Eastern European and Soviet Department: Relations between the USA and Soviet Union

A file containing documents concerning relations between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. Subjects covered in the file include Soviet criticism of statements by the American president, Ronald Reagan, and the Secretary of State, Alexander Haig; Soviet concern at the improvement in American relations with China; the arrest of a suspected American spy in Moscow; and a speech by Haig in Berlin. Other subjects discussed in the file include an exchange of letters between Reagan and the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev; a speech by the new American ambassador in Moscow, Arthur A. Hartman, which was described as "a U.S. agenda for discussions with the Soviet Union"; the possibility of a summit meeting between Reagan and Brezhnev; a meeting between Haig and the Soviet foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko, scheduled to take place in Berlin in January 1982; and Soviet allegations that the United States was a "breeding ground of terrorism".