CABLE TO SCOWCROFT/KISSINGER FROM BUD MCFARLANE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-507-4-19-4
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: May 31, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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GOMPERT/RODMAN for SCOWCROFT/KISSINGER
FROM: BUD MCFARLANE
1. The following oral message has just been delivered by
Yuri Babenko.
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3. Warm regards.
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Dear Mr..President,
ley collegues and I deem it necessary to approach you in con-
nection with some statements made recently by officials of the
United States.
First of all it concerns a statement by the US Secretary of
Defence Llr.Schlessinger about possible use by the United States
of nuclear weapons. against the Soviet Union and other member-; tates
of the Warsaw Treaty.
How do we have to understand this official statement made by
the US Secretary of Defence to the Congress of the United States?
In the Basic Principles of relations between the USSR and the US
signed in 1972 during the first Soviet--.American summit meeting
both sides decleared that they will do their utmost to avoid miii.
tart' confrontations and to prevent the outbre.k of n>rlan, r....Yr.
Then in 1973 our two countries concluded a special Agreement on f
prevention of nuclear war by which the Soviet Union and the United
States -pledged to act in such a way as to exclude the outbreak of
nuclear war between them and between each of the parties and other
countries.
It is obvious that the abovementioned statement of the US
Secretary of Defence in no way corresponds ,neither to those so.,et
obligations taken by our countries, nor to numerous statements that
followed about determination of both sides to continue the course
at relaxation of tension and at strengthening peace, nor, finally,
to the spirit of our talks with you in Vladivostok.
Nothing is changed by a reference in the US Secretary of Le-
fence's statement to some hypothetical possibility of a Soviet
attack on 7estern Europe with the use of conventional, forces. A
question arises who and why needs this fiction kindred to detective
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stories.
We are bewildered, Mr.President, by this fact. And, of course,
it would be good to clarify the real sense of those statements and
the aims they pursue.
I would not be completely frank if I did not tell you, Mr.Pre-
sident, that we were surprised also by some phrases contained accor-
ding to the Western press in your speech before the Council of NATO
in Brussels. Quite recently you correctly answered to the opponents
of the policy of relaxation of tension that this relaxation is ne-
cessary and advantageous to all countries, that it serves their com-
mon interests -- the preservation of peace. Yet now, if to believe
the reports of the press, you call upon your partners in NATO to
work out such a programm of relaxation which would serve only the
interests of NATO countries but. not the interests of others, who
adhere to other ideals. But this is precisely the very onesided
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direction - which you rightly rejected yourself. And in this con-
nection also certain questions arise.
I would be grateful to you, Mr.President, if you could share
your thoughts with us on the questions I have touched upon.
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