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

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY : NARA

RECORD NUMBER : 176-10037-10120

RECORD SERIES : National Security Files: Robert W. Komer

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ORIGINATOR : CIA

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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

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SOVIET BLOC/ YUGOSIAVIA

ALEXANDER

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-BELK

REPORT NO. TDCS-3/566,658

- BRUBECK

SUBJECT

COMMENTS OF YUGOSLAV. AND BLOC DIPLOMATSISE

- DATE DISTR.

6 DECEMBER

ON THE PROBABLE EFFECT OF KENNEDY ASSÄSCEMAN

SINATION ON EAST-WEST RELATIONS

-DUNGAN

PRECEDENCE

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DATE OF

25-29 NOVÉMBER 1963.

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PLACE &

GREECE, ATHENS

(28 NOVEMBER,

2 DECEMBER 1963)

DATE ACO.

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEENBIVE: APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

A MA VATE NO ARE A CURE D

BRRORIED

FIELD REPORT NO.

EKA 4230

SOURCE

A GREEK POLITICAL OBSERVER (B) WITH-CONTAGE 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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IN 74578

PAQI

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 ARNOUNCEMENT. 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: VAKLAY SVESTKA

STATED THAT GECH 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

GARBLED) POPULATIONS AS: PEACE: LOVING MAN, JOHNSON HÁS: 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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TDCS-3/566,658

POLÍCIES, 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 POLIGIES

SOVIET PEOPLE FEAR THAT RIGHT-WING WILL BE DOMINANT.

4.

ON.29 NOVEMBER, RUMANIAN AMBASSADOR MIRCEA: BALANESCU SAID

HE WAS CERTAIN THERE WOULD BE NO CHANGE IN: BLOC POLICY VISA-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: MISSING PORTIONS WILL BE DISSEMINATED ONLY IF

THEY MATERIALLY AFFECT THE SENSE OF THIS REPORT.

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