAHR PRESENTATIONS. (BAHR
APPARENTLY STAYING TILL GROMYKO RETURNS NEXT WEEK AND HE MAY NOT
BE ABLE TO CONTACT YOU BEFORE YOUR BONN VISIT ON WHAT TRANSPIRED.)
OBVIOUSLY, SOVIETS ARE PLAYING BOTH ENDS, TALKING PRIVATELY WITH
BAHR AND BRANDT, AND MAKING PRIVATE OVERTURES TO US IN VORONTSOV-
RUSH CONVERSATIONS.
2. THE SOVIETS WANT TO CONSULT WITH US PRIVATELY IN ORDER THAT ANY
MORE FORMAL FOUR POWER TALKS WILL "SUCCEED." OUR READING OF
VORONTSOV'S PITCH IS THAT MOSCOW IN FACT WANTS A -PACKAGE DEAL,"
THOUGH IT WAS UNUSUAL FOR THE PITCH TO BE MADE TO RUSH RATHER
THAN TO YOU OR SCOWCROFT.
3. YOUR AIM, IF YOU WANT TO PURSUE THIS SOVIET OPENING, IS TO
REACH A CONSENSUS WITH BRANDT ON THE SUBSTANCE OF A PACKAGE DEAL.
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HOWEVER, YOU SHOULD AVOID BEING MANEUVERED INTO ACCEPTING THE ONUS
FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS ON GERMAN PRESENCE IN BERLIN, WHICH SDP
LEADERSHIP WOULD CLEARLY LIKE TO PLACE ON THREE POWERS FORT THEIR
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A. THE SOVIETS WOULD ARE NOT TO CONTEST THE ESTAgJSHMENT
OF THE FEA IN BERLIN; IN RETURN THE THREE WESTERN POWERS WOULD
ISSUE AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME A STATEMENT APPROVING THE FEA AND
HAT QA REMAINS IN FORCE, INCLUDING PROVISION THAT WESTERN
SECTORS ARE NOT PART OF FRG (THE LATTER TO PLACATE SOVIETS).
B. ON THIS BASIS, I.E., IN RETURN FOR OUR SUPPORT ON FEA,
BRANDT WOULD HAVE TO SUSPEND FOR REMAINDER OF 1974 ESTABLISH-
MENT OF ANY NEW OFFICE FOR WEST BERLIN, BUT WITHOUT PUBLICLY
STATING THIS OR BLAMING ALLIES; YOU WOULD GIVE THIS ASSURANCE
TO SOVIETS.
C. WESTERN ALLIES WOULD ALSO ISSUE A BERLIN KOMMANDATURA
LETTER APPROVING FEA ALONG LINES OF DECEMBER 19 KOMMANDATURA
LETTER WHICH STATES THAT AGENCY WILL OPERATE SUBJECT TO THE
RESERVED RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITY OF THE THREE POWERS; THUS,
ANY STUDIES OR RECOMMENDATIONS OF FEA WOULD BE SUBJECT TO
ALLIED VETO. SOVIETS WOULD THEN USE THIS ALLIED STATEMENT TO
MAKE THEIR OWN STATEMENT ON FEA ESTABLISHMENT, SAYING THAT
IT WAS CONSISTENT WITH QA, IN THAT IT HAD NO STATE FUNCTION
AND WAS A HUMANTARIAN INSTITUTION, E.G., ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION.
D. ALL OF THE FOREGOING WOULD HAVE TO BE CONDITIONED ON
SOVIET ASSURANCE THAT THREATS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, TO ACCESS
WOULD BE WITHDRAWN, AND STATEMENT BY SOVIETS REAFFIRMING UN-
HINDERED ACCESS WOULD HAVE TO BE ISSUED IN SOME MANNER.
5. WHOLE PACKAGE WOULD HAVE TO BE WORKED OUT WITHOUT GOING
INTO FORMAL CONSULTATIVE MECHANISM, BUT MIGHT BE SURFACED IN
FOUR POWER CONSULTATIONS WITH SOVIETS.
6. YOU MIGHT TRY SOMETHING ALONG THIS LINE ON BRANDT, BUT
FIRST YOU MAY WANT TO FIND OUT FROM HIM IF BREZHNEV HAD MADE
ANY PROPOSALS.
7. EVEN IF YOU CAN WORK OUT SCENARIO WITH BRANDT, THE PROBLEM
WILL REMAIN OF BRINGING IN BRITISH AND FRENCH AT PROPER TIME.
FRENCH IN PARTICULAR MAY BE DIFFICULT TO HANDLE, SINCE I BELIEVE
THEY ARE PERFECTLY PREPARED TO TAKE A TOUGHER LINE WITH BONN
AND WOULD OF COURSE RESENT ANY EVIDENCE OF US-GERMAN-SOVIET
DEALINGS. BRITISH DESIRE FOR PERIOD OF QUIET, MENTIONED IN
YOUR LONDON TALKS WITH HOME, WOULD PRESUMABLY HOLD FOR ANY
GOVERNMENT THAT COMES INTO BEING. IN ANY EVENT, BRITISH
WEAKNESS IS ADDITIONAL REASON FOR TRYING FOR MODUS VIVENDI.
S. APPROACH IN THIS MESSAGE GENERALLY CONSISTENT WITH JUDG-
MENTS O N SOVIET PURPOSES IN TOSEC 309 AND O N GERMAN ATTITUDES
IN BONN'S 3375, WHICH YOU HAVE.
9. BILL HYLAND CONCURS.
10. WARM REGARDS.
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