https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/0067295b3d2c7d27344d7aafaf5eb5c3.pdf 50c5c9c238df1dff94a6b0d1bc7f379f PDF Text Text Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document en vertu de la rrteni divulgue atvuigue en venu ae is Loi LO sur faeces a I'information & FM WASHDC MAY22/66 CONFD TO EXTERNAL 1 2 7 9 PRIORITY INFO LDN EMBPARIS NATOPARIS BONN ROME HAGUE BRU PERMISNY TT NCOW DE LDN TT CANFORCEHED DE OTT ^Xlr%~l-'7> \ BAG BGRAD PRGUE WSAW BRLIN SAIGN HXONG DELHI DE LDN HVANA DE OTT REF OURTEL 112$ APRl? SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY 7 IN OUR REFTEL VE REPORTED STATE DEPT INTEREST IN BREZHNEVS UNAMPLIFIED SUGGESTION* IN HIS OPENING SPEECH TO 23RD PARTY CONGRESS,THAT CONFERENCE ON EUROPEAN SECURITY SHOULD BE CONVENED. AFTER READING REPORTS OF GRONYKOS REMARKS IN ROME,TO EFFECT THAT WHAT RUSSIANS HAD IN MIND WAS CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN POWERS ONLY,WE CALLED ON TOUMANOFF IN OFFICE OF SOVIET AFFAIRS,STATE DEPT,TO SEE HOW SOVIET IDEA VAS BEING RECEIVED. 2.TOUMANOFF SAID HE DOUBTED IF RUSSIANS HAD ANY SERIOUS HOPE OF OR VISH TO BRING ABOUT CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN POVERS.WHO FROM WESTERN EUROPE VOULD ATTEND EXCEPT FRENCH70BVI0USLY BRIT WOULD NOT RPT NOT,IF USA WERE NOT RPT NOT TO BE PRESENT,AND IF BRIT DID NOT RPT NOT NEITHER WOULD BELGIANS,DUTCH, ITALIANS OR SCANDINAVIANS.RUSSIANS WERE WELL AWARE OF THIS.THEY KNOW MOREOVER THAT NO RPT NO EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT VAS POSSIBLE WITHOUT PARTICIPATION OF USA.TALK OF CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN POWERS WAS THEREFORE GESTURE OF GOODWILL TOWARDS DEGAULLE ON EVE OF HIS V I S I T TO MCOV,AND PERHAPS QUOTE WAY OF KEEPING THINGS STIRRED UP UNQUOTE. .»«< 000047 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information PAGE TWO 1279 BUT AS SERIOUS PROPOSAL IT WAS WITHOUT SUBSTANCE .WITHDRAWAL OF USA ARMED FORCES FROM EUROPE REMAINED LONG-TERN SOVIET OBJECTIVE. BUT,AS RUSSIANS HAD PRIVATELY MADE CLEAR TO USA,THERE VAS NO RPT NO SOVIET DESIRE FOR BREAKUP OF QUOTE MILITARY BLOCS UNQUOTE IN EUROPE BEFORE GERMAN QUESTION HAD BEEN SETTLED TO SATISFACTION OF EASTERN COUNTRIES.SENSE OF URGENCY WHICH HAD CHARACTERIZED DISCUSSIONS OF EUROPEAN SECURITY TEN YEARS AGO HAD NOW GREATLY DIMINISHED ON BOTH SIDES OF IRON CURTAIN. 3.TURNING TO MORE GENERAL QUESTIONS OF SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY, TOUMANOFF EXPRESSED HIS PERSONAL DISAPPOINTMENT IN PERFORMANCE OF NEV SOVIET LEADERSHIP.IT VAS TRUE.AS SEC RUSK HAD SAID,THAT NEV LEADERS BEHAVED PREDICTABLY AND CONSERVATIVELY,WHICH WAS IN SOME WAYS PLEASANT CHANGE FROM KHRUSHCHEVS RELATIVELY CAPRICIOUS CONDUCT OF FOREIGN POLICY.BUT,TOUMANOFF THOUGHT,NOV VAS NO RPT NO TIME FOR CONSERVATISM*DEVELOPED WORLD WOULD WITHIN NEXT DECADE FACE CATASTROPHIC SITUATION AS FOOD AND POPULATION PROBLEM IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES REACHED C R I S I S PROPORTIONS.KHRUSHCHEV HAD GRASPED THIS CENTRAL OBJECTIVE SOVIET-AMERICAN ENTENTE WHICH WOULD,WHEN ECONOMIC C R I S I S IN REST OF WORLD ARRIVED,PROVIDE AN AREA OF STABILITY URGE