• I Departme-nt of Sfate s OD 5 FO THE UNDER a r J r SU3JECT TUMS Cat A • Caption removed translerred to 0 FADRC Cot B • Transferred to O F ADRC wifa oddi ionol access contrc cd by S 5 Cot C • Caption and custody retuincd by S S REF MOSCOW 2355 STATE 092764 1 CHIEF MFA AMERICAN DEPARTMENT CKORNIYENKO ASKED ME TO CALL TOD Y SINCE DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER KUZNETSOV STILL our OF TOWN DLOSSON ACCOMPANIED ME 2 REFERRING TO MY MEETING WITH GROMYKO ON MAY 26 ON TUMS KORNIYENKO READ ORAL STATEMENT TEST BELOW WHICH HE SAID KUZENTSOV HAD WISHED TO GIVE ME STATEMENT DENIES ANY SPECIAL BEAM IS DIRECTED AT EMBASSY TdAT IN ANY CASE RADIATION LEVEL SURROUNDING EMBASSY IS MUCH LOWER THAN SAFETY STANDARDS ACKNOWLEDGED IN WASHINGTON AND AGAIN PROPOSES A JOINT INVESTIGATION INCLUDING INSIDE THE EMBASSY t_ 3 I TOLD KORNIYENKO THAT OUR FINDINGS WERE DIFFERENT I GAVE HIM DIAGRAM SHOWING HOW BEAM IS DIRECTED FROM NEARBY SOVIET APARTMENT T THE OFFICE SECTION OF THE CHANCERY AND EXPLAINED THAT RADIO BEAM COVERS FROM THE THIRD TO THE TENTH FLOOR OF THE CHANCERY I ASSED OVER HIS PROPOSAL FOR A JOINT INVESTIGATION POINTING our WE WERE PRESENTING NEW SPECIFIC EVIDENCE 4 KORNIYENKO AT FIRST TRIED TO DISMISS PATTERN OF BEAM AND THEN RETURNING TO THEME THAT SOVIET SCIENTISTS MAINTAIN THERE IS NO DANGER FOR HUMANS ASKED WHY WE WERE DISTRESSED I REPLIED THAT THE BEAM IS A LOW-ENERGY HIGH FREQUNECY SIGNAL AND WE CANNOT BE CERTAIN ABOUT ITS LONG-TERM EFFECTS I POINTED OUT THAT SIMILAR ENERGY RAYS IN EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS HAD BROUGHT ABOUT PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES I AL SO MENTIONED THAT A FORMER EMABSSY EMPLOYEE WHOSE WIFE HAD RECENTLY DIED OF CNACER WAS BRINGING SUIT ON THE GROUNDS THAT THE SOVIET SIGNAL H'D CAUSED HER ILLNESS I REMINDED HIM THAT WE HAD TREATED THE EXISTENCE OF THE SOVIET RADIO BEAM IN STRICTEST CONFIDENCE BUT THAT WE COULD NOT GUARNTEE THERE WOULD BE NO PUBLICITIY BECAUSE OF NUMBER OF PERSONS RETURNING TO WASHINGTON WHO HAD KNOWLEDGE OF IT KORIYENKO'S 1 REJOINDER WAS SIMPLY THAT SOVIET MEDICAL SPECIALISTS HAO EXCLUDED ANY POSSIBILITY OF DANGER TO HUMANS t 5 I CONCLUDED BY ASKING THAT HIS SPECIALISTS STUDY THE DIAGRAM OF THE SIGNAL THAT I HAD GIVEN HI SE ET -2- MOSCOW 4343 NODIS 6 T XT OF SOVIET OR AL STATEM ENT IS AS FOLLO WS BEGIN QUOTE IN CONNECTION WITH THE RAISING ONCE AGAI N BY YOU IN A CONVERSATION WITH MINISTER A A GROMYKO OF THE QUESTION CONCERNING ALLEGED IRRADIATION 08LYCHENIE OF THE BUILDING OF THE USA EMBASSY