Soviet Union, June 1972-August 1974The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity of the United States Government.
This volume is part of a subseries of the Foreign Relations of the United States that documents the most significant foreign policy issues and major decisions of the administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. Five volumes in this subseries, volumes XII through XVI, cover U.S. relations with the Soviet Union. This specific volume documents United States policy toward Soviet Union from June 1972 until August 1974, following closely the development of the administration's policy of Détente and culminating with President Nixon's resignation in August 1974.
This volume continues the practice of covering U.S.-Soviet relations in a global context, highlighting conflict and collaboration between the two superpowers in the era of Détente. Chronologically, it follows volume XIV, Soviet Union, October 1971- May 1972, which documents the May 1972 Moscow Summit between President Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. This volume includes numerous direct personal communications between Nixon and Brezhnev covering a host of issues, including clarifying the practical application of the SALT I and ABM agreements signed in Moscow. Other major themes covered include the war in Indochina, arms control, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSE), commercial relations and most-favored-nation status, grain sales, the emigration of Soviet Jews, Jackson-Vanik legislation, and the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war. |
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... asked the NSC for enhanced policy guidance and a ruling on the proper " scope and magnitude " of CIA operations . The White House responded with two initiatives . In April 1951 President Truman created the Psycho- logical Strategy Board ...
... asked Dobrynin about the plan to send Podgorny to Hanoi . Do- brynin replied that Podgorny was still planning to go . They had sent a summary of the conversations with me to Hanoi but indicated that Podgorny stood ready to give a fuller ...
... asked me to see him urgently and inform him that during the February visit to Peking3 it had been agreed that you would make a subsequent visit to that capitol and that in recent days Peking had expressed a great sense of urgency that ...
... asked how the Chinese addressed me . I said one thing that impressed me about them was that they always called me " Excellency . " That fitted in well with my vanity . Do- brynin said , well , if he had known that he would have briefed ...
... asked me about the Chinese trip - what had been most significant . I followed the strategy of telling him things ... asked whether the Chinese were raising European matters . I said only that I had the general impression that they ...