Ambassador Dodrynin, in writing about his relations to the KGB residents at the soviet embassy in Washington, argues that the respective spheres of competence of intelligence officers and diplomats should not overlap. this objective, however, is difficult to achieve, since intelligence officers and diplomats all try to observe and assess the same developments in the host country. therefore, there is a need for them to cooperate wit him an embassy. If they do not cooperate , the risk remains that the embassy will disseminate different views on the same subject in the host country and report different assessments back home, as Dobrynin correctly observes. As practice has shown, it seems to be difficult to enforce coordination by rules alone. cooperation and coordination depend largely on good relation between the ambassador and his station chief.