CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM GERARD SMITH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-486-11-20-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: November 22, 1971
• Content Type: CABLE

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22 November 71
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FM: AMBASSADOR GERARD SMITH, SALT DELEGATION SALT VIENNA 964
TO: DR. HENRY A. KISSINGER, THE WHITE HOUSE
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DEAR HENRY:
IN SESSION WITH SEMENOV NOVEMBER 21ST HE GAVE ME A
RATHER GRIM REACTION TO OUR INSISTANCE ON CONCENTRATION ON OFFENSIVE
MEASURES. HE PLANS THIS WEEK TO OUTLINE SOVIET OFFENSIVE VIEWS ?ND
I THINK WILL LATER TABLE SOME SORT OF A TEXT. HE STRESSES THAT THIS
IS NOT BECAUSE OF ARGUMENTS THAT I HAVE BEEN MAKING, BUT BECAUSE
MOSCOW WANTS TO MEET US HALFWAY. HE EARLIER HAD SPOKEN OF A
"CONCESSION" BY T HE USSR I N GETTING O N NOW WITH THE OFFENSIVE MEASURES
QUESTION BEFORE ABM HAD GOTTEN FURTHER. I ASSUME THAT IN VIEW OF
OUR NUDGES AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ON OUR INSISTING ON OFFENSIVE
MEASURES DISCUSSION, HE IS TRYING TO AVOID IMPRESSION THAT SOVIETS
ARE BEING PRESSURED INTO OFFENSIVE MEASURES DISCUSSIONS.
HE MAY ALSO BE CONCERNED THAT eWE WILL INSIST ON DISCUSSING
OFFENSIVES ONLY DURING BALANCE OF YEAR. ON THIS SCORE, HE IS RESISTING
FIRMLY MY SUGGESTION THAT WE Ti,AKE A CHRISTMAS BREl K FROM DECEMBER 17TH
TO JANUARY 7TH TO PERMIT OUR PEOPLE TO HAVE SOME TIME WITH THEIR
FAMILIES. (A NUMBER OF SALT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ABSENT FROM HOME
ONE YEAR OUT OF THE LAST TWO.) SEMENOV WANTS TO KNOCK OFF FOR THREE
DAYS AT CHRISTMAS AND THREE DAYS AT NEW YEARS. HE DOES NOT THINK
WE CAN COVER ALL THE 1ABM/OFFENSIVE GROUND BEFORE DECEMBER 17TH.
,HE SEEMED SENSITIVE TO MY CLAIM THAT IF WE WOULD WORK AT ,li LESS
LEISURELY PACE WE COULD CLEARLY COVER THE GROUND. HE HAS IN MIND
A RECESS SOME TIME AT OR AFTER THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY -- AND A RETURN
HERE AFTER ABOUT A MONTH TO BUTTON THINGS UP PRE-SUMMIT. I PLAN TO
SEE HOW THINGS DEVELOP IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, AND THEN BE IN TOUCH
WITH 11,1 SHINGTON AS TO WHETHER IT WOULD MAKE SENSE FOR FARLEY TO
TAME OVER HERE FOR A `WILE OR FOR ME TO STAY ON HERE.
SEMENOV WOUND UP BY SAYING: "IF WE ARE GOING TO ADD
PROCEDURAL ISSUES TO OUR SUBSTANTIVE DIFFERENCES, WE COULD FIND
OURSELVES IN A "PALAIS ROSE' SITUATION.
?ARM? REGARDS.
GERRY SMITH
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/12/20: LOC-HAK-486-11-20-8