US-SOVIET BILATERAL EXCHANGES SINCE THE GENEVA SUMMIT

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• Publication Date: May 23, 1986
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MEMORANDUM FOR: See Distribution
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SUBJECT: US-Soviet Bilateral Exchanges Since the Geneva Summit n 25X1
The attached paper, prepared by an Intelligence Assistant in SOYA, is
meant to give senior Agency officers an overview of the official US-Soviet
relationship apart from nuclear and strategic arms control.
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US-Soviet Bilateral Discussions Since the Geneva Summit
The joint US-Soviet statement issued last fall at the conclusion of
President Reagan's meeting in. Geneva with Soviet leader Gorbachev called for
future US-Soviet consultations and cooperation in a number of areas other than
nuclear and strategic arms control issues. This memorandum reviews the status
of discussions on each of these issues.
Exchanges
Cultural. A US-Soviet general agreement on cultural exchanges was signed
on 21 November 1985 following the summit and took effect immediately. It
calls for general agreements on people-to-people contacts, educational and
cultural exchanges, and cooperative agreements in scientific, technical and
other fields.
In December 1985, USIA Director Charles Z. Wick met Culture Minister Petr
Demichev and then Chief of the CPSU International Information Department
Leonid Zamyatin in Moscow. He discussed Soviet jamming of Voice of America
and Radio Liberty broadcasts and specific exchanges:
-- The April visit to Moscow by Russian-born pianist Vladimir Horowitz.
-- A major exhibition of French impressionist paintings from the
Washington National Gallery opened at Leningrad's Hermitage Museum on
1 February and closed on 30 April.
-- A US exhibition tour of art by Moscow's Pushkin Art Museum and
Leningrad's Hermitage Museum opened a two-month stint at the
This paper, prepared in the Directorate of Intelligence by
the Office of Soviet Analysis,
Comments or questions may be addressed to the author
Chief, Strategic Policy Division,
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scientists to share the details with US scientists.)
National Gallery on 1 May and will be shown for two months in the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art. It constitutes the largest collection
of impressionism and post-impressionism to leave the Soviet Union.
-- Performances in the US and Canada ;by the Kirov Ballet: Vancouver, 14-
17 May; Los Angeles, 21-26 May; Philadelphia, 28-31 Ma-y; Wolftrap, 2-5
June; Montreal, 6-8 June; and Ottawa, 11-14 June.
Health. Two US-Soviet cooperative agreements on health cooperation were
reactivated on 10 March. The two agreements--the Medical Science and Health
Agreement and the Artificial Heart Research and Development Agreement--were
agreed upon in May 1984, but their implementation was delayed pending Moscow's
decision to allow Yelena Bonner to seek medical attention in the West. The US
Department of Health and Human Services will undertake expansion of joint
health cooperation, including visits to the Soviet Union by the director of
the National Institutes of Health and the Surgeon General, and a US-hosted
joint health committee meeting is planned for late 1986.
Environmental. During late November 1985, EPA Administrator Lee M.
Thomas traveled to Moscow to discuss the activity of 30-40 working groups
considering such issues as urban environment, air pollution, the Arctic, the
greenhouse effect, and nuclear winter. On 1 March the US Deputy Chief of
Mission in Moscow conveyed President Reagan's interest in pursuing Gorbachev's
Geneva offer on earthquake predictions to MFA USA Division Director
Bessmertnykh. (At the summit, Gorbachev had offered to provide details on
predictions by the Soviet Institute of Earth Sciences of the probability of an
earthquake in California within the next three years. They judge there is a 2
out of 3 chance of a quake of a magnitude of 7.0 to 7.5 on the Richter Scale
and a 3 out of 4 chance of a 6.0 to 6.5 quake. Gorbachev said that this is
new, unpublished information and that the Soviets are ready for their
Scientific. In April, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs John D. Negroponte met with
Soviet Academy of Sciences Vice President Yevgeniy Velikhov in Moscow to
discuss nuclear fusion cooperation, Soviet computer education, and US-Soviet
science cooperation.
Human Contacts. Ambassador Michael Novak, head of the US delegation to
the CSCE Human Contacts Meeting in Bern, consulted with Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (MFA) officials on 14 March in Moscow. The Bern conference, which
began on 15 April and is to conclude on 26 May, involved diplomats from the 35
countries which signed the Helsinki Accords in 1975. The delegates are
discussing, mostly behind closed doors, such topics as lifting restrictions on
East-West travel, reuniting families separated by the division of Europe,
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facilitating cross-border marriages and improving sporting ties. Because the
Soviets have adopted an increasingly negative and uncooperative attitude, the
EC states have hardened their approach, and a final communique may well not be
cooperati on.
USIA's Coordinator of the President's US-Soviet Exchange Initiative,
Steven Rhinesmith, visited Moscow from 17 to 21 March to discuss 36 private
sector programs. No agreements or protocols were signed. An example of a
program that was discussed is a proposed sports photography exhibition which
may be the centerpiece of a broad series of programs involving athletes,
coaches and specialists in sports medicine. Mr. Rhinesmith proposed the
simultaneous television broadcast of a public education program on cancer to
inaugurate implementation of the Geneva exchange initiative on cancer research
Trade
In December 1985, Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige visited Moscow
for a non-governmental US-USSR Trade and Economic Council Conference in which
some 400 American businessmen participated.
aircraft in determining their positions.
