DAILY SUMMARY OF PUBLIC POSITIONS ON INF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00287R000500450001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 21, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

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Memorandum for:
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Unclassified Summary of Public Positions
on INF
Daily Summary of Positions on INF --
Classified Developments
Talking Points for DCI - Impact of
Vice President Bush's Trip on European
Public Opinion
Briefing Materials for the DCI on the
Bush Trip
Special Assessment of the Impact of
Vice President Bush's Trip on European
Public Opinion
Distribution:
Orig - Vice President Bush
4 - IMC/CB
1 - D/EURA
2 - EURA Production
1 - EURA/EI
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Allied governments publicly are continuing to stress their adherence to the
dual decision and the zero option, but are increasingly indicating their willingness
eventually to explore other alternatives. Moscow, meanwhile, has once again implied
it opposes even partial NATO INF deployment.
UK During "Question Time" in Commons Tuesday, Thatcher emphasized
that although the zero option was the-most desirable outcome of
negotiations, the US should seek to "balance numbers" at Geneva
if the option was unobtainable.
Germ Kohl earlier this week called the zero option the "optimum
solution." in interviews after the Grcmyko visit to Bonn, Kohl
strongly refuted Gromyko's allegations that the US was not
negotiating seriously in Geneva. He maintained that if his
government abandoned the zero option, the US position would be
weakened. He said also that efforts to drive a wedge between
the US and West Germany would not succeed. Conversely, Geenscher
and Foreign Minister State. Secretary Moellemann again raised the
possibility of an "interim solution." Genscher emphasized that
the Western position was not one of "all or nothing" and
Moellenann underscored that the FDP would stick with the
position. Both Kohl and Genscher called for a US-Soviet summit.
France According to press reports, President Mitterrand yesterday
defended the NAM dual track approach in his speech-to the
Bundestag. Mitterrand warned that any decoupling of Western
Europe from the US would be dangerous for peace and security.
He also reaffirmed that French nuclear forces "cannot be taken
into account at the Geneva negotiations" and said that France
would reject any agreement counting French forces as part of the
European balance. In another press report Wednesday, Defense
Minister Hernu said that an eventual solution at Geneva would
fall somewhere between the zero option and current Soviet
proposals.
Italy Last week, Foreign Minister Colombo told the Italian news
service Ansa that Italy would "consider without prejudice any
serious proposal for disarmament from the East" even if it
seemed " insufficient." In subsequent press comments, he
asserted that intermediary positions based on "balance and
parity" were acceptable. Yesterday, after discussions in Bonn
with Genscher, both again indicated that an interim solution was
a possibility.
USSR Tass yesterday replayed a press article by a Soviet Central
Committee staffer which rejects partial deployment as a possible
compromise negotiating outcome. As yet, there have been no
official Soviet public statements on yesterday's Washington Post
report that Moscow will halt START if there is any NATO INF
deployment.
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