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In response to your request, the Department
submits . program of specific actions to move forward
on a policy of building bridges to East Europe.
The highlights of this program are:
1. New
mo~es
to broaden bilateral relations
with each country ~
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2
- of this effort has been to open up the
USSR increasingly to the outside world. The process is a continuing one
and can be expected to receive constant new impulse, for example, from
the unresolved problem of destalinization and over the long run from
- to achieve a
completely new status for its trade with the West, which could be
associated with evolutionary changes in the internal planning system.)
Finally, if the CP 1 s should bring in a significant number of Com
munist countries under the GATT, a better
- in
Soviet policy, decisions which have yet
to be made , and possible new developments
not yet susceptible to our detection .
II. In the past two year s the Soviets have expanded
their ICBM force by adding l aunch sites at the
II
existing major
- to test
the Soviets 1 intentions by further conversation. If, however,
the next round of conversation is fruitless, NASA should be
requested to develop some specific action proposal that would
represent a new initiative on our part. At the last meeting
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response to the proposals for cooperation already made by
President Kennedy and by you.
(b) No new high-level US initiative is recommended
until the Soviet Union . has had a fur-ther opportunity (possibly
·t hree months) to discharge its current obligations
- and NAT O , and to talk about our relations with
the Russians and Eastern Europeans.
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Secretary Rusk will summarize the issues and possib le ways o f dealing
with them. Secret ary Clifford will t a l k about the defense of Western Europe
a and the new
- information and information given by
Ambassador Dobrynin.
The Pres i dent instructed Rusk to ask Dobrynin in to discuss this matter,
The S ecreta ry could say:
(a) Astonished at this news.
(b) N ot opportune time to mak e announcement tomorrow.
Tell allies we