CONSTRUCTION OF ANTIBALLISTIC MISSILE SYSTEM

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September 19, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -- SE
the Foreign Office to see Mr. Peter Hayman,
Assistant Under-Secretary of State.
EMBASSY VISLT
Mr. Hayman conveyed to Mr. Vasev "the
British Government's strong protest against
the lawless and outrageous conduct of cer-
tain members of the staff of the Soviet Em-
bassy in kidnapping Dr. Kachenko on the
Bayswater Raad and in obstructing the Brit-
ish autharitiea at London Airport when they
were engaged in their legitimate duty".
-The consequences of this behaviour by
Soviet officials were being considered.
Last night Dr. Kachenko's wife went to
the Russian Embassy.
At 11:30 on Saturday mgrning Dr. Ka-
chenko was seen by several members of the
public. apparently being forced against his
will into a car owned by the Russian Em-
bassy. He called for help.
At the airport he said he wished to speak
privately to the British authorities, and when
they escorted him from the aircraft Soviet
officials tried to stop him physically.
He told the British authorities that he did
not wish to go to Moscow. He said he had
been given an injection against his will at
the Soviet Embassy. A medical examination
by a British doctor later supported this.
Mr. Vasev's meeting at the Foreign Office
lasted more than an hour. Aftervvarda he
said: "I have received the British version of
the incident. But I protested and asked tor'
an immediate explanation: '
POLICE CRITICIZED
Police action in boarding the aircraft,
forcefullq removing Dr. Kachenko, and isolat-
ing him from his wile and from the people
who could help him and speak the same
language was "a travesty of anything which.
any country should offer in the way of.
hospitality".
As translated by a Tasa News Agency car-
respandent, a Russian Embassy statement
last night said that Dr, Kachenko travelled
from Cambr~dge with his wife during Friday
night and went straight to the Embassy at
6 a.m. Told to come back later, he returned
with her at 9 a.m. The statement said:-
He spoke to Embassy officials saying that he
.was very tired and was thinking of cutting
short his time at Cambridge. His wife hacl
Dome to save him at Cambridge on her annual
leave, and he thought about going back to
Moscow with her before her leave expired.
He said his programme at Birmingham
ULliveraity was finished and he saw no special
reasons to continue staying here. He was told
the Embassy would get in touch with the
Academy of Sciences in Moscow and would
let him know their decision.
But during the conversation at the Em-
bassy he behaved rather strangely. Far ex-
ample, he suddenly asked someone to confirm
that the woman was his wife. Everyone was
astonished, and started asking his wife what
it was all about. She said that lately her
husband had been in some strange nervous
condition. She did not know the reasons for
this condition.
The only, thing she knew was that he was
taking some medicine far his nerves.
WLFE IN CHASE
Eventually, he agreed to come inside the
Embassy, where he was seen by the Embassy
doctor and some people who knew him per-
sonally. Asked how he was feeling, he said
that he was feeling very badly, but then he
said he was feeling perfectly well.
It was decided he and his wife should leave
London on an aircraft which was leaving that
day-in about an hour. He agreed, but then
said he had some difficulties about leaving
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Mr. Hayman also protested against the
obstructive tactics of the Russians at Heath-
row airport after Dr. Tkachenko had been
escorted aboard the plane.
WARNING TO VASEV-"CONSEQUENCES"
CONSIDERED
Mr. Vasev, who had. been summoned to
the Foreign Office for the hour-long meeting',
was told "that the consequences of this be-
havfaur by Russian officials are being con-
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ort when the pilot received an order from shouted for the poi He was traced to
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nical reasons. -v W - - ~^ aboard a Moscow-bound?~lane.
and one person, in civilian dress, who knew
Kac enko; pointed him out. A policy, officer
then. demanded that Kachenko leave the
plana~ in order to speak with representatives
the pilaf
Then
turned it
r. Kachenko was pulled off the air-
t ask for it. She refused and re-
m the airport to the Embassy.
ally Telegraph, Sept. 18, 1987]
SOVIET OFFIS~IALa FACE EXPULSION-BRITAIN
CONDEMNS!!? IDNAP PLOT-DECISION TODAY
ON RUSSIAiS'CIENTIST
SBy Waite Farr and David Loshak)
Britain is c nsidering expelling Russian
Embassy officio who tried to kidnap a
young Russian ~hysiciat on Saturday. This
waa made clear 1st night alter the Fbrefgn
Office sharply pro~ested to the Soviet Charga?
d'Affaires, Mr. Vlaglilleu Vasev, against the
The Soviet Em ' say countered with a
statement attackingBritain for taking the
physicist, Dr. Vladi ~ it Tkachenko, from' a
-1Moscow-bound airliner. The Embassy put
'the blame for "the a~onsequences of these
anti-humanitarian actions" on the British
authorities.
