By this point, delegation chief Gerard Smith had returned to Washington, where he became belatedly aware that Kissinger had been wheeling and dealing on nuclear issues without letting the US SALT team know.4 To Smith, who had spent months abroad trying to reach a deal under impossibly rigid guidelines, such duplicity was appalling. When Kissinger finally showed him portions of the negotiating record, he was also struck by the stupidity of the deal in surrendering an important national interest. And for what end?
