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This Central Intelligence Agency report, dated 1 June 1984 and marked unclassified for official use only, reviews how Soviet leaders and media treated President Reagan from November 1980 through May 1984. It finds that Moscow twice moderated its rhetoric to test prospects for better relations, and that attacks became the most abusive in two decades after the South Korean airliner shootdown. The report compiles authoritative Soviet statements and midlevel and routine media commentary as a baseline for analysts.
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## UNCLASSIFIED FOUO Document 1 of 2 AGAL Concatenated Database breaking up in its favor the existing military equilibrium. 238. Now it appears that in the West, too, many have come to realize that the torpedoing of the talks on nuclear arms in Geneva was programmed in advance. This was done by those who were bent on one thing--to deploy at all cost in NATO West European countries their first-strike nuclear missiles against the Soviet Union and other socialist countries. That is how they exploded the talks. They tried to feign grief at this but nothing came out of it. Their pretense is too obvious. 239. They try to cover up their actions with talk like the end of the world has not come and a "new glacial period" has not set in. But this is a sham, artificial optimism. Is it not clear that the appearance in Europe of new American missiles has drastically aggravated the nuclear threat. And this threat continues to grow with every new missile that is being deployed, including on the territory of the FRG. 240. Chernenko, remarks to West German Foreign Minister Genscher (Soviet domestic radio, 22 May 84) 241. During the talk, Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko reaffirmed the invariability of the USSR's course for guaranteeing peace, curbing the arms race, and averting a nuclear catastrophe. He drew attention to the serious growth of the danger of war, especially following the emergence in West Europe--including the territory of the FRG--of new U.S. first-strike missiles. In connection with this, it was stressed that if the United States and NATO continue to step up the nuclear threat, adequate countermeasures will steadfastly be implemented by the Soviet Union and its allies. They will not permit any military superiority over themselves. However, building up the military confrontation is not of our choosing. 242. The USSR is in favor of radical limitation and reduction of nuclear weapons in accordance with the principle of equality and identical security. . . . 243. It is the Soviet Union that advocates meaningful dialogue and puts forward specific proposals aimed at reaching practical agreements. The U.S. Administration is aware of the Soviet proposals. The USSR proposes to the United States, in particular, that negotiations should be started on preventing the militarization of space, and that the negotiations on a total and universal ban of nuclear weapons tests should be resumed, with the participation of Britain. 244. We have called upon the United States to bring into force finally, the Soviet-U.S. treaties of 1974 and 1976 on limiting
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