NUCLEAR-TOON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303170001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 10, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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REUTERS
10 July 1983
WASHINGTON
NUCLEAR-TOON
A former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union today uryto ors a e
deadlocked Geneva talks on medium-range nuclear missiles to seek an interim
solution along the lines of the so-called "walk in the woods" formula devised
last summer.
Both Moscow and Washington rejected the plan devised by U.S. negotiator Paul
Nitze and his Soviet counterpart Yuli Kvitsinksi during a walk in the woods near
Geneva last July.
The two men reached a tentative compromise on President Reagan's zero option
proposal that would have instead limited the intermediate nuclear forces of both
superpowers. It has often been cited since as the most promising means of giving
impetus to the stalled INF talks.
"Something like that is what we should look for," Malcolm Toon said in an
interview on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley."
Toon, who served as ambassador in Moscow in the Carter administration, urged
more Soviet and U.S. flexibility in the Geneva talks and said the United States
ought to be prepared to cut back its nuclear arsenal if necessary.
"We ought to have another walk in the woods," he said.
Congressman Thomas Downey, interviewed on the same program today after
leaving Moscow, quoted Soviet marshal Sergei Akhromeev, first deputy chief of
the Soviet general staff, as saying if such a proposal were offered it would be
considered at the Geneva negotiations.
But the New York Democrat said he did not perceive this as any sort of
special signal.
"There is still a pretty far distance between our positions," he added.
Toon also urged Washington and Moscow to resume "dialogue on an official
level" which, he said, had been absent during the Reagan administration.
Such a dialogue was important because the real threat to peace was
non-communication, misperception and misinterpretation by either side, he added.
Later, West German Green Party leader Petra Kelly said an interim agreement
on medium-range nuclear missiles was highly unlikely and that she opposed such a
position.
Kelly added she did not trust Reagan or Soviet leader Yuri Andropov and said
her party favored unilateral disarmament because bilateral disarmament had never
been successful.
Kelly, a Green party parliamentarian, harshly criticized Reagan, saying he
was importing a second Cuban missile crisis into Europe, and said she believed
the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA) and its Soviet counterpart, the
KGB, were infiltrating the anti-nuclear movement.
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"The CIA and the KGB are using agent provocateurs ... both secret services
play a large role in putting people in the movement to espouse violence," she
said in a separate television interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Kelly stressed the 25,000-member Green Party opposed violence but believed in
discussions with the violent element in the anti-nuclear movement.
Asked if she had proof of CIA involvement, Kelly replied: "I don't have any
evidence to give you."
Kelly, one of several Green Party leaders here for talks with U.S. officials,
said she had been shocked at the double standards in the State Department on
human rights.
She said "the sins the U.S. is committing in its own back yard" were as great
as those of the Soviet Union.
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