When Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin came into the Madison Hotel, with his retinue and his ostentatious hairdo, I thought the pin-striped American businessmen packed tight into the conference room just might rise to their feet and give him a standing ovation. They had paid an “investment” of $995 to attend this “executive briefing” on “U.S. business opportunities in the Soviet Union,” sponsored by Hill & Knowlton, and organized by Business Week and the Institute for International Research. Soviet officials were dotted about the room, and the spirit of Armand Hammer and Dwayne Andreas pervaded the proceedings. Andreas, the chairman of Archer-Daniels-Midland, recently wrote an article for The International Economy entitled “I Have Seen the Future and It Can Work.”
Dobrynin referred to former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartmann (chairman of the conference) as his “colleague,” while Hartmann in turn said that Dobrynin was a “valued colleague of our Secretary of State.”
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