INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFK COOPERATION, 1959-79 4^- 



Teaguc relates: 



They also showed us a museum which I thought was really e 



Ambassador Dobrynin was understandably upset when he learned 

 about the gaffe. He called on Teague and according to Teague: 



Ambassador Dobrynin wanted me to go back over there and they wanted to 

 show me around really show me around. 



Returning from his trip, Teague asked his subcommittee staff 

 director, Jim Wilson: "Was the Rendezvous and Docking Program 

 authorized in the * * * NASA Authorization" in 19~2^ Wilson 

 replied on September 11, 1972, that the direct answer was "No," but 

 NASA had succeeded in reprograming $38 million from the Skylab 

 program to start Apollo-Soyuz on its way. Sure enough, a careful re- 

 view of the records shows that Chairman Miller, on June 27, sent a 

 duplicated memorandum to "All Committee Members" indicating 

 that N'AS V planned to reprogram funds for this purpose. The very 

 same day. June 2", Miller dispatched a letter to NASA Administrator 

 Fletcher, stating: 



The committee interposes no objection to your proceeding with the proposed 

 program adjustments. 



TEAGUE OPPOSITION TO APOLLO-SOYUZ 



The Houston Chronicle carried a front-page article on January 7, 

 19~3, with a 3-column headline: "Drop U.S.-Russ Space Flight, Says 

 Teague." In the article, based on an interview with Teague, it was 

 pointed out that President Nixon's Office of Management and Budget 

 was holding NASA to a total expenditure of about $300 million less 

 than 1972. Teague then told the Houston interviewer: 



This cooperative effort we are trying to make with the Russians, which I have 

 considerable doubt about, runs about $300 million. Whether it is better used that 

 u .i\ . 1 am yet to be convinced. We are going to look very carefully at this. It's strictly 

 a politicial, psychological effort and maybe it's great, but we are sure going to hold 

 some careful hearings on it. 



His mail seemed to support Teague. 



"Put a stop to this ridiculous effort," wrote a man from Muncie, 

 Ind. "If they were trustworthy it would be OK, but why should we 

 divulge any more information to them than what they already know 

 about out efforts?" 



A Houston, Tex. man wrote Teague: 



1 find it intriguing they would disallow vour entry to their so-called vast tech- 

 nological complexes. If, indeed, they did bar you from any on-site inspection this only 

 confirms the deep suspicion that the Russians are about as capable of equally sharing 

 in any space program, or contributing something to our space efforts, as I have of 

 being elected to be the next President of the United States 



[The writer's name was not Carter. 



