476-10037-10120 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10037-10120 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files: Robert W. Komer AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO: TITLE : CIA Information Telegram DATE : 12/00/1963 PAGES : 3 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 430: Kennedy, Reactions to Death Miscellaneous, 11/22/63-6/18/64. Box 5
- ¢ CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY . Co. i This material contains information affecting fhe National Defonse of the United States within the moaning af the Espronaqge Loews, Tithe 18, U.$.C Secs. 799 end 794, the fransmission or revelation of which in any manner to an yunauthorzed ‘persion is orahibited by faw SECRET (When Filled In} Gounrry soviet sioc / YUGOSLAVIA RELK . REPORTNO. TDCS#3/506, 658 BRUBECK SUBJECT COMMENTS OF YUGOSLAV. AND BLOC DIPLOMATEASE. - DATE DISTR. 6 pecemBery 1963 ON THE PROBABLE EFFECT OF KENNEDY aSSAS-GEMAN AA SINATION ON-EAST@WEST RELATIONS — DUNGAN recency, oy ye fae ORS hw ROG DATEOR 2529 -Novemaer 1963. Shear MD INFO. -_ JOHNSON PLACE & GREECE, ATHENS (28 Novem 2 ee Bey DATE ACO. APPRAISAL 2 (THAT STATEMENTS ARE ACCURATED RESORTED Ebe, FIELD REPORT NO. THIS is UNEVALUATED InroRMATION, SOURCE GRADING! ae en) fio APPRAISAL OF CONTENT — TENTATIVE, SOURCE 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 p ADDING THAT HE 1S 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 1N PAST FEW YEARS FROM EARLIER ATTITUDE THAT ALL AMERICANS AND PARTICULARLY AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ARE WAR MONGERS TO CURRENT THINKING THAT AMERICANS, “LIKE SOVIETS, * GRour | Encluded fram autqmane dowagrading ond declassfirangr _ CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NO FOREIGN DISSEM [ate [vcs [secoer] wsa [wie [ ato usta] ocr [one T oce [one [o '[ oo [ex SECRET favare7iwn [ova [amny7acsi] wavy | q13- 10-63 DEC - 6 1948 . | ¥ORM 11{ — OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS.
CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS JSESRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM REALLY WANT PEACE, ZENITH OF THIS CHANGE CAME WHEN-UNITED STATES ANNOUNCED [TWAS WILLING TO SELL WHEAT To SOVIET UNION, © ACCORDING TO DAPCEVIC, THIS ARNOUNCEMENT. MADE “TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON ‘SOVIET | PEOPLE AND THEIR FEELING.1S NOW SO FAVORABLE TOWARD AMERICANS THAT EVEN.IF SOV/ET LEADERSHIP WANTED | TO REVERSE THIS FEELING, IT COULD NOT EASILY, DO 80, 2, "ON 26 NOVEMBER, CZECH FIRST. SECRETARY. VAKLAV SVESTKA STATED THAT YECH 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": 1S°NOW MISSING. KENNEDY HAD)-DEVELOPED CONTACTS "WITH SOVIET’ LEADERSHIP. AND ACHIEVED ACCEPTANCE OF SOvBLOC. {PORTION GARBILED )*POPULATI ONS AS. PEACE “LOVING MAN3 JOHNSON HAS. TO ESTABLISH THIS) FOR HIMSELF NOW, AND IT WILL. TAKE SOME TIME, oo. 3. ON 29 NOVEMBER, SOVIET FIRST: SECRETARY VITALLY, NOVIKOV STATED: THAT SOWIETS DO.NOT EXPECT IMMEDIATE CHANGE IN.US FOREIGN POLICY BECAUSE WITH ONLY ONE YEAR BEFORE ELECTIONS JOHNSON AS NON-ELECTED! PRESIDENT 1S NOT LIKELY. TO CHANGE. BASIC KENNEDY CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS _NO FOREIGN DISSEM
CLASSIFICATION - = ~ DISSEMINATION CONTROLS . : SECRET | . | | NO FOREIGN issey . 10C$-3/566, 658 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 IW. AWERICA’TO KENNEDY. POLIGIES SOVIET PEOPLE FEAR THAT RIGHT “WING WILL BE DOMINANT. a AL “0N.29 NOVEMBER, RUMANJ AN : ‘AMBASSADOR MIRCEA: BALANESCU SAID Ve was CERTAIN ‘THERE WOULD BE NO CHANGE (N BLOC POLICY VISeA=VIS WEST AND. ANY INCREASE IN TENSION WOULD: BE. RESULT OF CHANGED AMERICAN POLICY, 5: [Lo pissem STATE ARMY WAVY AIR EUCOM CINCNELM CINCSOUTH (PERSONAL). 6. HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: MISSING PORTIONS Wit BE DISSEMINATED ONLY iF THEY MATERIALLY AFFECT THE SENSE OF THIS REPORT. Aa@ END OF MESSAGE 0 DISSEMINATION CONTROLS | Q FOREIGN DISSE