AND STRONG ENOUGH TO WITHSTAND SHOCK. IT WAS FOR THIS REASON THAT KHRUSHCHEV HAD SOUGHT TO TERMINATE SOVIET EFFORTS TO INFLUENCE EVENTS IN SEASIA|HE HAD FORESEEN DEVELOPMENT THERE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST WHICH WOULD PREVENT H I S PURSUING MAIN GOAL OF REACHING UNDERSTANDING VITH USA.PRESENT SOVIET LEADERS SEEMED TO HAVE DIFFERENT ORDER OF PRIORITIES. . ..3 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information PAGE THREE 1 2 7 9 IT VAS TRUE THAT,AT SOME POLICICAL RISK AND ESPITE VIETNAM VAR,THEY HAD MAINTAINED CERTAIN LEVEL OF RELATIONS VITH USA, EG AT ENDC AND IN EXCHANGES PROGRAMME,BUT THIS VAS BECUSE THEY REALIZED POSSIBLY DRASTIC CONSEQUENCES OF LETTING RELATIONS FALL TO ANY LOVER LEVEL.FOR EXAMPLE,TOUMANOFF SAID,DECISION VAS NOV HANGING IN BALANCE WHETHER USA WOULD LAUNCH ENORMOUSLY EXPENSIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMME TO DEVELOP ANTI-MISSILE MISSILE.PROS AND CONS WERE SO EVENLY BALANCED THAT PRESIDENT AND MACNAMARA MIGHT WELL HAVE BEEN DECISIVELY INFLUENCED BY SUCH RELATIVELY MINOR ISSUES AS SOVIET ATTITUDE TO EXCHANGES OR THEIR WILLINGNESS TO DISCUSS DISARMAMENT.IT VAS OF GREATEST IMPORTANCE TO RUSSIANS THAT THEY NOT RPT NOT BE CALLED UPON TO FACE COSTS OF RESEARCH PROGRAMME OF THIS KIND.IN TOUMANOFFS VIEV,THEREFORE,SOVIET MAINTENANCE OF RELATIONS VITH USA AT PRESENT MINIMAL LEVEL HAD SHORT-TERM, PRACTICAL EXPLANATION,AND DID NOT RPT NOT SUGGEST ANY REAL GRASP BY LEADERS OF ENORMOUS PROBLEMS BOTH COUNTRIES VOULD BE FACING BEFORE LONG IN RELATION TO UNDER-DEVELOPED VORLD. 4.C0NCERNING DEGAULLES V I S I T TO MCOV,TOUMANOFF AGREED THAT PRESIDENT VOULD LIKE TO ACHIEVE SOMETHING SUBSTANTIAL AND DRAMATIC WHICH WOULD GIVE SUPPORT TO HIS CONTENTION THAT MILITARY BLOCS VERE OUT OF DATE AND THAT QUOTE EUROPE FROM ATLANTIC TO URALS UNQUOTE WAS MEANINGFUL CONCEPT.BUT TOUMANOFF WAS UNABLE TO SEE WHAT RUSSIANS COULD OFFER THAT WOULD MEET THESE REQUIREMENTS, GIVEN FACT THAT THEY THEMSELVES DID NOT RPT NOT CONSIDER MILITARY ...4 000049 �^TcTurneruTBclosed under the Access to information A \ Document divulgue en vertu de la loi sur I'acces a I'infom PAGE FOUR 1279 OUT OF DATE IN EUROPE,AND REGARDED URALS AS MIDDLE NOT RPT NOT END .... OF POLITICAL REGION.THERE WOULD BE AGREEMENTS OF VARIOUS KINDS ON BILATERAL QUEST IONS,BUT ALTHOUGH RUSSIANS VERE PLEASED VITH WHAT DEGAULLE HAD DONE TO NATO,THEY WERE NOT RPT NOT BASICALLY IN AGREEMENT WITH HIM AND PROBABLY THOUGHT HIS VALUE AS DISRUPTIVE FORCE IN VEST VAS LARGELY SPENT.THEY VOULD DO THEIR BEST TO SEND HIM HOME VITH WHAT HE WANTED,BUT BEST MIGHT TURN OUT TO BE VERY LITTLE. 000050 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDBM00014 Title A name given to the resource DC to External 1279 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5/22/1966 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG25-A-3-c, file 27-11-7, "DEFENCE - CONVENTIONAL AND NUCLEAR ARMAMENTS - ANTI - BALLISTIC MISSILES (ABM) = DEFENSE - ARMEMENTS DE TYPE CLASSIQUE ET NUCLEAIRE - ENGINS ANTIMISSILES (ABM)," vol. 10357, part 1, Library and Archives Canada, (LAC). 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