1.
LV STREET SCENE PAN ACROSS TO SOVIET EMBASSY
0.10

2.
SV FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S CAR ARRIVES AT SOVIET EMBASSY
0.20

3.
CU PLAQUE OUTSIDE SOVIET EMBASSY
0.22

4.
CU PLAQUE OFFICIALS INTO EMBASSY
0.35

5.
SV SOVIET EMBASSY
0.40



Initials TS/V/JB/SGM



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Background: THE U.S.S.R.s AMBASSADOR TO EAST GERMANY AND FRANCE'S AMBASSADOR TO WEST GERMANY TODAY (WEDNESDAY) HAD A BRIEF LUNCH MEETING. THE MEETING TOOK PLACE IN EAST BERLIN.

THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR, M. FRANCOIS FOURNIER DE CLAUSONNE SEYDOUX, MET THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR, PYOTR ABRASSIMOV, IN THE U.S.S.R.'S EMBASSY IN EAST BERLIN'S MAIN STREET, THE UNDER DEN LINGEN. THE MEETING TOOK PLACE AT THE INVITATION OF THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR.

NO OFFICIAL EXPLANATION OF THE MEETING WAS GIVEN, BUT THERE HAS BEEN SPECULATION THAT FRANCE MAY BE CONSIDERING OPENING A TRADE MISSION IN EAST BERLIN.