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...mention of the defection out of the official press and radio. In Washington, the State Department was just as embarrassed, fearing that the incident would jeopardize its chances for better relations with Russia and interfere with delicate discussions on Viet Nam and the pending treaties on nuclear proliferation and consular exchange...
...Johnson Administration has finally brought the consular treaty it signed with the Soviet Union in 1964 to the Senate for ratification. The treaty, unfortunately has been heavily criticized by a bloc of Senators more concerned with a chimerical Red peril than resumption of the thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations...
...return, the United States has agreed to grant all Russian consular officials immunity from criminal prosecution, an outlet that offending Russian officials have always had for all practical purposes. Arrests of Russian non-diplomatic personnel in the U.S. usually lead to retaliatory seizures of Americans in the Soviet Union and often to an exchange. The U.S. can still expel Soviet diplomats suspected of espionage, a penalty more swift than criminal prosecution...
...conceded to Mundt, its work under the treaty would be "more difficult." Rusk, for his part, never denied that the Russians might use consulates for spying-in the past decade, 28 Russian officials have either been expelled or arrested for espionage-but noted simply that ten to 15 Soviet consular of- ficials, added to the 452 who already enjoy diplomatic immunity in the Washington embassy and the U.N. mission, would not "add significantly to the risk." Spying, of course, has never been claimed as a Russian monopoly, and Morse asked if the CIA might not enjoy snooping from the proposed...
...Name in Moscow. The consular treaty is the keystone of President Johnson's policy of "building bridges" to the East. Ratification would not only reduce the likelihood of international incidents over infractions by unlucky or unwise tourists (which have increased as larger numbers of American travelers -18,000 last year-visit the Soviet Union); it would also serve as an important spur to other East-West agreements. Though the Russians have said repeatedly that no major breakthrough can come while the U.S. is fighting in North Viet Nam, lesser agreements, notably the treaty banning weapons of mass destruction from...