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THE US PATROL HAD ENGAGED IN !M?ROPER CONDUCT BUT WOULD INITIATE ATHOROUGH I NVESTIGATION. IF THE STORY P: OVED TO BE TRUE, MEMBERS OF THE PATROL WOULD BE DEALT WITHo ' I THEN TOLD HIM I co Ln NOT 
ACCEPT THE INFERENCE THAT THIS ALLEGED INCIDENT CHARACTERIZED THE BEHAVIOR OF US SOLDIERS IN GERMANY. THE THREE HUNDRED T ,QUSAND . VISITORS TO THE US ARMY-SPONSORED FAIR IN WEST BERLIN WERE PROOF · 
OF THE WARM FEELINGS WHICH BERLINERS HOLD TOWARDS US SOLDIERS. IF. 

ABRASIMOV INSISTED ON THE INFERENCE THAT THIS ALLEGED INCIDENT CHARACTERIZED THE BEHAVIOa OF US SOLDIERS, THERE WAS NO BASIS FOR 
OUR DISCUSSION. ABRASIMOV INDICATED HE PIO NOT MAKE SUCH AN INFER­ENCE • . .. I. I. 
I POINTED CUT THAT HE AND I HAD DISCUSSED THIS 'ISSUE BEFORE AND THAT 

~E HAD  AGREED  TO  AN  EXCHANGE  OF  INFO.  WE  HAD 'IN  THE,MEA~TIME RE­ 
?ORTED  sov  INCIDENTS  .IN · WEST  BERLIN TO  HIM'  BUT  HE  HAD  ~for RECIP­ 
ROCATED.  WE  HAD  INVESTIGATED  THE  CASES  WHICH IABRASOOV Ht~D MENTIONED  
DURING OUR LAST FOUNDATION. OUR  MTG 9 BUT HAD PATROLS WERE  FOUND THE CAREFULLY  ALLEGAT ONS WERE WITHOUT CONTROLLED AND INSTRUCTED,  

AND THE SOLDIERS WOULD NOT RISK THEIR CAREERS BY FOOLISH BEHAVIOR. I SHOWED HIM A SMALL CARD WHICH REGISTERED THE SPEED OF EACH PATROL VEH_CLE, ENABLING US TO STATE UNEQUIVOCALLY THAT CARS HAD NOT SPEEDED. THEN POINTED OUT TWO MUCH MORE SERIOUS INC IDENTS:. <1)
0.1 THE JULY 12 SLAPPING OF US OFFICER; C2) THE EARLIER INCIDENT WHERE AN EAST GERMAN CAR HAD RUN INTO A US CAR WHILE TRYING TO KEEP IN FRONT OF IT. ABRASIMOV SAID THAT THE SLAPPING WAS A REGRETTABLE INCIDEdT WHICH OCCURRED WHILE GDR NONCOMS WERE TRYING TO GET A US CAR OUT OF THE RESTRlCTED ZONE AFTER THE FRONT WHEELS OF THE CAR HAD RUN OVER T.:E~~~ONCOM 'S FEET; ABRASIMOV ADMITTED THAT THE REAC 'ON 0 ·tHE GDR NONCOM WAS UNJUSTIFIED. 
THE DISCUSSIOl OF THIS POINT WAS CONCLUDED WITH MY SUG3ESTION THA~ OUR DEC AGREEI-£NT TO EXCHANGE INFO ON INFRACTONS OF OUR ·HESPECTIVE PATROLS SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT. THIS WAS AN ISSUE ARTIFICIALLY CREATED WE aELIEVE, BY FALSE REPORTS. ABRASIMOV AGREED TO SUCH AN EXCHANGE ADDING HAT SUCH INFO SHOULD BE EXCHANGED "PROMPTLY" HE ·EXPRESSED APPRECIA-ION OF OUR INTENTION TO INVESTIGATE THE KARLSH RST INCIDENT • 
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2. SOV CULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN WEST BERLINo 
ABRASIMOV BE~AN BY COMPLAINING ABOUT THE HELIOS CLOSUR~, MADE A 
BRIEF REFERE 'CE TO THE SOV LIETZENBURGERSTRASSE PROPERTY, AND -HEN 

