CABLE RE RELAXED ATTITUDE EXHIBITIED BY SOVIET AND OTHER ORBIT OFFICIALS CONCERNING CURRENT CUBAN CRISIS.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 10/27/1962
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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BSG 690 COUNTRY, USSR, CUBA

SUBJ: RELAXED ATTITUDE EXHIBITED BY SOVIET AND OTHER ORBIT

OFFICIALS CONCERNING CURRENT CUBAN CRISIS

• DOI: 25 OCTOBER 1962

PADA: ENVY, 26 OCZOBER 1962

APPR: 2 (THAT THE EVENTS

OCCURRED AS DESCRIBED)

SOURCE: SOVIET BLOC OFFICIAL (B)

1. AT A DINNER PARTY GIVEN ON THE EVENING OF 25 OCTOBER

BY A SOVIET OFFICIAI. ASSIGNED TO A UN SPECIALIZED AGENCY IN

GENEVA AND ATTENDED BY A NUMBER OF ORBIT OFFICIALS AND THEIR

WIVES, INCLUDING SOVIET MINISTER NIKOLAY I. MOLYAKOV, THE

USSE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE EUROPEAN OFFICE OF TEE

UNITED NATIONS AT CENEVA, THE ATMOSPHERE WAS RELAXED AND

ALMOST FESTIVE. MINISTER MOLYAKOV IN PARTICULAR SEEMED MUCH

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MORE INTERESID IN DISCUSSING HIS PERSONAL PLANS, INCLUDING

TH FURNISING OF HIS RESIDENCE, THAN IN CONFERRING WITH

TEL OTHER ORBIT OFFICIALS PRESENT ABOUT THE CUBAN CRISIS,

WELLS DONS OF TEE ORBIT OFFICIALS DEMONSTRATED UNUSUAL

CONCERS ABOUT THE SITUATION OR ATTEMPTED TO FOCUS DISCUSSION

ON POLITICAL MATTERS RATHER THAN ON MUSIC, FOOD AND DRINK.

Z. WHEN TRE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION HAS DISCUSSED,

IT WAS MOLYAROV WED SET FORTH THE MOST POSITIVE VIEWS.

HE CHARACTERIZED SOVIET PREMIER KHRUSHCHEV AS A "VERY WISE

MAN" WHO HND THE CURRENT CUBAN SITUATION WELL IN HAND.

MOLYAKOV ADDED THAT KHRUSICHEV IS ANARE THAT PRESIDENT

KENNEDY "IS MAD AND AN ADVENTURER" AND FULLY UNDERSTANDS

ZHAT SUCH A MAN MUST NOT BE PERMITTED "TO PULI. THIS STRINGS"

(SOURCE COMMENT& MEANING THAT PRESIDNET KENNEDY MUST NOT

BE ALLOWED TO RETAIN TUS INIATIVE OR TO CONTROL THE PACE

IN THE CURRENT INTEANATIONAL SITUATION). LIKEWISE

- KHRUSFICHSV UNDERSTANDS THAT THE SOCIALIST CAMP MOST NOT

"PLAY KENNEDY'S GAME" AND RESPOND TO AMERICAN ACTIONS IN

TEE MANNER DESIRED BY KENNEDY. MOLYAROV REMARKED THAT

LENIN HAD STATED THAT THE FIRST REVOLUTIONANY VIRTUE IS

PATIENCE.

3. IN COMMENTING FURTHER ON THE REASONS FOR CURRENT

U.S. ACTION RE CUBA MOLYAKOV STATED THAT KENNEDY HAD BEEN

MOTIVATED BY INTERNAL AMERICAN POLITICAL REASONS (THE

FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS) • HY A DISIRE TO INTIMIDATE THE LATIN

AMERICAN NATIONS, AND BY "PURE ADVENTURISM", MOLYAROV

ADDED THAT IE THE PRESENT TRENDS CONTINUED THEN THE CURRENT

SITUATION WOULD PROBABLY BE RESOLVED WITHOUT ARMED CONFLICT

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BUT THAT KENNEDY SHOULD BE CAREFUL. NOT "TO GO TOO FAR"

(SOURCE COMNENT: MOLYAKOV DID NOT ELABORATE ON THE

LATTER, PERASE).

4. AT ONE POINT IN THE CONVERSATION MOLYAKOV

REFERRED TO THE PRESENT CALLUP OF SOVIET ARNED FORCES

RESERVE PERSONNEL, STATING THAT THE RESERVES MUST BE

TOLD THAT IF THE SITUATION CONTINUED AS AT PRESENT, THEN

THEX WOULD NOT BE GOING BACK TO THEIR FAMILIES. (SOURCE"

CONVENT& THE LATTER STATEMENT APPEARED TO CONTRADICT

MOLYAKOV®S PREVIOUS STATEMENT - PER PARA 3 ABOVE - TO

THE EFFECT THAT THE CURRELT SITUATION WOULD NOT RESULT

IN ARMED CONFLICT. MOLYAKOV DRANK QUITE HEAVILY DURING

THE EVENING AND IT IS JUDGED THAT THIS LATTER STATEMENT

WAS MADE FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT AND DOES NOT REPRESENT EIS

CURRENT CONVICTION) •

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