SALT II

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-485-2-16-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 7, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/19: LOC-HAK-485-2-16-4
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THE IDEA THAT A PEFuELING CAPABILITY FOR THE BACKFIRE WAS EIT'HFR
CONTEMP4ATEG OR REALISTIC. HE SAW NO REPEAT acct CHANCE 4HATSOE1E.R
OF THE SOVIETS ACCEPTING THE U5 COMPRUMISE PROPOSAL FOR. THE'
BACKFIRE, HE ADDE1 THAT# IF WF PERSISTED IN PRESSING ABOUT THE=
BACKFIRE, THE $OVZET8 COULD RAISE "SIMILAR PR01 LEM$'? ABOUT 03
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SINCE THEY PIO NOT WI3H TO RAISE PROALEMS WHICH `ERE
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SUBJECT, AND HE TMPL?IED THERE: MIGHT 5E SOME GIVF_ IN THC 'SOVIET
P03ITIC+H IN THIS REGARD. HE REPEATED, HOWEYt"K? THAT HE' SAW NO
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STATUS OF MY PNE TALKS WITH MOROKHOV, HE FELT THIS WAg
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