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lation by Mark H. Doctoroff] October.
I. Salinger requested that I pass on to N.S.
* * * * * In relation to the information which you Khrushchev that Kennedy is thankful to him for
received about U Thant s conversations with the the decision which he made to dismantle and
Telegram from Soviet Ambassador to the Cuban representative [Garcia] Inchaustegi, you remove the missiles, and expresses his confi-
USA Dobrynin to USSR MFA, must be guided by the following: dence that the agreement which was reached,
28 October 1962 First. You must declare to U Thant that built on mutual trust, will open the way to the
orders have been given to the Soviet officers in resolution of other ripe problems. The President
Cuba to take down the emplacements which the does not want to portray the matter as if we won
TOP SECRET Americans characterize as offensive weapons. a victory over the USSR, said Salinger. His
Making Copies Prohibited Declare also that by itself, it goes without saying version for the press is exactly reflected in [New
Copy No. 1 that any type of work related to the creation of York Times correspondent James] Reston s ar-
such emplacements has already ceased. ticle of 29 October. Kennedy declared to the
CIPHERED TELEGRAM Second. Also inform U Thant about the members of the government that it makes no
Soviet government s agreement to his proposal sense to try to use the situation that developed to
R. Kennedy, with whom I met, listened very that representatives of the International Red Cross Khrushchev s detriment. In this spirit, Rusk
attentively to N.S. Khrushchev s response. Ex- be allowed to visit the Soviet ships bound for conducted talks with 50 of the most prominent
pressing thanks for the report, he said that he Cuba in order to confirm that on them there are and trusted observers in the USA and allied
would quickly return to the White House in order none of the types of weapons about which the countries.
to inform the President about the important President and government of the USA show con- 2. Kennedy, in Salinger s words, is now
response of the head of the Soviet government. cern, calling them offensive weapons. In this extremely preoccupied with somehow disarming
This is a great relief, R. Kennedy added fur- regard it is intended that the stated representatives his adversaries, who are asserting that he has once
ther, and it was evident that he expressed his will be conveyed to both Soviet ships and to the again fallen into a trap... We must, he said, no
words somehow involuntarily. I, said R. ships of neutral countries. You must inform U matter what, publish evidence that the missiles
Kennedy, today will finally be able to see my Thant, for his personal information, that on those have been dismantled and taken away. Let it be
kids, for I have been entirely absent from home. Soviet ships which at the present time are bound representatives of the UN or of the Red Cross, let
According to everything it was evident that for Cuba, there are no weapons at all. it be observation photos taken from the air, it is all
R. Kennedy with satisfaction, it is necessary to Stress that the Soviet government has taken the same to us. In this regard we are not demand-
say, really with great relief met the report about all these steps so as not to step on the negotiations, ing access to the missiles themselves, they really
N.S. Khrushchev s response. which have begun on U Thant s initiative, be- are secret. We must publish evidence that they
In parting, R. Kennedy once again requested tween him and the representatives of the USSR, are no longer on the launching pads and that they
that strict secrecy be maintained about the agree- USA, and Cuba, aimed at liquidating the danger- have been taken away.
ment with Turkey. Especially so that the corre- ous situation which has developed. 3. Kennedy, in Salinger s words, as in the
spondents don t find out. At our place for the As far as the issue of the possibility of U past is under strong pressure from the right-
time being even Salinger does not know about it Thant s journey to Cuba with a group of aides and wingers, who are condemning him for the fact
(It was not entirely clear why he considered it experts is concerned, it goes without saying that that he, for the first time in the history of the
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permanent preservation of a Communist pre-
serve by the shores of the USA. In order to
withdraw the Jupiters, this was also the first
deflect these attacks, Kennedy must receive evi-
public indication that the issue had even been
dence to the effect that Castro has no offensive
privately discussed.
weapons.
With Dobrynin obviously unable to publish
4. Kennedy, as Salinger asserts, believes
his own version he remained Moscow s am-
that achieving a resolution to the Cuban crisis
bassador in Washington until 1986, and Soviet
will open a completely new epoch in Soviet-
diplomats were not in the habit of publishing tell-
American relations, when mutual trust will be-
all exposés prior to glasnost the first important
NEW RUSSIAN LAW
come the basis of everything. One of the first
Soviet account of the event to emerge was con-
AND THE
issues to be resolved can and must be the issue of
tained in the tape-recorded memoirs of deposed
ARCHIVAL SITUATION
a test ban.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, which were
5. Regarding a meeting between Kennedy
smuggled to the West and published in 1970
On 25 January 1995 the Russian parlia-
and Khrushchev, before the Cuban crisis a major-
(after Khrushchev s death, additional installments
ment passed a Federal Law on Information,
ity of members of the government spoke out
saw print in the West in 1974 and 1990). The
Information Systems, and the Protection of
against such a contact, although it had been
account of the RFK-Dobrynin meeting in
Information. It was signed into law by
publicly stated that Kennedy will meet with
Khrushchev Remembers, in the form of a para-
Russian President Boris Yeltsin on 20 February
Khrushchev if he comes to the General Assem-
phrase from memory of Dobrynin s report, did
1995 and was published in Sobranie
bly. Kennedy himself had doubted that this
not directly touch upon the secret discussions
Zakonodatel stva Rossiskoi Federatsii 8 (20
meeting will bring any sort of positive results.
concerning the Jupiters, but did raise eyebrows
February 1995), pp. 1213-1225.
Now, - said Salinger - the situation has
with its claim that Robert F. Kennedy had fretted
The lengthy, 25-article law covers a wide
changed. The Cuban crisis showed that the issues
to Dobrynin that if his brother did not approve an
range of topics, and much of it has no direct
on which the improvement of Soviet-American
attack on Cuba soon, the American military might
bearing on the archives. In a few places,
relations depends must be resolved urgently.
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