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FROM: MOSCOW TO: Secretary of State NO: 2898, MAY 24, 4 PM PRIORITY EYES ONLY SECRETARY
FOLLOWING ARE MINOR AND SUPPLEMENTAL ITEMS IN MY CONVERSATION WITH KHRUSHCHEV LAST NIGHT.
K MENTIONED WE HAD PRESSED HIM FOR RELEASE RB-47 FLIERS. HE HAD DELIBERATELY NOT DONE SO UNTIL AFTER ELECTION AS EARLIER RELEASE WOULD HAVE BEEN EXPLOITED BY NIXON AND IN HIS OPINION MIGHT HAVE CHANGED OUTCOME. SAID FRANKLY DID NOT LIKE NIXON AND THOUGHT PRESIDENT KENNEDY MUCH HIGHER CALIBRE. SAID LODGE HAD TOLD HIM RELATIONS WOULD BE EVEN BETTER UNDER NIXON THAN UNDER EISENHOWER.
K MENTIONED LAOS ONLY IN PASSING STATING HOPE WE WOULD BE ABLE REACH AGREEMENT. NO MENTION OF CONGO.
K SAID IF VIENNA WENT WELL AND RELATIONS IMPROVED HOPED WOULD BE POSSIBLE INVITE KENNEDY VISIT SOVIET UNION NEXT YEAR THOUGH CLEARLY ATMOSPHERE NOT RIGHT FOR INVITATION THIS YEAR.
K POINTED OUT THEY HAD ABOLISHED FOREIGN BASES AND SETTLED AUSTRIAN PROBLEM. THEY VERY SATISFIED AUSTRIAN SOLUTION. HE MENTIONED HE HAD TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY THROUGHOUT AUSTRIA IN l946 INCOGNITO IN GENERALS UNIFORM.
DISCUSSING DIVISION OF GERMANY, MENTIONED HIS BROTHER HAD SUPPORTED WHITES IN SOVIET CIVIL WAR AND I GATHERED HAD BEEN KILLED AT THAT TIME. HE REFERRED TO GRIEF THIS DIVISION HAD BROUQHT HIS MOTHER. |