Mr. Vasev flew last nigght to Prestwick Air-
port where today ha vd~ll see his Foreign
Minister, Mr. Gromyko, ~vho is en route to
England where he is and
vision.
said last night:
henko has been
All through the day Tka
recovering from the drugs
Soviet Embassy officials. He
fined by doctors and by an
atrist.
Their reports are being ur,
:after telling the man at the door that it vdks_ should be done.
not the Soviet Embassy at all. '~?...,,~ aoINT nECxsroN
after him and caught up with him near
Lancaster Gate. They offered to take him
back to the Embassy and got into a car. He
hesitated, and then agreed to get into the car,
The statement added:-
When they got back he kept saying it was
not the Soviet Embassy and wanted some-
one to confirm that it was. The Chargd d'
Affaires, Mr. Vasev came out.... Kachenko
asked him to confirm that he was the Chargd
d'Affaires and asked him to produce some
document.
"the Home Secretary in consultation with
the Foreign Secretary."
Earlier at the Foreign Office, Mr. Peter
Hayman, Assistant Under-Secretary, pro-
tested strongly at the "lawless and outra-
geous" conduct of Soviet Embassy Staff in-
volved in the kidnapping attempt.
Mr. Vasev was told that Britain could not
allow the stair of a foreign Embassy to take
the law into their own hands. Dr. Tkachenko,
it was pointed out, was entitled to the full
protection of the police.
which was not allowed tof leave until Dr.
Tkachenko had been taken"off. Atug-af-war
between British and Russian officials devel-
oped on the steps to the plane.
Dr. Tkachenko confirmed to the British
authorities that he did not wish to go to
Moscow in the plane. He said that "after
being kidnapped in the Bayswater Road he
had been taken to the Soviet Embassy and
was there given an injection against his will.
"His general manner confirmed that he
was under the influence of some drug. Sub- ,
sequent medical examination by a British
doctor showed that an injection had indeed
been given and the physical evidence "in-
dicated the use of a drug."
It was emphasized in Whitehall that al-
though expulsions are being considered it is
not intended that the incident should be
allowed to cast a shadow over Angles-Soviet
relations as a whole.
Mr. Brown, the. Foreign Secretary, is ex-
pected to meet Mr. Gromyko, the Soviet For-
eign Minister, at the United Nations this
week.
As a result ai information about the kid-
napping in the Bayswater Raad, the Chief
Immigration gfficer at Heathrow, accom-
panied by police officers, boarded the Soviet
Aeroflot glans on which Dr. Tkachenko was
about to leave far Moscow on Saturday.
Dr. Tkachenko said when they entered
the plane that he wished to speak to the
British authorities privately. The Soviet
Consul, who had joined the aircraft at the
same time as the British authorities, at-
tempted to prevent a conversation and said
that the British authorities had no right to
respond to Dr. Tkachenko's request.
The Gonsul said Dr. Tkachenko was not
to be allowed to leave the plane.
When alter prolonged attempts to resolve
the matter by discussion had failed, and
Dr. Tkachenko was being escorted from the
aircraft, Soviet officials tried to obstruct this
physically.
After leaving the plane, in the presence
of the Soviet Consul and Mrs. Tkachenko,
Dr. Tkachenko repeated his request to see the
British authorities alone.
After leaving the Foreign Office, Mr. Vasev
said Dr. Tkachenko was a very _111 man.
"He was not drugged. I must most em-
phatically deny this,
"The kind of illness he had was mental,
which needs isolation and requires him to be
with people most close to him, his wife and
parents. Certainly treatment in these cases
Ls better in Russia than in a foreign country."
WIFE LEFT PLANE-WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN
Mr, Vasev added that Dr, Tkachenko was to
have been taken to Russia by his wife. Mrs.
Tkachenko left the aircraft on Saturday with
her husband but her whereabouts are not
now known. She is regarded as a free agent
by British authorities.
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Dr. Tkachenko would probably have re-
turned to Britain.
