SOVIET OFFER MAY END DEADLOCK ON EMBASSIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01039R002204380024-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2013
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: September 24, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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STAT
Soviet Offer May End
Deadlock on Embassies
State Department officials
id yesterday the Soviet Union
has offered what appears to be
a satisfactory site for a new
American embassy building in
Moscow.
The Societ offer could lead to
a breakthrough in the long-
standing U.S.-Russian deadlock
over new embassies in their
? respective capitals.
Each country has found its
existing embassy space too
small for the increasing amount
of diplomatic and other opera-
tions carried out, but neither has
been willing to grant more space
? to the other without reciprocity. ;
9.6-Acre Tract
-?? The Soviet offer in Moscow ,
was described as a 9.6-acre tract ;
sloping toward Moskva River. It
, _v is just behind the present U.S. ;
Embassy, a former apartment ;
?3.- building, the Associated Press
cl reported.
It was not immediately known
what site, if any, had been '
agreed upon for a new Soviet ,
embassy in Washington.
; The Russians, who now have a
j modest-size embassy in an aging
I building at 1125 16th St. NW.
. here, have been interested in
some larger sites farther from
the city center.
; One is the former Mt. Alto
' Veterans Administration Hospi-
tal on a rise north of central
Georgetown in the 2600 b ck of
. Wisconsin Avenue NW.
Davies Estate
; Another is Tregaron, the 20.5-
acre Cleveland Park estate of
the late Ambassador Joseph E.
Davies.
Tregaron is at 3029 Klingle
Road NW., and is bounded on
three sides by parkland and the
Nationalist Chinese Embassy.
On April 14, 1967, Juli Voronts-
ov, counselor of the Soviet
Embassy, confirmed that the
Russians had expressed a
preference for Tregaron over
the Mt. Alto site.
The heirs to the Davies estate
reportedly have offered the
Tregaron site for sale for $3.5
million.
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