COMPLA~NED ABOUT THE PROHIBITION AGAINST THE LENING~AD BALLET AND 
THE PIANIST RICHTER. SUCH ACTIONS WOULD NOT IMPROVE RELATIONS. HE 
COULD NOT UNDCRSTAND THE DANGER TO WEST BERLIN IN SUCH ?ONCERTS. 

REPLIED THA' \ E U DERSTOOD THAT THE FRG AND SENAT '.ERE PREPARED 
TO HAVE AN AGREEMENT ON CULTURAL EXCHANGE WITH THE USSR, BUT THAT 


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THE SOVS ..HAD SET POL CONDITIONS. HE DENIED THTS SAYING HE sovs A E ~=~YN~~L~OWRTING0FTHE TRADITIONAL QUADRIPARTITE ~OLlCY THAT"WEST BERL~N 
A . THE FRG. I SAID THAT WE AGREED THAT WEST BERLIN 
WAS NOT A LAND OF THE FRG, BUT THAT WE RECOGNIZED THE CIOSE TTES BETWEEN THE BERLIN AND THE FEDREP INCLUDING THE FRG RIG~T TO ~CT FOR W~ST BERLIN ON CULTURAL MATTERSo ABRASIMOV THEN SA!D THAT CAN­CELLING WEST BERLIN PERFORMANCES OF SOV ARTISTS WAS BAD POLITICS FO;i BRANDT. ARTISTS WOULD PERFORM IN EAST BERLIN AND w~ST BFRLINERS C?ULD SEE THEM ON TELEVISION AND WOULD REALIZi THAT ~R~ND~ ~AS DE-. ~RIVI~G THEM OF THE CHANCE TO SEE THE ARTISTS IN.PERSON 0 I REPLIED 1HAT BRANDT WAS A GOOD PO!.sITI9J:AN AND THAT I WOULD NOT PRESUME TO TELL IM WHAT WOULD MAKE HIM POPULAR. · --­
I RA ·sEO. THE FOL SUBJECTS: . 
l• PASSES FOR WEST BERLINERS 
I SAID HAT_ WE FAVORED GREATER MOVEMENT IN BERLIN 9 AND FELT THAT A PER A.ENT ARRA GEMENT FOR WEST BERLINERS TO VISIT EAST BERLIN WOU.LD GO A LONG WAY TO RELIEVE TENSIONSo I EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT .BRAS1MOV WOULD EXERT INFLUENCE ON THE EAST GERMAN REGIME TO VIEW THE MATTER FROM A HUMANITARIAN VIEWPOINT AND IDT TO INSIST ON pOL CONDiT. 0 S. ABRASIMOV SAID THA THE SOVS WELCOMED THE DEC AGREEMENT, AND THAT THE GDR REGIME WOULD LIKE TO USE THE SAME BASIS FOR A NEW AGREEMENT THE GDR AUTHORITIES HAD MADE MANY CONCESSIONS, BUT COULD NOT MAKE ANY ON THOSE ISSUES WHICH HE UNDERSTOOD WERE STILL THE SUBJECTS OF COi.JTENTION, I.E.. THE FORM OF APPLICATIO 1S A JD THE . FORMULA FOR THE SIGNATURES ON THE AGREEME 1T~ HE BELIEVED THAT BRANDT AND TH-SENAT WERE READY TO ACCEPT THE GDR POSITION, BUT THAT BONN 
,WAS INTERVENING. IN HIS VIEW AN AGREEMENT WOULD BE POL PROFITABLE FOR BRAlDT. . I 
I SAID THAT I UNDERSTOOD THAT BRANDT AND THE FRG HAD AGREED ON THE POSITION THAT SHOULD BE TAKEN IN THE TALKS. THE MAIN QUESTION TO MY MIND WAS WHETHER POL CONSIDERATIONS SHOULD CONTROL DECISIONS,, ON HUMANITARIAN ISSUES. 
t2. SOtJIC BOOMS OVER BERLIN. 
I ASKED ABRi~SLiOV WHETHER ANYTHING OOULD BE DONE TO MINIMIZE THE SONyC
BOOMS •)VER THE BERLIN AREA. WE UNDERSTOOD THA"f sucH BOOMS CANNOT BE 
ELIMINATED ENTIRELY, BUT HOPED THEY COtI.,DJBE MINIMIZED IN THE HEAVILY 
POPULATED ERLIN AREA. ALTHOUGH THEY CAUSED NO PROPERTY DAMAGE, 
THEY HAD ADVERSE EFFECTS ON CERTAIN INFTRM PEOPLE INCLUDING THOSE 
UNDERGO~NG DEL CT~ OPERATIONS. AF~ER ALL, EAST BERLIN SUFFERED FROM 

