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...months ago. It was all but ruled out even before the conference began as the two sides disputed which country should give up what in the complex equation of nuclear parity (TIME, July 1). "Nuclear agreements are not the core of this summit," said Presidential Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. "It's a terribly difficult subject. There is concern about the two sides going too far, too fast. We can't pull the soufflé out of the oven before it's ready...
That night he and Henry Kissinger and General Alexander Haig, his staff chief, strolled through the Kremlin grounds talking softly in the dark with no worry of intrusion from photographers or constituents. The three men walked by the apartment where Lenin had lived when he came to the Kremlin to direct the revolution and formation of a government. They went by the modern auditorium built beneath the ancient church spires with gilded onion domes. Nixon noted how old and new were fitted together behind the Kremlin walls. He paused a moment In the discussion to take another look...
Scared President. Colson said that the President was planning last January to fire CIA Director William Colby and have the agency investigated. But White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger supposedly talked him out of it. (The one fact that Colson later denied was that Nixon had intended to dismiss Colby.) Colson surmised that Haig and White House Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt worked incognito for the CIA and that maybe Kissinger did too. The President was prevented from acting by the disloyal people around him; his phone, Colson believed, was even tapped by the CIA so that...
...week before the President was to leave, the U.S. Government had no unified negotiating stance on the myriad of details involved in SALT II. "If Henry is working on something," says one high-ranking American arms control expert, "only he, Nixon, Helmut Sonnenfeldt (State Department Counselor) and Alexander Haig know about it. It's on the back, back burner. Nobody here is working on it." Adds a State Department official tartly: "It is not possible to negotiate a comprehensive agreement within the U.S. Government, let alone with the Soviet Union...
...Kissinger met at the White House with Schlesinger, Colby, Haig, Moorer and Brigadier General Brent Scowcroft, Kissinger's deputy on the National Security Council staff. Say the Kalbs: "There was in their view a 'high probability' of some kind of'unilateral Soviet move.'" (This version seemed later to have been partly disputed by Schlesinger, who said that the probability of Soviet troops actually being on the move "was considered by some to be low.") At 11:30 p.m. Schlesinger ordered the first stage of the alert...