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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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ACTION: CE/R/IO (479) INFO: C/ORMS, CEDORECORD, LIMITO, MDSX, ODPD, FILE,

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SECRET 191610Z NOV 93 STAFF

CITE MOSCOW 62359

TO: PRIORITY DIRECTOR INFO ST PETERSBURG.

FOR: LIMIT CE/R/IO INFO C/CE/R, DC/CE

SLUGS: WNINTEL GTDANCER NOHAYWIRE

SUBJECT: 11 NOVEMBER 1993 MEETING WITH THE. SVRR

REF: A. MOSCOW 62226

93 4516923

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MOSCOW 62260

93 4536763

C. MOSCOW 62261 93 4536806

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1. ACTION REQUESTED:

SEE PARAS FOUR AND FIVE.

SEPARATE

CABLE TRAFFIC CONTAINING SPECIFIC REQUESTS FOR ACTION WILL BE

FORWARDED TO APPROPRIATE HOS ELEMENTS.

2. ON THE MORNING OF 11 NOVEMBER 1993, LEONID

( (RYABCHENYA)) , DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE FOREIGN LIAISON

DEPARTMENT, RUSSIAN FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (SVRR)

TELEPHONED TO ARRANGE AN "URGENT" MEETING WITH COS.

THE

MEETING TOOK PLACE AT 1600 HOURS AT KOLPACHNIY PEREULOK.

REFS

CONTAIN STATION'S TRANSLATIONS OF THE ITEMS RYABCHENYA PASSED

DURING THE MEETING (TEXT OF A LETTER TO THE DCI FROM PRIMAKOV

CONTAINING HIS THOUGHTS ON THE MIDDLE EAST AND. THE CURRENT

PEACE PROCESS; A PAPER ON AID TO THE BOSNIAN MUSLIMS; AND A

PAPER ON THE SITUATION IN SOMALIA, RESPECTIVELY.)

3.

RYABCHENYA ALSO RAISED THE NAME OLEG ( (NECHIPORENKO)),

RETIRED SENIOR KGB OFFICIAL.

AS WE KNOW FROM PRESS ACCOUNTS,

NECHIPORENKO'S BOOK, "PASSPORT TO ASSASSINATION" WHICH PROVIDES

*NECHIPORENKO'S ACCOUNT OF<LEE HARVEY OSWALD'S>INVOLVEMENT IN

THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY IS SCHEDULED TO BE

PUBLISHED IN MID-NOVEMBER: RYABCHENYA SAID THAT NECHIPORENKO

IS PLANNING TO TRAVEL TO THE U.S. ON BOOK PROMOTION TOUR.

RYABCHENYA STATED THAT HE WAS BRINGING THE SUBJECT UP IN ORDER

TO PUT ON RECORD THAT THE SVRR HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE BOOK,

ITS CONTENTS, OR NECHIPORENKO'S TRAVEL.

RYABCHENYA WAS ADAMANT

THAT THE ENDEAVOR WAS "100 PERCENT PERSONAL."

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4.

NEXT RYABCHENYA INQUIRED WHETHER ANY DECISIONS HAD BEEN

MADE WITH REGARD TO THE SCHEDULING OF THE NEXT EXCHANGE ON

YUGOSLAVIA. HE RECALLED THE NEXT ROUND OF DISCUSSIONS WERE

TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE IN DECEMBER 1993 IN

WASHINGTON.

REQUEST HQS ELEMENTS INVOLVED ADVISE. INTENTIONS

FOR THE SCHEDULING OF THE NEXT EXCHANGE.

5.

RYABCHENYA ALSO INQUIRED ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE

UNCLASSIFIED PAPER PRESENTING THE FINDINGS OF THE U.S:

MENPAL TASK

SCIENTISTS INVOLVED IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE EFFORT

SCHEDULED TO BE PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER 1993. HE REMINDED COS OF

OUR PROMISE TO PROVIDE A COPY (A PROMISE MADE FIRST DURING THE

VISIT OF THE ETF TEAM IN JULY AND LATER REPEATED BY THE DCI

DURING HIS 9 AUGUST MEETING WITH SVRR LEADERSHIP) • RYABCHENYA

EXPLAINED THAT THE SVRR HAS HELD SOME MEETINGS WITH RUSSIAN

SCIENTISTS AND IS WORKING ON A PROPOSAL FOR AN EXCHANGE OF

VIEWS BETWEEN U.S. AND RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS ON THIS SUBJECT.

AFTER THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE PAPER, THE SVRR

WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD AND SCHEDULE AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS BETWEEN

U.S. AND RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS.

(AN EVENT MOTIVATING THE SVRR'S

DESIRE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS INITIATIVE IS, OF COURSE, THE

GORE / CHERNOMYRDIN MEETINGS SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE IN MOSCOW IN

THE MIDDLE OF NEXT MONTH.) REQUEST HQS PROVIDE A COPY OF THE

UNCLASSIFIED PAPER BY THE MOST EXPEDITIONS MEANS POSSIBLE.

LENGTH PERMITTING, SUGGEST USE OF SECURE FAX TO THE STATION.

5.

FILE:

END OF MESSAGE

74A- 002-001. DECL OADR DRV LIA 1-87.

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