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THEM AS WELL AS WEST BERLIN. ABRASIMOV REPLIED THAT Cl) T IS S INDEED A PROBLEM FOR EAST BERLIN AS !ELL AS JEST BERLIN, <2> GDR WAS WELL AS SOV ACFT CAUSED BOO)lS, AND (3) THERE WAS ·o I TENTION O DELIBERATELY DISTURBING WEST BERLIN. BOOMS OCCURRED O L¥ 'IN NECESSARY 
CASES AND DURI NG CERTAIN PERIODS. HE ALSO DISTURBED BY OISE OF 
WES TER N' ACFT  LANDING  AT  TEMPELHOF  OR  TEGEL  WHICH  PASSOJER  THE  SOv  
EMB,  BUT  ACCE PTED  THE  NOISE  AS  !NEV ITABLE.  .  .  
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I RAISED THIS POINT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE IMPENDING DEP RTURE OF GE 1 POLK, MORE TO OBTAIN HIS INTERPRETATION OF CURRENT LS 0 F!C~ CIVILIAN PROCEDURE THAN IN HOPES 0 HIS RELENT! G ON THE POSITION HE HAD TAKEN. I POINTED OUT THAT ABRASIMOV. AND · HAD DISCUSSED THIS MATTER AT OUR LAST MTG AND THAT I HAD BEEN LEFT WITH THE IM~ PRESSION THAT THE SOVS HAD NO OBJECTION TO GEN POLK•s E TRY TO EAST BERL! • WAS SURPRISED WHEN SOVS SUBSEQUENTLY REPLIED THROUGH MIL CHA ELS AND SET TWO CONDITIO S. I SAID THAT THE F ~T CONDITION WITHDRAWAL . OF GEN WATSON•S DEC 27, 1961 LETTER SEEMED U ECESSARY, AS THE OFFICE OF THE SOV COMMA DANT HAS B-EN ABOLISHED AND TE COULD THEREFORE HARDLY PROHIBIT OR PERMIT HIS ENTRY TO vEST BERLIN. I VJ AS, HOWEVER, PREPARED TO ASSURE HIM, IF HE WISHED, THAT THE LETTER HAD NO PRESENT EFFECT AND THAT THE SOV COMMANDANT COULD ENTER THE US SECTOR IF OUR COMMANDANT COULD ENTER THEIRS. I THEN ASKED ABRASIMOV IF' HE WOULD GIVE ME HIS I TERPRETATION OF HIS. SECOND CONDITIO~ <THAT ~E ACCEPT THE SOV ORDER OF CONTROL A THE CHECKPOINT) 
ABRASIMOV REPLIED THAT "WE HAD AUTHORIZED OUR MIL MISS_ON TO GIVE REPL y·~ IN THIS CASE BECAUSE TH£ EMS "WAS U ABLE TO REPL "• <THERE WAS NO CLARIFICATION OF WHAT THIS MEANT>. THIS HAS AM TER OF PRES­TIGE AND THE WITHDRAWAL , OF GEN WATSON•S LETTER WOULDHAVETO TAKE tHE SAME FORM AS THE ORIGINAL LETTER. GP-3 CALHOUN 
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HE SAID THATT~ US COMMANDANT WOULD NOT BECONTROLLED AT CHECKPOINT, AS OTHER USMIL ARE NOT CONTROLLED, BUT THAT THE SOVS WOULD HAVE TO HAVE A LETTER RESCINDING THE WATSON ORDER. RE THE SECOND CONDITION, ANY CIVILIAN ACCOMPANYING THE COMMANDANTIDlLD HAVE TO SHOW HIS PASSPORT TO THE BORDER CONTROL PERSONNEL. AFTER ALL, HE SAID, THE ·SOVS SHOW THEIR PASSPORIS TO ENTER WEST BERL!No I POINTED OUT THAT THE SOVS SHOW THEIR PASSPORTS TO THE US MIL POLICEJF NOT TO THE WEST BERLIN POLICE, AND AS<ED HIM WHOM WE SHOULD SHOU Ou, PASSPORTS. TQ~HE REPLIED THAT US CIVILIANS, LIKE OTHER C.. VILIANS, 
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I SAID THAT OURtJVESTIGATION OF THIS . CASE WAS NOW COMPLETE. I WISHED TO TELL HIM ON A CONFIDENT AL BASIS THAT UE NOW KNEW THAT COPPAGE HAD SHOT HIMSELF WITH A HOME~MADE WEAPON. ABRASI~OV SAID THAT HE HAD SUSPECTED .THIS. I SAID THAT WE REGRETTED ANY DIFFICULTY 