IN MOSCOW BY RADIO WAVES A THOROUGH VERIFICATION WAS REPEATEDLY CONDUCTED TH F RESULTS OF WHICH CONFIRMED THAT NO SPECIALLY DI ECTED RADIO IRRADIATION OF THE EMBASSY BUILDING IS CARRI D ON 7 THE PRESENCE OF A DEFINITE LEVEL OF RADIO IRRADIATION IN THE AREA OF THE EMBASSY IS EXPLAI ED BY THE WORK OF RADIO ELECTRONIC APPARATUSES OF DIFFERENT INSTITUTES AND LABORATORIES LOCATED NEAR TrtE EMBASSY THIS LEVEL DOES NOT REPRESENT HOWEVER ANY DANGER TO THE HEALTH OF PEOPOLE MOREOVER IT IS MANY TIMES LESS THAN THOSE NORMS OF IRRADIATION BY RADIO WAVES WHICH ARE ACKNOWLEDGED IN THE USA AS COMPLETELY SAFE 8 INASMUCH AS THE EMBASSY HAS AGAI RETURNED TO THIS QUESTION WE RENEW OUR PROPOSAL THAT SOVIET AND AMERICANS JOINTLY CONDUCT MEASUREMENTS OF THE LEVEL OF RADIO RADIATION IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF THE EMBASSY BUILDI G AND ALSO INSIDE THE BUILDING END QUOTE 9 COMMENT PUBLICITY ON TUMS WILL PROBABLY BREAK EVENTUALLY AND I DO NOT SEE HOW OR WHY WE SHOULD PROTECT SOOIETS IF IT COMES THEIR OBVIOUS DEFENSE WILL BE THAT WE ARE DECLINING THEIR OFFER OF A JOINT INVESTIGATION WHICH OF COURSE WOULD MAKE LITTLE SENSE BECAUSE THEY CAN EASILY ARRANGE THAT THERE WILL BE NOTHING TO INVESTIGATE I DID NOT HOWEVER CATEGORICALLY REJECT THEIR PROPOSAL AND BY SUBMITTING NEW EVIDENCE LEFT AND OPENING TO GO BACK TO THEM AGAIN IF THAT FAILS IT WILL BECOME A QUESTION OF COMPARATIVE CREDIBILITY WITH OUR RECORD BEING THE MORE CONVINCING 10 I CAN DISCUSS MATTER PRIVATELY WITH DOBRYNIN BEFOR HIS RETURN AS WAS DONE IN THE PAST AND SECRETARY MAY CONSIDER TAKING IT UP WITH GROMYKO IN NEW YORC AS SECRETARY RUSK DID IN 1967 IN MEANTIME WE SHOULD GO AHEAD WITH PREPARING THE RECORD GP-3 BEAM • · _____ NO DIST I B CTION NODI j_ ______ __ __-- _ ______ __ __--'-_ ___ ________ _____---'-_· ----- -- __ __ MASTEF CONTE O' Number of Coples Received - - -1-10 ------ Ql3 s siflcatlon ' ------INCOMING No 4343 - ---· Secret ----------------RLB Dlctdbutton B -------'----- Suc gcsled OUTGOING NO 8 19 69 DATE --------- No adclltional dislrlbutlon may CONTROL NO be made of thin commuhtcation wlthout prlor approvrd of th e Presldent or- the Secretary of State --- SUBJECT ------- Moscow 2355 State COPY NUMBER --I IMPORTANT --- -· Moscow POST ···- 92764 RETURNED AND DISTRIBUTION TO ESTROYED - ·- f o - Lf - C -- -- - ___---- - --t ____----- 71-- · __··-· _ tJ - - 6 • ' -- - NO DISTR I BUTION NODISJ Copy from the National Archives Record Group 59 General Records of the Department of State 1967-69 SUBJECT-NUMERIC FILE File BG 13 MOSCOW