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...another U.S. holdup of Iran." Two weeks ago, TASS reported that the U.S. was getting ready to invade Iran from bases in Egypt, Pakistan or Oman. The fabricated report was thought to be an attempt to scuttle the negotiations. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie summoned Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and demanded a halt to the "scurrilous propaganda." Dobrynin appeared embarrassed, but TASS responded by warning of a "new anti-Soviet campaign...
...with Iran. Powell and State Department Spokesman Trattner berated the Kremlin over a charge in the official Soviet newspaper Pravda that the U.S. was getting ready to use military force in Iran. On instructions from President Carter, Muskie took the unusual step of summoning Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin for a scolding, terming the newspaper account "scurrilous propaganda" and warning that it could have "lasting effects on U.S.Soviet relations." Speaking for Carter, Powell called the Soviet meddling "a despicable manner of behavior...
...Doubletalk also refers to the role in SALT I of Henry Kissinger, who conducted his own, not always parallel, negotiations with Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin in Washington. The first volume of Kissinger's own memoirs, White House Years, published in 1979, exuded contempt for the SALT bureaucracy headed by Smith; Doubletalk retaliates with an agenda of rebuttals and countercharges. Smith, for example, accuses Kissinger of attempting "a one-man stand, a presidential aide against the resources of the Soviet leadership...
Somebody told Dobrynin that a letter the Ambassador had written Reagan had been read that morning at a Reagan transition staff meeting and that if Dobrynin did not watch out he would be recruited for a job in the new Administration. Dobrynin laughed heartily at that, and even at a sally that Reagan had just finished his first press conference and not declared war on the Soviet Union...
...trouper had no doubts, Nixon, with a shot glass of vodka in his hand, posed with Dobrynin for a picture, told the Ambassador that he never drank the stuff and declared that strength and reliability were the true ingredients of peace. Said Nixon: "Rather than this being a period with a danger of war, it will be the opposite." Said Kissinger: "The Soviets want a predictable Administration. And in a curious way, I think they want one that puts limits on them. Their system is not capable of operating under the principle of self-restraint." An interesting theory...