CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-260-3-7-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: February 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 23, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/02/19: LOC-HAK-260-3-7-2
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FROM:
HENRY A. KISSINGER
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FOLLOWING IS A REPORT ON SENATOR PERCY'S,BREAKFAST FOR THE
SOVIET PARLIAMENTARIANS. PONOMAREV AND ZAMYAT'IN DID
NOT ATTEND.
THE DISCUSSION TURNED AROUND THE FOUR FOLLOWING SUBJECTS::
MAKING "PARLIAMENTARY EXCHANGES" PERMANENT
THE SOVIET DELEGATION'MEMBERS REPEATEDLY EMPHASIZED THEIR
VIEW THAT THESE "PARLIAMENTARY EXCHANGES" SHOULD BECOME A
PERMANENT FEATURE OF US-SOVIET RELATIONS ANO THAT THEY
HOPED THE U.S, CONGRESS WOULD,QUICKLY ACCEPTTHEIR INVITA-,
TION FOR AN EARLY FOLLOW-UP VISIT TO THE SOVIET UNION tTHE
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN QUITE
RELUCTANT TO VIEW THIS AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN A ONE-SHOT
AFFAIR WHICH RECIPROCATED SOVIET ACCOMMODATION OF VISITING
CONGRESSMEN AND THE VISIT OF THE U.S. CONGRESSIONAL IRU",...
DELEGATION E'N ROUTE TO NEW DELHI IN 198). SENATOR PERCY
ENDORSED THE UTILITY OF "'. PARLIAMENTARY EXCHANGES" BUT DID
NOT SPEAK TO`THE US ACCEPTANCE ^F THE SOVIET INVITATION.-
2, 8I-PARTISAN SUPPORT OF CURRENT U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE
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