AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORD. SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER Date: 10/28/04 JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION CIA - 104-10003-10064 JFK 201-289248 DOCUMENT INFORMATION AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : HELMS, RICHARD, DD/P, CIA TO : RANKIN, J. LEE, GEN COUNSEL, WC TITLE : DISCUSSION BETWEEN CHAIRMAN KHRUSHCHEV AND MR. DREW PEARSON RE LEE HARVEY OSWALD - MEMO TO WARREN COMMISSION DATE 05/27/1964 PAGES 4 , SUBJECTS : KHRUSHCHEV wc PEARSON, D. DOCUMENT TYPE’: PAPER . CLASSIFICATION. :.-SECRET - RESTRICTIONS 1A 1B CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 06/08/93 COMMENTS : OSW9 : V38 1993.06.08.17:33:39:870000 104-10003-10064 HW 53199 DocId: 327105956 [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED Page 3
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE ‘AGENCY: py , WASHINGTON 25, 0.6. er Se o CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM - 3 - , Fileage As Sanliizes oo OT May 196K MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel President's Conuleaion on the Assassination of Prasident Kennady SUBJECT: sd” Discussion Between Chairman Khrushchev and . ; Mr. Drew Pearson re les Harvey Oewald = Mere To Warveu Commirston oe ie this will axplity wy telaphonte remarks to you on 2 May, during which I informed you thet Mr. and Mrs. Drew Pearson had had a lS-minute conversation in Cairo on 2h May with Chairmen Khrushchev. ! 26 (employee in Cairo has reported a can- vereatiog ¥ whieh emi his wife Held with Mr. and Mrs. Drew Pearson in Cairo on 2h and 25 May. Mrs. Pearson is # cousin of the wife offthe C/A employes. Nothing in the cable ; quoted below be construed as“Obviating any desirability | the Commiesion may feel about securing testimony directly from Mro and Mre. Pearson. We are forwarding it to you solely far the parpose of piscing in your hands az the earliest maent the information which’ bas been provided to us ‘in this privileged fashion. ogy. ms message sol the State} Cairo reads as follows: ; 9664 pazniues sy eseajoy WVYY850"d M3IARY TVOIMOLSIH VIO “Mre. Drew Pearson provided on the evening of 24 May the first information on the Osweld portion . of the corvrersstion vith Chairman and Mrs, Khrushchev. Mrae. Khrushchev opened the conversation vy inquiring about Mre.. Kennedy: and expreasing concern about and _ affection for her. Mrs. Pearson reassured her, saying “tbat Mrs. Kennedy had borne up remarkebly well end was . An good health. (Most of this conversstion was in English which Mrs. Khrushchev speaks fairly well, with some assistance from Kirushchev! interpreter, who had served in the past as interpreter for the Pearsons and who helped arrange the meeting.) This led into Mrs. Khrushchev! inquiry about their mutual friend, ; the wife: of Cates. Justice Warren, and ‘thence inte te ‘ . ROL ‘eeeLtye coba OL 4 £72 ‘gogmmsae* [v} Document Number 7la3\o— Wctaby crseq EITe I~ DPAINK. for FOIA Rexiow on JUN 076 ge a gst HW 53199 Docld:32105956 Page 9°.
HW 53199 DoclId: 327105956 _ murder the assassin with the Dallas Police Department - ‘being an accessory. Mree Pearson got the} impression :: . that Chairmen Khrushchev had some dark thoughts about taken place just as had been reparted in? tbe’ ‘newspapers * and presumably by the Soviet Ambassador in Washington. Chairman Khrushchev was utterly incredulous and his — attitude was characterized by Mrs. Pearson as being . archatypical ‘of every European I have. ever talked to on a this subject'. That is, that there was some kind of  . _ ere conspiracy to assassinate President Kemedy and then the American Right Wing being behind this conspiracy - altbcugh Chairman Khrashchev did not articulate this in ary clear fashion. Mrs. Pearson was a bit vague on this point in distingnishing between what Chairmen Khrushchev said and what she thought he believed. When Mr. Pearson said that we Americans are peculiar peoples, it under _standable that fcreigners had difficulty comprehending this fantastic episode, but in fact Oswald was mad, had | acted on his own, ditto Ruby, Chairman Khrushchev said flatly that he did not believe this. He‘said he dig °° RAR not believe that the American security services were thie inept. Mr. Pearson again said he agreed this waz haré to tbelisve but the facte were as they appeared. . Mrs.. Khrushchev: alec expressed. areas and reiterated her affecticn. for Mra. Kennedy. Mrse Pearson repeated that the reaction of Chairman Khrushchev and his wife ‘was one cf flat disbelief and archetypical of the universal Eurcpean belief that there was some lind of Amertcan conspiracy behind the assassination of Presi- dent Kennedy ami the surder of Oswald. Chairman and Mre. Khrushchev could not belseve that the affair had happened as it appareztly did and Mr. Pearson made no headway whatever in trying to change their belie? that something wes Oct on the levels Chairman Khrushcher greeted Mr. ard Mrs. Pearson's efforte with a tolerant - gpcile. The conversation then drifted into Chairman ‘Enxtshcher: friendiy comments about President Johnson. "On the morning of 25 May, Mre Pearson referred en passant to the Oswald portion of the conversation, ~ . ery Page .10.-.-..%.°-
come out. Mr. Pearson’ said somewhat ‘ruefully, *: be Sy make a nickel with Khrushchev on this one.! "he guve the" ispression that Chairman Ehrushchey' attitude was one of - comlete skepticism as to the public version rather than being ons of holding concrete ideas as to exactly what ee "On the evening of 25 May, Mr. and Mrs. Pearson, in discussing the Khrushchev talk, made another passing . reference to the fact that Chairmen and Mrs, Xhrushchev . are Convinced ‘that the public version of the affair is | not true and that nothing thay could say altered this beitef.* iow PANN ve awe 8 - Richard Heins Deputy Director for Plans. wenppancts. ccs Me John A, McCona Mr. MeGeorge Bunty Mr. Richard H. Davis E/CI-R&A Cc/SR OIG er yy 02 ar 12 1 0 yea ' SHGRETT cs copy ; HW 53199 DBocld:32105956 Page 11