"The police action in boarding the plane,
forcefully removing him, isolating him from
his wife and from the people who could help
him and speak the same language, under
his very medical condition, is, of course, a
travesty of anything which any country
should offer in ways oP hospitality."
BIRMINGHAM STUDIES-DUE HOME NEXT MONTH
Dr. Vladimir Tkachenko, who is about 25,
had been at Birmingham University since
January, doing post-graduate work irI low-
tempertaure physics, using helium gas. He
was not due to return to Russia until next
month.
He came to Brita_ in under a science at.udent
exchange scheme; administered by Royal So-
ciety, which was set up by the current Anglo-
Russian cultural agreement. He was one of
Pour scientific research workers exchanged
in the last academic year.
He was regarded as a highly able student
but was not engaged on any secret work.
Prof. P. B. Moon, head of Birmingham Uni-
versity's Department of Physics, said yester-
day that he was "a very good physicist indeed,
good enough for the Russians to waxit him
back".
He is understood to have worked in close
and friendly cooperation with British scien-
tists on the highly-specialized problems of
low-temperature physics.
Dr. Tkachenko was due in Caxnbridge in
the next few days to work in the Cavendish
laboratories. He should have been staying
in the Kapitza Hostel, which is leased to
Churchill College by the Soviet Academy of
Sciences.
Last night Lady Cockcroft, wife of the Mas-
ter of Churchill College, Sir John Co' th.e deployment With this clear warning, with the best
of the Soviet ABM system means that military judgment of the opinion that the
we will have to do far more than has Soviet Union is not only closing the of-
been planned to protect the American fensive missile race, but also ahead of us
people against a surprise attack. in deploying the ABM, I believe that the
In this regard I take issue with one of Secretary of Defense -and the Johnson
the basic principles of t11e announced administration are the victims of fal-
U.S. ABM deployment. It is, according lacious reasoning. As early as April 1963,
to Secretary McNamara, a "thin" mis- I warned the Senate that Russia had an
rile defense system- that is "Chinese- operational ABM system, and I urged im-
oriented," and not the more extensive mediate construction of an ABM system
Soviet-oriented system that has been for our defense. The problem has not
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gone away. It cannot be rationalized out 2. In mid-November and again in early May conference. Nevertheless, Bagga anal
oY existence. December, Mr. Boggs was joined by Mr, Ash- Ashmore said they could send any messages
Whfle I am pleased to see a change of more in calls at the Department. In these for Hanoi through the regular mail to a
heart in the administration's Stand Ori calls, the progress of the conference plane North Vietnamese representative in Phnom
was reviewed, and the two visitors indicated Penh, who in turn would relay it to a North
this Vital issue of missile defense, the that they had a tentative invitation to go to Vietnamese official who .had been the -prin-
proposed system is not enough. I will con- Hanoi, with Mr. Luis Quintanilla of Mexico. cipal contact of Messrs. Boggs and Ashmore
tinue my fight to make the administra- Messrs. Boggs and Ashmore also suggested in Hanoi. Accordingly., the letter now pub-
tion take its hEad out of the sand and -that, if they were able to visit Hanoi, they lashed by Mr. Ashmore was worked out with
give the country the ABM defense that it might be able to conduct useful explorations the representatives of the Department, and
deserves. of North Vietnamese views towards peace. authorized to be sent on February b. We were
Mr. George Ball having then left the Depart- subsequently informed by Mr, Ashmore that
ment, the primary responsibility for these this letter reached Phnom Penh on Febru-
VISIT TO VIETNAM BY HARRY conversations passed to his successor, Drlr. ary 15.
ASHMORE AND WILLIAM BAGGS Katzenbach, who kept the President and the 7. No useful purpose could be served by
Secretary of State informed as a matter of giving further details on what took place in
Mr. LAUSCHE. Mr. President, I think course. tho Moscow channel. We can say, however,
as
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it is most unfortunate that a public dis-
pute has arisen, growing out of the visit
made by Mr. Harry Ashmore and Mr.
Williams Boggs to Hanoi. In my opinion,
the Department of State, true to its
statements, attempted to explore every
means of bringing the South Vietnam
dispute to the negotiating table. It went
out of its way in collaborating with Mr.
Ashmore and Mr. Boggs in the hope that
they would be able to produce advance
toward bringing an end to the South
Vietnam war, It should, however, be re-
membered that while the State Depart-
ment and the present administration at-
tempted to utilize the seryices_ of these
two men, it would have been completely
wrong to abdicate to them the per-
formance of the principal responsibility,
which lay with the President and the _
Secretary of State.
