CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM GERARD SMITH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-486-11-4-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 8, 1971
• Content Type: CABLE

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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/
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DEAR HENRY:
1. ON PRESENT TENTATIVE SCHEDULE SALT V HAS ABOUT TWO
WEEKS TO CO..
2. I WILL CONTINUE TO PRESS FOR MORE RADAR CONTROL.
3. HROUGH SEVERAL SPECIAL GROUPS WE' WILL BE . RYING
0 WORK OU ACCEP, ABLE LANGUAGE ACCOMMODA" INS 0 NARROW
DIFFERENCES IN 1EX': S OF CER. AIN SOVIET AND US AR' ICLES, AD
REFERENDCM, REPEAT AD REFERENDUM, FOR WASHING. ON APPROVAL.
4. 1 HAVE STRESSED, WI`ROU SUCCESS, NEED "0 GE ON WI H
OFFENSIVE FREEZE MEASURES NECO IA- ION. ONLY SOVIE OFFENSIVE
MEASURE MOVE WAS TO REJEC. US PROPOSED FREEZE ON SLBM
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F WORD AS "PROPOSAL." (A SOVIE DELEGATE -- SHCHUKIN -- DESCRIBED
EW APPROACH (SIC). HE CORREC'ED IN--ERPRE-~ER' S FIR"S;.' RENDERING
CONS RUC' ION. SOVIETS APPAREN'::'LY DO NO' IN END FUR` HER DISCLOSURE
OF '.-HEIR "OFFENSIVE MEASURES" POSI.. ION UN' IL A' LEAS: AN UNDER-
STANDING ON APM LEVEL HAS BEEN REACHED.
5. I CONTINUE TO HAVE SOME CONCERN ABOUT A DEAL THAT GAVE
SOVIETS RIGHT TO HAVE TWO ABM SYSTEMS -- ESPECIALLY WHILE SCOPE
OF RADAR CON~.ROLS AS YE': UNCLEAR.
BU':" ' 0 PROVIDE WASHING! ON WI - H FAC UAL BASIS FOR FINAL ABM
"LEVEL" DECISION, I PROPOSE TO PRESS SEMENOV FOR SPECIFICS OF THE
ICBM DEFENSE ASPEOT OF THEIR "ONE AND ONE" PROPOSAL OF 7 SEEPTEM$ER.
SEMENOV HAS SAID SPECIFICS AVAILABLE IF WE AGREE IN PRINCIPLE TO THIS
L I' AS "THEIR REAL PROPOSAL" AND SAID "I,' WOULD GIVE HE US HE OP ION
0 HAVE A DEFENSE OF WASHING ON IN HE FLIT URE SHOULD YOU SO DESIRE
AND IT WOULD GIVE THE USSR A SIMILAR OPTION TO DEFEND AN ICBM FIELD.")
LIKELY MINIMUM PRICE OF ADMISSION TO SPECIFICS OF NEW PROPOSAL
IS INDICATION TO SEMENOV THAT WASHINGTON'S FIRST REACTION TO PROPOSAL
IS INCLINED TO BE POSITIVE BUT DEFINITIVE REACTION IS DEPENDENT ON
CLEARER UNDERSTANDING WHICH ONLY IS ATTAINABLE IF SPECIFICS ARE
DISCLOSED. IF THERE IS OBJECTION TO MY TAKING THIS POSITION,
pLEASE~ ADVISE. HOPE TO REACH YOU BY PHONE TODAY.
WARM REGARDS.
GERRY :1 IT H
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State Dept. review completed
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/20: LOC-HAK-486-11-4-6