Michel Tatu was a French journalist who served as Moscow correspondent for Le Monde from 1957-1964. In the interview he describes Premier Khrushchev's exaggeration of Soviet ICBM forces, but notes that the USSR did have "a huge arsenal" deployed against Europe, which he would tell European visitors made them "our hostages." Khrushchev's boasting, he relates, caused the U.S. to build up its arsenal even further. Mr. Tatu also describes the impact of the shooting down of the American U-2 reconnaissance plane, which the Soviet leader delayed announcing -- perhaps, Mr. Tatu speculates, because he did not want to wreck the Paris summit or at least hoped to get an apology directly from President Eisenhower. Mr. Tatu explains that Khrushchev's Kremlin rivals used the incident to turn Soviet policy away from detente.