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DURING . SMALL TALK DECISION HAD BEEN VISIT TO THE FRG. POINT OF VIEW OF VIEWS AND NOBODY 
FOR AN INVESTIGATION MIGHT HAVE CREATED FOR 
STAFF. ' I 
AT THE END OF THE MTG, ABRASIMOV REMAR.~ED T~AT NO TAKEN "AS · OF THIS MOMENT" ABOUT KHRUS CHEV S ADZHUBEI•S VISIT HAD BEEN VALUABLE FROM THE 
INFO~ ALTHOUGH HE HAD CONVINCED NOBODY OF HIS 
HAD CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT HE GERMAN QUESTION. 
ABRASIMOV HAD READ MY TUTZING SPEECH <WHICH HE HAD BEFORE HIM 
REPRODUCTION FROM THIS COPY IS __.:.:.C0.:::..:?:.:..::~l':.....:I::.=:.1'~!.:;;..;..~!:;;:....;!l;;;_\:..;;;;;L;_____pROHIBITED UNLESS "UNCLASSIFIED" 
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ON THE TABLE> AND .STATED rHAT HE COULD .. SUBSCRIBE COMPLETELY TO THE ·FIRST PART OF THE SPEECHo CI ASSUME HE MEANT· OF THAT_PORTION DEALING WTH THE PASS QUESTION). HE CDUD NOT HOWEVER 9 AGREE._ WITH MY STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE POSSIBLE POL LIABILITY TO THE WEST BERLINERS AND WEST GERMANS OF NEGOTIATING WITH THE GDR AUTHORITIES. 
MY ENTRY AND EXIT THROUGH THE FRIEDRICHSTRASSE CHECKPOINT WERE HANDLED SMOOTHLY AND WITHOUT INCIDENT. THE SOV PROTOCOL· OFFICER MET ME AT THE CHECKPOINT_ AND ESCORTED MY CAR TO THE EMB; HE LATER ESCORTED MY CAR BACK-THROUGH. THE CHECKPOINT. ABRASIMOV AND I AGREED THAT WE WOULD TELL THE PRESS WE HAD DISCUSSED "QUESTION OF MUTUAL ­INTEREST FALLING WITHIN OUR RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES~. 
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