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...Soviet "analysis," following from the Moscow Nixon meeting, reached me on July 6-in other words, more than a month late. This analysis explained that no progress had been achieved on the Middle East question in the Soviet-American talks-just as I had predicted during my Moscow visit late in April-in view of the fact that it was the U.S. election year. What was even more odd, the Soviet analysis conveyed to me by the Soviet ambassador said nothing at all about the failure to ship the requested weapons...
...Moscow and Washington have tended to regard "peaceful coexistence," and more recently detente, as a continuation of the cold war by other means. Spies have used the proliferation of official contacts between East and West to move back and forth, and counterspies have reacted accordingly. Ever since a Soviet-American student exchange program was established in 1958, the FBI, which is responsible for counterespionage in the U.S., has been on the lookout for agents of the Soviet secret police, or KGB, operating undercover as visiting students and scholars...
...timing of the Lusis case. Soviet-American relations were deteriorating dangerously. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and his advisers were regrouping after their disastrous week in Moscow in March and preparing to meet Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva in May. The U.S.S.R. desk at State argued strenuously that the FBI'S proposed blackmail attempt threatened to jeopardize Soviet-American relations at the worst possible time. The CIA supported State, noting it had nothing in its files to indicate Lusis was a KGB "heavy." But, exercising its license to conduct domestic counterespionage, the FBI decided to go ahead...
...Soviet Union last week informed the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) it will grant a visa to Melvyn Nathanson, honorary research fellow in Mathematics, for the current academic year, reversing an August decision to deny him entry into the USSR on the NAS Soviet-American exchange program, a spokesman for NAS said yesterday...
Privately, however, Administration officials were saying that a "conceptual breakthrough" had been achieved, and that the chances of concluding a SALT II agreement before the end of 1977 had vastly improved. The Soviet-American understanding came virtually on the eve of the formal expiration of a key section of SALT I (TIME, Oct. 3) and breathed life into the faltering spirit of detente...