These two men expected, obviously, by
what has recently been said, that the
President should have gone into the
background and allowed them to be the
negotiators of peace, which all our citi-
zens and public officials are praying for.
They arrogated to themselves a power
and an efficiency which are completely
unjustified. They derogated, by the state-
ment which was recently made, the duty
and the responsibility of the President.
If any mistake was made by the ad-
ministration, it was in giving to these two
men a credit completely beyond that to
which they were entitled.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous con-
sent that the statement issued by the
Department of State be printed in the
RECORD.
There being no objection, the state-
ment was ordered to be printed in the
RECORD, aS fOl1pWS:
STATEMENT SY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
SEPTEMBER 13, 1967
We have had a number oP inquiries con-
" cerning news stories published today, based
on an article by Mr. Harry Ashmore in a pub-
lication of the Center for the Study of Demo-
cratic Institutions (CSDI).
The facts concerning the' Department's
contacts with Messrs. Ashmore and Boggs are
as follows:
1. During the summer of 1966, Mr. William
Bagga told the Department that CDSI was
planning a major conference in May of 1967
in Geneva, to follow up' on the first P?cem
In Tera?is meeting held in New York in Feb-
ruary of 1965. Mr. Boggs disclosed to ,us ef-
forts that the Center was making to invite
North Viet-Nam to attend, and the Depart-
ment responded sympathetically to the idea
of the Conference and to these efforts. These
initial contacts were with Mr. George Ball
and Mr. William Bundy. The President and
Secretary Rusk were informed, and Mr. Ball
was directed to handle contacts with Mr.
Boggs on behalf oP the United States Gov-
ernment.
w
anne
In these conversations, Department rep- that an February 7, while that c
resentatives accepted the Boggs/Ashmore still open and in operation, separate dis-
suggestion and undertook to cooperate iul.ly, cussions were initiated in London between
Accordingly, the position of the United Prime Minister Wilson and Premier Kosygin
States Government on key issues relating to of the USSR. The combined reading of the
peace was discussed at some length, so that Moscow channel and of these discussions led
Boggs and Ashmore could represent it ac- to the dispatch on February 8 of President
cu.rately in Hanoi. Johnson's letter to President Ho. This letter
3. On December 23, Boggs visited the I)e- was of course published unilaterally by
pa,rtment just prior to the departure of the Hanoi on March 21, and is a matter of pub-
three-man group on December 28. At that lac record. It rested on, and was of course
meeting, the basic understanding of the read by Hanoi in relation to, the various pro-
United States Government position was re- pawls that had been conveyed in the Moscow
afftrmed, and it was further agreed that Boggs ,channel. There was no change of basic posi-
and Ashmore would report confldentia,lly tion whatever between February 5 and Febru-
what they were able to pick up in Hanoi. ary 8, but President Johnson's letter did in-
4. Messrs. Boggs and Ashmore visited elude a specific action proposal that speaks
Hano4 from January 6 to January 14. They "for itself, as does the tone of his commu-
dictated for the Department a full and con-
fidential account of their conversations. This
covered in particular a conversation with
President Ho an January 12. In this conver-
sation, Ho had insisted that there could be
no talks between the US and Hanoi unless
the bombing were stopped, and unless also
the US stopped all reinforcements during the
period of the talks. Ho was reported to be
adamant against any reciprocal military re-
straint by North Vietnam. The record does
not show that he solicited any USG response
to these remarks.
5. Concurrently, prior to January 18, on
US initiative and without any connection
to the Boggs/Ashmore actions, US Govern-
ment representatives had established a direct
channel far communication with North Viet-
namese representatives in Moscow. With the
apparent agreement of both sides, this chan-
nel was being kept wholly confidential, and
was therefore not revealed to Messrs. Boggs
and Ashmore in their discussions at the De-
partment. It is, of course, fundaments) to
the USG dealing with Messrs. Boggs and Ash-
more that there existed at the time -this
dtrect and secret channel. Exchanges throixgh
t17fs direct channel continued through Jan-
uary and early February and culminated in
President Johnson's letter to President Ho
a:f February 8 (mistakenly stated by Mr. Ash-
more as February 2). As has been stated by
representatives of .the Department, a wide
variety of proposals was put before Hanoi
in these Moscow contacts, without at any
time producing any useful response.
