A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files THE SOVIET UNION 1967–1969 Part 1: Political, Governmental, and National Defense Affairs A UPA Collection from Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files THE SOVIET UNION 1967–1969 PART 1: POLITICAL, GOVERNMENTAL, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE AFFAIRS Subject-Numeric Categories: AID, CSM, DEF, and POL Project Coordinator Robert E. Lester Guide compiled by Joanna Claire Dubus A UPA Collection from 4520 East-West Highway • Bethesda, MD 20814-3389 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Confidential U.S. State Department central files. The Soviet Union, 1967–1969 [microform] / project coordinator, Robert E. Lester. microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Summary: Reproduces documents from Record Group 59, Records of the State Department, Subject-numeric files, 1967–1969, in the custody of the National Archives, College Park, MD. Accompanied by a printed guide compiled by Joanna Claire Dubus. ISBN 1-55655-978-X 1. United States—Foreign relations—Soviet Union—Sources. 2. Soviet Union—Foreign relations—United States—Sources. 3. Soviet Union—Politics and government—1953–1985— Sources. 4. United States—Foreign relations—1963–1969—Sources. I. Title: Confidential U.S. State Department central files. II. Title: Soviet Union, 1967–1969. III. Lester, Robert. IV. Dubus, Joanna Claire, 1981– V. United States. Dept. of State. VI. University Publications of America (Firm) E183.8.S65 327.73047'09'046—dc22 2004048545 CIP The documents reproduced in this publication are among the records of the U.S. Department of State in the custody of the National Archives of the United States. No copyright is claimed in these official records. Copyright © 2004 LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ISBN 1-55655-978-X. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Scope and Content Note ......................................................................................................... v Source Note............................................................................................................................. vii Editorial Note .......................................................................................................................... vii State Department Records Classification System, February 1963–July 1973 ..................... ix Subject File Outlines (with Secondary File Designations) .............................................. xv Country Abbreviations ....................................................................................................... xvii Sample Reel Index Entries ..................................................................................................... xxvii Abbreviations .......................................................................................................................... xxix Reel Index Reel 1 Foreign Economic Assistance (AID) ................................................................................ 1 Communism (CSM) .......................................................................................................... 1 Defense Affairs (DEF) ...................................................................................................... 3 Reels 2–4 Defense Affairs (DEF) cont. ............................................................................................. 4 Reel 5 Defense Affairs (DEF) cont. ............................................................................................. 12 Political Affairs and Relations (POL) ................................................................................ 15 Reels 6–24 Political Affairs and Relations (POL) cont. ....................................................................... 15 Subject Index .......................................................................................................................... 61 iii SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The U.S. State Department Central Files are the definitive source of American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments throughout the world in the twentieth century. This edition consists of the Central Files for the Soviet Union for the period between 1967 and 1969. The files are arranged according to the State Department Records Classification System, February 1963–1973. The subjects from the classification system included in this edition are AID (Foreign Economic Assistance), CSM (Communism), DEF (Defense Affairs), and POL (Political Affairs and Relations). The files consist of cables and letters sent and received by U.S. diplomats and embassy personnel; reports on meetings between U.S. and foreign government officials and leaders; newspaper clippings and translations from journals and newspapers; transcripts of speeches; and reports and observations on political, military, and social affairs. The first few documents in this edition of Central Files are from the AID category (Reel 1, frames 0001–0010); they focus on Soviet economic assistance to Middle Eastern nations and North Vietnam. Immediately following the AID file is the CSM file, composed primarily of correspondence on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. This file begins on frame 0011 of Reel 1 and ends with frame 0659 on the same reel. The DEF category begins on frame 0660 of Reel 1 and continues through frame 0782 of Reel 5. Major topics covered include the proposed Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between world nuclear powers, Soviet troop movements in Eastern European nations, and military assistance from the Soviet Union to other nations. A large portion of the documents deal with the Soviet Union’s supplying of arms to India and Pakistan. The POL category comprises the rest of this edition, starting with frame 0783 of Reel 5 and concluding at the end of Reel 24. Detailed here are the effects on U.S.-Soviet relations of various events, such as the Czechoslovakia invasion, the war in Vietnam, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. During this period, the Soviet Politburo, under the leadership of Leonid I. Brezhnev, became more active in silencing dissidents than it had been under Brezhnev’s predecessor, Nikita S. Khrushchev. This issue is also a major part of the POL file, as are changes in the Soviet leadership and the celebrations for the fiftieth v anniversary of the Soviet state. The Politburo topics are primarily discussed in Joint Weeka Reports (POL 2-1), weekly reports written by U.S. diplomatic personnel that provide brief summaries of both internal and foreign developments. These summaries are based on observations of U.S. officials and translations from newspapers and periodicals. Foreign developments in Weeka reports include Soviet policy toward Middle Eastern nations, Communist activities in South America, and Sino-Soviet relations. Also available in the POL category are reports on U.S. diplomatic personnel visits to Soviet cities; biographical information on Soviet diplomatic personnel; and foreign visits and meetings by Leonid Brezhnev, Aleksei Kosygin, Andrei Gromyko, and Nikolai Podgorny. The defection of Josef Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, is a well-covered topic, as are travel controls, Soviet aircraft operations near U.S. naval units, and Soviet fishing vessels trawling in U.S. waters. vi SOURCE NOTE Microfilmed from the holdings of the National Archives, College Park, Maryland, Record Group 59: Records of the Department of State, Central Foreign Policy Files, Subject-Numeric Files, 1967–1969, for the Soviet Union (and USSR). Materials from the following Subject-Numeric File categories were included in this microfilm publication: Economic (selected), and Political and Defense. Specific subject categories include AID (all types of aid), only from the Economic Subject-Numeric File category; and CSM (Communism), DEF (Defense), INT (Intelligence), and POL (Political Affairs and Relations) from the Political and Defense Subject-Numeric File category. EDITORIAL NOTE The Subject-Numeric Files for February 1963 through July 1973 are arranged by subject-numeric categories, not by country. Therefore, some file folders will contain multiple subject categories. In addition, some folders will have more than one country represented by a single subject category. LexisNexis has microfilmed all available documents relating to the subject categories listed above for the Soviet Union (USSR), excluding only exact duplicate copies of documents. In addition to the documents, LexisNexis has filmed file folders when possible. LexisNexis has microfilmed the documents as they are arranged at the National Archives. In a small number of instances, some documents have been misfiled and misclassified by the State Department. LexisNexis has included, in brackets, corrected citations for these items. The file containing the specific subject category INT had no documents for the Soviet Union. A few Document Withdrawal Sheets exist in the files, and LexisNexis has filmed them. Withdrawal sheets itemize documents that have been withdrawn from the files, due to national security restrictions, by the National Archives staff. vii viii STATE DEPARTMENT RECORDS CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM, FEBRUARY 1963–JULY 1973 Essential to the effective administration of the State Department and its overseas posts is the management of records. In keeping with the State Department’s program to improve and modernize its administrative processes, the department developed a new comprehensive records classification