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COMMENTS OF YUGOSLAV. AND BLOC DIPLOMATS SE. DATE DISTR.
ON THE PROBABLE EFFECT OF KENNEDY ASSAS GEMAN
SINATION ON EAST-WEST RELATIONS
25-29 NOVEMBER 1963..
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GREECE, ATHENS
DATE ACQ.
REPORT NO. TDCS-3/566,658
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6 DECEMBER 1963
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_ DUNGAN PRECEDENCE
_ECKEL
_ FORRESTA REFERENCES
JOHNSON
(28 NOVEMBER, 2 DECEMBER 1963)
APPRAISAL 2 (THAT STATEMENTS ARE ACCURATELY REPORTED?) FIELD REPORT NO.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
A GREEK POLITICAL OBSERVER (B) WITH CONTACTS AMONG BLOC DIPLOMATS IN ATHENS,
FROM THE DIPLOMATS MENTIONED BELOW. SMITH, WM. Y.
FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF (PORTION GARBLED-BEING SERVICED)* BEING TAKEN BY SOVBLOC
AND YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATS IN GREEK CIRCLES:
1. ON 25 NOVEMBER 63, YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR TO GREECE PEKO
DAPCEVIC EXPRESSED HOPE THAT ASSASSINATION OF KENNEDY WOULD NOT
CHANGE THE INTERNATIONAL ATMOSPHERE, ADDING THAT HE IS CERTAIN
SOVIET UNION IS WELL DISPOSED TO CONTINUE FRIENDLY CONTACTS WITH
WEST
DAPCEVIC SAID THERE HAS BEEN "A GREAT PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGE"
ON PART OF SOVIET PEOPLE IN PAST FEW YEARS FROM EARLIER ATTITUDE
THAT ALL AMERICANS AND PARTICULARLY AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ARE WAR
MONGERS TO CURRENT THINKING THAT AMERICANS, LIKE SOVIETS,
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REALLY WANT PEACE. ZENITH OF THIS CHANGE CAME WHEN UNITED STATES
ANNOUNCED IT WAS WILLING TO SELL WHEAT TO SOVIET UNION. ACCORDING
TO DAPCEVIC, THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. MADE TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON SOVIET
PEOPLE AND THEIR FEELING IS NOW SO FAVORABLE TOWARD AMERICANS
THAT EVEN IF SOVIET LEADERSHIP WANTED TO REVERSE THIS FEELING,
IT COULD NOT EASILY DO SO.
2. ON 26 NOVEMBER, CZECH FIRST. SECRETARY VAKLAV SVESTKA
STATED THAT CZECH EMBASSY IN ATHENS HAD NOT YET RECEIVED REACTION
OF PRAGUE TO THE ASSASSINATION, BUT FEELING OF CZECH EMBASSY
PEOPLE IN ATHENS WAS THAT US POLICY WOULD NOT CHANGE MATERIALLY.
SVESTKA EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT ASSASSINATION WILL HAVE DELAYING
ACTION ON IMPROVED EAST-WEST RELATIONS: UNDER KENNEDY. THINGS
WERE MOVING QUICKLY TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING, AND CHANGE OF PRESIDENT
NOW WILL OF NECESSITY SLOW DOWN THE COURSE OF EVENTS BECAUSE
"PERSONAL FACTOR" IS NOW MISSING. KENNEDY HAD DEVELOPED CONTACTS
WITH SOVIET LEADERSHIP AND ACHIEVED ACCEPTANCE OF SOVBLOC (PORTION
GARBLED) *POPULATIONS AS PEACE LOVING MAN 3 JOHNSON HAS TO ESTABLISH¨
THIS FOR HIMSELF NOW, AND IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME.
3. ON 29 NOVEMBER, SOVIET FIRST SECRETARY VITALIY. NOVIKOV
· STATED THAT SOVIETS DO NOT EXPECT IMMEDIATE CHANGE IN US FOREIGN
POLICY BECAUSE WITH ONLY ONE YEAR BEFORE ELECTIONS JOHNSON AS
NON-ELECTED PRESIDENT IS NOT LIKELY TO CHANGE BASIC KENNEDY
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POLICIES. SOVIETS ARE ANXIOUS, HOWEVER, OVER FUTURE EAST-WEST
RELATIONS. ASSASSINATION CLEARLY SHOWS RADICAL RIGHT-WING ELEMENTS
ARE STRONG, HAVE SUPPORTERS IN LOCAL POLICE AND POLITICAL CIRCLES
AND ARE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR THEIR IDEALS. IT ALSO REVEALS,
NOVIKOV SAID, STRENGTH OF REACTION IN AMERICA TO KENNEDY. POLICIES
SOVIET PEOPLE FEAR THAT RIGHT-WING WILL BE DOMI NANT.
SON 29 NOVEMBER, RUMANIAN AMBASSADOR MIRCEA BALANESCU SAID
HE WAS CERTAIN THERE WOULD BE NO CHANGE IN BLOC POLICY VIS-A-VIS
:
WEST AND ANY INCREASE IN TENSION WOULD BE RESULT OF CHANGED
AMERICAN POLICY.
5. FIELD. DISSEM STATE ARMY NAVY AIR EUCOM CINCNELM CINCSOUTH
(PERSONAL).
6. *HEADQUARTERS COMMENT:
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