North Pacific Air Safety Agreement
On 29 January an aviation pact designed to improve the safety of
commercial flights over the North Pacific took effect among Japan, the USSR,
and the US. Agreement on the pact was achieved during three rounds of
negotiations held last year in Washington ( February), in Moscow ( May), and
in Tokyo (July), and it was signed in Washington on 19 November 1985. Under
the agreement, the three nations are to set up emergency communication lines
between civil aviation Area Control Centers in Tokyo, Khabarovsk, and
Anchorage. The agreement specifies actions the three countries are to take to
assist aircraft in trouble. In addition, a direct telephone line is to be set
up between the centers in Tokyo and Khabarovsk, and the countries are to study
the possibility of using a Soviet broadcast station as a radio beacon to aid
Civil Air
A bilateral agreement concerning the amendment of the 1966 Civil Air
Transport Agreement was effected by an exchange of notes initialed in
Washington on 13 February. Under its terms, Pan American World Airways has
been authorized to overfly Soviet territory en route to New Delhi and Karachi
from Europe (Pan Am has succeeded in obtaining overflight clearances from all
countries on this route: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, USSR and
Afghanistan). In April Pan Am began flights to Moscow and Leningrad, and
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Aeroflot began flights to Washington and New York. A maximum of four flights
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Consulates
President Reagan and Gorbachev agreed in November to the simultaneous
opening of Consulates-General in New York and Kiev. At talks in Moscow on 12-
13 February, the parties agreed that in implementing the agreement they would
be guided by the principles of reciprocity and equivalence and that the
personnel ceiling is to be set at 30 for each consulate. A Soviet team
traveled to New York on 20 February to see the property the Soviets plan to
occupy in two adjacent buildings at 9 and 11 91st Street. At an as yet
unscheduled date, a US advance party plans to take possession of the consulate
complex at Streletskaya Ulitsa in Kiev and to conclude a mutually acceptable
site exchange and lease agreement. Based on the principle of reciprocity, the
Soviet side agreed to lease the land on which the consulate is located for a
period of 99 years and to give ownership of the buildings on the complex to
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Chemical Weapons Treaty and Nonproliferation_
At the summit, President Reagan and Gorbachev reaffirmed their commitment
to the general and complete prohibition of chemical weapons and agreed to
accelerate efforts to conclude an effective and verifiable international
convention on this matter. The two sides agreed to intensify bilateral
discussions on the level of experts on all aspects of a chemical weapons ban,
including the question of verification, and to initiate a dialogue on
preventing the proliferation of chemical weapons. Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State for Politico-Military Affairs John Hawes and Soviet Ambassador Viktor
Israelyan held inconclusive talks on 5-6 March in Bern. 25X1
Risk Reduction Centers
Soviet and US delegations met on 5-6 May in Geneva to exchange ideas
regarding risk reduction centers. The US proposed various roles for such
centers while the Soviets preferred only to listen "in order to study them
carefully." The Soviet delegation attempted to link this subject to arms
control and gained US assent to have the word "nuclear" precede "risk
reduction centers" (NRRCs) in the future. In reply to the US invitation to
meet again, possibly in late July, delegation chief Aleksey Obukhov indicated
that a decision would be made at higher levels and be communicated via
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Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
US Ambassador-at-large Richard T. Kennedy, MFA International Department
Chief Vladimir Petrovskiy, and Chairman of the Soviet State Committee for
Utilization of Atomic Energy Andronik M. Petrosyants are scheduled to meet
from 2 to 5 June in Moscow for a semiannual meeting. The last meeting was
Regional Experts Talks
In 1985, the US and the USSR held a series of discussions on regional
issues following President Reagan's call for joint efforts to ease tensions on
global "hot spots." At their Geneva meeting, President Reagan and Gorbachev
reaffirmed the usefulness of these meetings and agreed to continue such
exchanges they are not intended to involve negotiations) on a regular
basis.
Southern Africa. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
Chester Crocker met on 6 March in Geneva with Vladilen Vasev, Chief of the
MFA's Third African Department, to discuss the negotiations for Namibian
independence. The Soviets professed interest in "activizing" an effort to
find common ground on regional problems, but they had no concrete ideas on how
to achieve it. Vasev asserted that the Soviet Union would not abandon its
friends and charged the US with "upping the ante."
Central America. On 19-20 May Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-
American Abrams led a delegation to Moscow for talks on
Central America and the Caribbean. The Soviets unexpectedly scheduled a
meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Komplektov, who seemed to be sending the
message that Moscow is prepared to renew discussion of high-level US-Soviet
contacts despite the frictions stemming from US military strikes against
Libya. Chief of the Central American and Caribbean Department Kazimirov was
unyielding on substantive Central America and Caribbean icy, but pressed
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or a commitment to hold an additional round of talks.
Asia. Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail S. Kapitsa is expected to lead a
Soviet delegation to Washington this June. He will reportedly be accompanied
by Cambodia expert Anatoliy Zaytsev, Division Chief of the MFA's Southeast
Asia Department, and by Korea expert and Sinologist Igor Rogachev, Chief of
the MFA's Far Eastern Department. Assistant Secretary of State for Asian and
Pacific Affairs Gaston J. Sigur is to lead the US delegation.
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