111. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the Soviet Union1
320904/TOSEC 140040. Subject: U.S. Demarche to Soviets on Sakharov. Ref: State 316836.2
1. (S—Entire text).
2. Soviet DCM Bessmertnykh called DAS Scanlan on December 3 and said that he wanted to pass on to us orally a reply the Soviet Embassy had just received from Moscow to Undersecretary Stoessel’s demarche to Bessmertnykh on November 27 about “two Soviet gentlemen.” Bessmertnykh said that Moscow was surprised that this issue had been raised again after Ambassador Dobrynin had presented the official Soviet position to Secretary Haig. Bessmertnykh said he had been instructed to emphasize that there is no such issue in Soviet/American relations.
- Source: Department of State, Central Foreign Policy File, [no film number]. Secret; Immediate; Nodis. Sent Immediate for information to Madrid for US Delegation to CSCE. Sent for information to the Secretary of State’s Delegation. Drafted by Schumaker (EUR/SOV/SOBI); cleared by Simons, Scanlan, and McManaway; approved by Stoessel. Haig was in St. Lucia December 2–4 for a meeting of the OAS General Assembly.↩
- See Document 107.↩