-- ----NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL November 2 1967 SECRi T The attached report indicates Millionshchikov has agreed to meet with American academicians on the ABM issue from December 28 -30 Apparently the academicians involved are Kissinger Ruina Long Kistiakovsky Wiesner Rathje ns and Doty This is at least a sign of interest However it could be a fishing expedition designed to take place before official talks The last sheet with three numbered paragraphs is a very preliminary and informal CIA comment DEG ASSIFIED E O 12356 Sec t 4 Attachment a s l v Wy 6 C 2 8'2- SO NARA Dare J - 'f--'7p SECRET COPY LP J LIBRARY _ _ 1m1BJ -· _ COUNTRY USSR J SUBJECT Soviets Invite US Scientists to Arms Control Meeting co fJY 1- t v REPORT NO 3 '-I DATE DISTR NO PAGES l REFERENCESC J C DATE OF u FO Oct 67 PLACE DATE ACQ -- Oct 67 3 t1 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION 'I- J SOURCEC 1 Through recent correspondence October 1967 with M D Millionshchiko Vice President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences a small group of US scientists have been invited to attend a meeting in Moscow to discuss arms control and disarmament topics in general and the ABM race in particular The meeting has been set for 28-30 December 1967 2 Millionshchikov in late 1966 expressed the opinion that he thought he could invite a group to meet in Moscow to discuss arms control in the missile area However he failed to get a clearance in the face of the general prohibition on such meetings He attributed·_his failure to the mounting scale of fighting in Vietnam 1n June of -1967 Millionshchikc said he felt the urgency of having the talks but that the way was not clear at that time He said that he would try to arrange for the meeting in September 1967 after the Pugwash meeti gs held at that time in Sweden However the approval for the nie eting did not arrive in time for the US delegation to make the trip In informing the US delegation that the September 1967 meetings could take· place Academician V P Pavlichenko said that the approval had come from the top Millionshchikov has now October 1967 confirmed the dates for the meeting previously proposed as ZS-30 December 1967 3 The sessions will receive no publicity in the USSR Millionshchikov has expressed concern that should the nature of the meeting be disclosed to the Chinese CommWlits they would certainly use it for propaganda against the USSR which could negate any good that possibly might come from the meeting SANlTIZED ·· · ·· • J E O 12356 Sec 3 4 NLJ · 89- f Uy • NARA Date 7-IP- COPY U1J LIBRARY _ J 4 Although all the Soviets who will attend the meeting are members of the Academy Millionshchikov has indicated that the funding for the meeting will not come from the Soviet Academy but will be taken care of through Pugwash funds This apparently is a move to disassociate the Academy from the meeting and any adverse propaganda that might be generated by the Chinese from a US- USSR bilateral meeting s The composition of the Soviet group has not been officially released but if attendance at previous meetings is any criterion the Soviets will be represented by Y S Emel'yanov V P Pavlichenko and of course M D Millionshchikov among others -end- J COPY l RJ LIBRARY ·-·- - -- - _ -- --• - -· - Ii ' • • - • • t l · ··-·J ' '· • I • ' · A · • ·r2 1t L J J A£ JJ • • • · _ t1 t J 1 • '• · · 1 c I fit • '✓ '-· - •• J I 011 I anas co11t - 1 and 1n torestallias an All1 l'ACO 1n arti ular oa rI i aei tist• •••• o• balaoce · beea in favor o US-soviet •lb I 1 ' Tbrouuhout 1967 lt baa been apparoot that SoYlet 1 rs v·I 7 ·D I I ••eral occ iou S011u ecientiata baTe eaphasized tba thair W 1 est butJbeai - was tlio oppoait1on f I to sucll talb In• ¼he S iet military establlabment •diicJt always ••eted -to ltave an us ta tra to Kor ygin's ear a e do not • _ en tbe Sov1 tt ooionttata • ccceded in Wi Aninf anale•ioa·to in•ito their US ecnant• rta to J IP$cot1 bu aasume tb f B ciuno SOl etlce in S•J r ••• dsnlbere noted thELt tho 8oYtet re- • o•e- to lecntar7 JJcJJa•ra•a 18 le_ teabe i- opeffb on the 1B d•cJaion to deplo7 L tbin ABM e7atm thou h l i ra1ted and ••tlo 49 has J1ea aed to b• shaded on tto side ot negotiaUocs Sucb a lie re pouae vould bo ln koeplns wi•h clt ate perat tl•f the tala to take place between the t ro na•1ona• • eo trol exports 3 •• approciate Jt1111onsbcbiko 's concern tlmt pvblloitJ altout the tall 9 would poride tbo Chinese Q nu- ni$b w1tb ammuoltioo agaicst tbo OSSR benefit tmrdlino elments io I I I the tala• pur o ae D scow It micht alz o attemptlrls to fru strate • t ' I I t I r· - i I I I COPY· U3J 1LI B'RARY