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176-10037-10120] 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
AGENCY FILE NUMBER
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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TELEGRAM IN ORMA Tion REP" RT TELEGRAM
EENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
mhit Material contains iatormation allectiaq Iko Nalional Delonse 0i ino Un; Ied States ~iiaim Vhe moanioq 0i (ha Etpionbqa Lazs, Titlo 10_ U.s.C Sact
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GQuNtRY SQViET BLOc YUGOSI.AVIA BELK REPORT NO.
TDCS-37566,658
BRUBECK
SurJECT COMMENTS OF YUGOSLAV_ AND BLoc D/PLOMATsiSE DATE distr: 6 DECEMBERI 1963
ON THE PROBA BLE EFFECT OF KENNEDY AsBASSEMAN
S /NATIoN ON EAST-WEST RELATIONS DUNGAN PRECEDENCE
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DATE Of 25-29.NVEMBER 1963 FCRREST= 74578
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PLACE GREECE, ATHZNS NO VEMBER 2
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APPRAISAL 2 THAT STATEMENTS ARE ACCURATEL RPRQRTED) FIELD REPORT NO. EKA
4230
This Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION: SOURCE CRADINGSAARE JDEENIIVE: APPRAISAL OF ConTenT is Tentative
A SourCe A GREEK POlitiCAL OBSERVER (B) With_CoiFAE
TRIACWORG BLOC DIPLOMATS_ N A THENS,
FROM THE DIPLOMATS MENT IONED
BELOW__SMITH, WM Y
FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF (PORTAON 'GARBLED-BE NG SERVICED) BEING TAKEN BY SOVBLOC
AND YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATS IN GREEK CIRCLES :
ON 25 NOVEMBER 63, YUGOSLA AMBASSADOR To GREECE PEKO
DAPCEVIC EXPRESSED HOPE THAT ASSASSINAT|on .Of KENNEDY WOULD NOT
CHANGE THE INTERNAT IONAL ATMOSPHERE . ADDING THAT HE IS CERTAIN
SOVIET. Union IS WELL DISPOSED To ConTInuE FRIENDLY CONTACTS with
WEST: DAPCEVIC SA/D THERE HAS BEEN "A GREAT PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGE"
ON PART OF SOVIET PEOPLE in PAST FEW YEARS FROM EARL ER ATT TUDE
THAT' ALL AMERICANS AND PARTICULARLY AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ARE WAR
MONGERS To CURRENT TH NK NG THAT AMERI CANS ,. LIKE SOVI ETS ,
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REALLY WANT PEACE _ ZENI TH .OF This CHANCE CAME WHEN:UNi TED 'STATE;
ANNOUNCED it.WAS WILLING To SELL .WHEAT.TO SQVIET UNION_ AcCQRdiNQ
To DAPCEVIC , THIS AWNOUNCEMENT MADE TREMENDOUS MPACT On SovieT
PEOPLE ANd THEIR FEELING . IS Now so FAVORABLE TOWARD AMER ICANS
THAT EVEN: IF SovIET LEADERSHIP WANTED :TQ REVERSE .THIS FEEL
it COULD . NOT, EAS ILY; Do ,SO.
2 On 26 NOVEMBER , CZECH FIRST . SECRETARY VAKLAV SVESTKA
STATED THAT GZECH; EMBASSY: IN ATHENS 'HAD 'NOT YET RECEI VED REACTION
OF : PRAGUE To THE ASSASS NATIC but FEELING OF: CzECH EMBASSY
PEOPLE in ATHENS WAS THAT U S POLICY, WOULD Not 'CHANGE MATERIALLY,
SVESTKA_EXPRESSED . CONCERN:THAT ASSASSINATION .WilL HAVE DELAYING
Action ON . IMPROVED_ EAST-WEST RELATI ONS- UNDER `KENNEDY_ THINGS
WERE MQVING 'QUicKLY TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING, AND CHANGE OF PRES IDENT
Now .Will OF. NECESS|TY SLOw DOWN TTHE COURSE OF EVENTS BECAUSE
"PERSONAL -FaCTOR" IS: NOw MISS NG, KENNEDY HAD_DEVELOPED CONTACTS
with SOViET' LEADERSHIP AND ACHIEVED ACCEPTANCE OF. SOVBLOC PORTION
QARELED) POPULATIONS AS :PEACE LLOVING MAN; JOHNSON HAS: To.ESTABLISH
ThIS 'FOR HIMSELF. AND it WilL; TAKE SOME TIME
3 ON.29 'NOVEMBER, SOVIET FIRST ' SECRETARY VITALiY.Novikov
STATED THAT SOMJETS 'DO .NOT EXPECT IMEDIATE CHANGE In.US FOREigN
POL icy BECAUSE With ONLY ONE YEAR BEFORE ELECTIONS JoHiSON AS_
NON-ELECTED' PRES IDENT ` IS NOT LIKELY. TO CHANGE . BASIC KENNEDY
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POL IcIES , SOVIETS` ARE ANXIOUS , HOWEVER , : OVER FUTURE EAST-WEST
RELAT IONS , ASSASS INATion CLEARLY.SHOWS RADICAL RIGHT-WING ELEMENTS
ARE STRONG , HAVE SUPPORTERS in.LOCAL' POLICE AND POL ITICAL. CIRCLES
AND ARE WilliNG. To 'FIGHT FOR ' THEIR IDEALS, iT ALSO REVEALS ;
NovIkov SAID, ` STRENGTH OF REACTION IN.AMERICA ' To KENNEDY POLIcIES
SOVIET PEOPLE FEAR THAT RigHT-WING ,WILL BE DOI NANT _
~JN.29 NOVEMBER , RUMANIAN :AMBASSADOR MIRCEA: BALANESCU SAd
HE WAS CERTAIN THERE WOULD BE NO CHANGE in :BLOC POLICY: VIS-A-VIS
WEST' AND. ANY INCREASE iN, TENS ON 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 DISSEM NATED ONL Y i F
They MATERIALL Y AFFECT THE SENSE 0F ThIS REPORT _
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