DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN ANDREI A. GROMYKO, USSR, AND GUS HALL, GENERAL SECRETARY, COMMUNIST, USA (CPUSA) APRIL, 1974

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-483-3-13-8
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: April 15, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/28: LOC-HAK-483-3-13-8
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HnnISCU$'SIONS PETW*t.ANDkEI A. t'7Rr1MYKC s USSP, AND GUS HALL,
GENERAL SECRFTARY,R, tQQMMUNIST PAPT' , USA (CP11SA) APB' IL, 147
DURING APRILS. 474' A SOUREE, WHO HAS "-OP
Ra=LJARLf INFfRMA~Lak 4N THE PAST, ADVISED AS FOLLOWS:
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NO t3IS5tM .AHL'..i ON APRIL .14 ,, 4" -, GUS HALL., GENERAL SUCPFTARY,
C, MMtUNIST PARTY, USDA :_(CPUSA ), ATTENDED A LUNCHEON CONF ERkN1
AT TIDE SOVIET MISS.40N To T,4F UNITED NATIONS. NEW YIPK CITY,
WITH ANr)REI A. CxRQ. I{],.. MI~,ISTEk 1F FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE
AMONG THE MATTE.SC.;US'SEn WERE THE F;OLLOWING :
ACCORDING TV GR(T$,YKO, -THE SOVIETS CANNOT UNDERSTAND
WHY U.S. PRESYDEN,TAt,,~ON TS SO ' ISLIKED BY EEAOING
CIRCLES IN THE AN V,I--W OF THE HEAVY FINANCING THAT
WAS AVAILABLE FDR fl PRE$ i DEHT' S LAST ELECT IIIN CAMPAIGN
AND IN VIEW ((F H"I Sa ER1.H kt IwG VICTORY. THE SnVIETS CANNOT
UNDF;RSTAND WHY SO. ?I*NY 1:LEAc)ERS rjF FINA.$CEs t,AROR, AND
GrIVFRNMENT ARE NOWT OLEO UP AGAINST H,1'M. GIPS HALL ATTkIHUL
THIS, CHANGE I N ATT ITUf E TO THE-, FACT THAT PRFS I OFNT N I XON
VIOLATED THE MOST E E,MENTARY RULES, THAT GOVi~RN A TvWO-PARTY
SYSTEM, HE ARROGOEO L1O'. MUCH POWER TO HIMSELF AND
SIJRRfUNDED HIMSELF:.WITN P~fipLF, WHO WERE NOT -ACTIVE IN TH
PfLITICAL LIFF OF THE".CQUNTRY`. HE At IENATEo CERTAIN
S CTIONS OF THE R! NI CLASS ANn''rHE LABOR MOVEMENT RY HIS
ECONOMIC POLICIES zAN >4E1"!!E!vDERErI THE OIS;GU$T OF OTHERS
BY ALLOWING HIMS? ,' h' $E,A)R' AWN INTO `THE: NErARIr?US DEEDS
NO r1I SSEM n r ra ,
TL4AT ARF KNOWN AS )1T?-J RGATE . Ar: T?-=R THESE E'PL ANAT I ONS,
HALL BELIEVES THA'; THE SOVIETS ;.Tl,, UNDERSTAND WHY WATFRGAT~
PLAYS SUCH A PRaMf LENT R(.?LC IN THP POLICIES OF THE U.S.
NEVERTHELESS*'' T IS H,,LL'S IMPOFSSIUN THAT THE
S(':!VIFT t)NION IS ?S'f:1l.r PREP,?IRED rJ GO FORWAR: TOv+AR1) SOVIET..
* * * * * * * * #r * * * * *wHSR COMMENT *.
H~;K SCOWCROFT ROOMAN
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/28: LOC-HAK-483-3-13-8
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U.S. I)t=TENTF, ?IUT DOES;aNDT INTEiD TO BE "TA!(EN r'Uk A rt10EI.
TR+E SOVIETS INTEND.TU SHuW THE SO-CALLED "RIGHT-WING
HARf)L INERS", SUCH A$.'SENAT,~~R HEr;Pv JACKSRN, THAT THEY
CANNP-T (DICTATE SOVIET POLICY. ALTHOUGH THEY THINK THAT TH.
U.S. ADMINISTPATION ZS`NOW BACKIN!; DOWN ON SOME AGPEEME