6. Toward the end of January, Messrs.
Boggs and Ashmore returned to Washing-
ton and expressed to the Department the
strong hope that they could be given a mes-
sage for transmission to Hanoi. The Depart-
ment decided that, while the direct channel
in Moscow was crucial and must at all costs
be preserved, it would be useful to send a
more general message through Messrs. Boggs
and Ashmore, which would be consistent
with the important messages being ex-
changed in Moscow. In view of this channel
(oP which Boggs-Ashmore were unaware)
there was some question as to tie further
utility of detailed informal communications.
It seemed clear from the account given by
Messrs. Boggs and Ashmore that their chan-
ne~I of communication had been established
vrith the primary purpose of exchanges con-
cerning North Vietnamese attendance at the
sponded in any useful way to the variety of
suggestions conveyed in the Moscow channel,
its sole and apparently final response was re-
flected on February 13, in a letter by Presi-
dent Ho to Pope Paul VI. This letter, in the
words of one press account today, "coupled
an unconditional end to -the bombing with
the withdrawal of American forces and the
recognition of the National Liberation.
Front:' On February 15, President Ho replied
formally to the President in similar terms.
At the same time, Hanoi broke off the Mos-
cow channel.
9. Hanoi's attitude remained negative
throughout. The Boggs/Ashmore efforts were
necessarily handled by the Department with
an eye to the direct and then-confidential
channel that existed concurrently to Hanoi.
The latter appeared to be by far the more
reliable and secure method of ascertaining
Hanoi's views,
10. Finally, we note with regret t$at Mr.
Ashmore is apparently ignorant of t e sub-
sequently published report .af the Moscow
contacts, and of their confirmation by De-
partment representatives. We note with still
greater regret that at no time since has he
consulted with the Department in order to
attempt to understand the interrelationship
that- necessarily obtained between -the
Moscow channel and his own efforts. As this
case shows, the Administration has been
prepared at all times to cooperate with
private individuals who may be in .contact
with Hanoi in any way, and who arc pre-
pared to act responsibly and ,discreetly.
This policy continues, although it seems
clear that the present disclosure will not
reassure Hanoi that such private contacts
will be kept secret.
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Pres-
ident, Isuggest the absence of a quorum.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Mc-
INTYRE in the chair) . The clerk will call
the roll.
The assistant legislative clerk proceed-
ed to call the roll.
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi-
dent, Iask unanimous consent that the
order for the quorum call be rescinded.
The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob-
jection, it is so ordered.
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -SENATE September~l9,~ 1967
APPOINTMENTS TO 12TH MEETING
OF CONSULTATION OF MINISTERS
OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ORGANI-
ZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair
wishes to announce the appointment of
Senators WAYNE MORSE and BOURKE
HICKENLOOPER?.a5 representatives to the
12th Meeting of Consultation of the Min-
isters of Foreign Affairs of the Member
Nations of the Organization of .American
States to be held in Washington, D.C.,
September 22 through September 24,
1987.
ADJOURNMENT TO 11 A.M.
Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Pres-
ident, if there be no further business to
come before the Senate, I move, in ac-
cordance with the previous order, that
the Senate stand in adjournment until
11 a.m. tomorrow.
The motion was agreed to; and (at 5
o'clock and 35 minutes p.m.) the Senate
adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday,
September 20, 1967, at 11 o'clock a.m.
NOMINATIONS
Executive nominations received by the
Senate September 19 (legislative day of
September 18) , 1967:
INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY
Glenn T. Seaborg, oP California, to be the
Representative of the United States oP Amer-
ica to the 11th sessiGn of the General Con-
ference of the International Atomic: Energy
Ageney.
The following-named persons to be alter-
nate representatives of the United States oP
America to the 11th session of the General
Conference of the International Atomic En-
ergy Agency:
Verne B. Lewfs, of Maryland.
Herman Pollack, of Maryland.
James T. Ramey, oY Illinois.
Henry DeWolf Smyth, oP New Jersey,
Gerald F. Tape, of Maryland.
IN THE NAVY
Having designated, under the provisions of
title 30, United States Code, section 5231,
Rear Adm. Noel A. M. Gaylen, U.S._Navy, for
commands and other duties determined by
the President to be within the contemplation
of said section, I nominate him for appoint-
ment to the grade of vice admiral while so
serving.
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