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[28]176-10037-10120 | 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
[30]JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
[31]IDENTIFICATION FORM
[32]NARA
[33]176-10037-10120
[34]National Security Files: Robert W. Komer
[36]CIA Information Telegram
[37]12/00/1963
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[40]9/10/2000
[42]National Security Files, Box 430: Kennedy, Reactions to Death
[44]Miscellaneous, 11/22/63-6/18/64. Box 5
[46]4 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY | re 4h
[48]This material contains information affecting the National Betense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Lows, Title 18, U.S.C Secs.
[50]and 794, the transmission or tevelation of which in any manner to an ynauthoriued person is orehibited by taw
[52]SECRET
[54](When Filled In)
[56]my
[58]“BELK REPORT NO. TDCS"3/566, 658
[59]_BRUBECK
[61]SUBJECT COMMENTS OF YUGOSLAV. AND BLOC DIPLOMATSASS. - DATE DISTR,
[63]Country soviet aroc / —_
[65]6 PecRHeEs ae
[67]ON THE PROBABLE EFFECT OF KENNEDY ase lf
[68]SINATION ON -EAST=WEST RELATIONS — Duna ! PRECEDENCE , omy
[69]. = ; SEBEL, a
[70]DATEOF 2529 -novemeer 1963. FCRREST Adererenc: oi,
[71]INFO. —JOHNSON ea
[72]PLACE & GREECE, aTHENS (28 Novem 2 DECEM 2 veckibER'1963)
[73]DATE ACO.
[74]APPRAISAL 2 (THAT STATEMENTS ARE ACCURATEL teers) FIELD REPORTNO. EKA ae
[76]sis UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS*AREIDEEINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE,
[78]THI
[79]ea =
[80]PELIERG BLOC DIPLOMATS IN ATHENS,
[82]SOURCE A GREEK POLITICAL oBseRveR (8) wiTH-©
[83]FROM THE DIPLOMATS MENTIONED acvow.- SMITH, WM. Y.
[85]FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF (PORTION GARBLED-BE ING SERVICED)” BEING TAKEN BY SOVBLOC
[86]AND YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATS IN. GREEK CIRCLES:
[87]1, ON 25 NOVEMBER 63, YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR TO GREECE PEKO
[88]_ DAPCEVIC EXPRESSED HOPE THAT ASSASSINATION .OF KENNEDY WOULD NOT
[89]CHANGE. THE INTERNATIONAL ATMOSPHERE, ADDING ‘THAT HE 1S CERTAIN
[90]SOVIET. UNION, IS WELL DISPOSED TO CONTINUE FRIENDLY CONTACTS WITH
[91]WEST. DAPCEVIC SAID THERE HAS BEEN "A GREAT PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGE"
[92]ON PART OF SOVIET PEOPLE IN PAST FEW YEARS FROM EARLIER ATTITUDE
[94]THAT ALL AMERICANS AND PARTICULARLY AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ARE WAR
[96]MONGERS TO CURRENT THINKING THAT AMERICANS, - LIKE SOVIETS,
[98]" GROUP I
[100]downgrading ond
[101]declarficanon
[103]CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
[105]NO FOREIGN DISSE
[107]SECRET
[111]| FORM 1K OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS.
[113]DEC - 6 1988 -
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[118]SESRET NO FOREIGN BISSEM, 153/566 658.
[120]REALLY WANT PEACE, ZENITH OF THIS CHANGE. CAME WHEN-UNITED STATES
[122]ANNOUNCED IT. WAS WILLING ‘TO SELL WHEAT.T0- SOVIET UNION, ACCORDING
[123]“TO DAPCEVIC, THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, MADE “TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON ‘SOVIET
[124]PEOPLE, AND THEIR FEELING.1S NOW SO FAVORABLE TOWARD AMERICANS
[126]THAT EVEN IF SOV{ET LEADERSHIP WANTED TO REVERSE THIS FEELING,
[128]IT COULD NOT EASILY, DO SO.
[130]ON 26 NOVEMBER, CZECH FIRST. SECRETARY. VAKLAV SVESTKA
[132]STATED THAT desea EMBASSY." IN “ATHENS ‘HAD ‘NOT YET RECEIVED ‘REACTION
[133]OF PRAGUE TO “THE ASSASSINATION, BUT FEELING OF, CZECH EMBASSY
[135]PEOPLE IN ATHENS WAS. THAT US POLICY WOULD NOT CHANGE, MATERIALLY.
[137]SVESTKA. EXPRESSED CONCERN ‘THAT ASSASSINATION WILL HAVE DELAYING.
[138]~ ACTION ON IMPROVED. EAST-WEST RELATIONS: -. UNDER KENNEDY. THINGS
[140]WERE MOVING QUICKLY TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING, AND CHANGE OF PRESIDENT
[141]“NOW WILL OF. NECESSITY SLOW DOWN ‘THE COURSE OF EVENTS BECAUSE
[143]{PERSONAL -FACTOR™: 1S: NOW MISSING. KENNEDY HAD DEVELOPED CONTACTS
[144]WET SOVIET LEADERSHIP AND ACHIEVED ACCEPTANCE OF. SOVBLOC {PORTION
[145]GARBLED “POPULATIONS AS.-PEACE ‘LOVING MAN JOHNSON HAS :TO ESTABLISH
[147]THIS: FOR HIMSELF, NOW, AND IT WILL. TAKE SOME TIME. _
[149]3. ON 29 NOVEMBER, SOVIET FIRST: SECRETARY VITALIY, NOVIKOY
[150]- STATED’ THAT SOWfETS DO.NOT EXPECT IMMEDIATE CHANGE IN US FOREIGN
[151].POL|CY BECAUSE WITH ONLY ONE YEAR BEFORE ELECTIONS JOHNSON: AS.
[152]NON-ELECTED PRESIDENT 18 NOT LIKELY TO; jCHANGE. BASIC KENNEDY
[154]- CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
[156]NO. FOREIGN DISSEM
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[160][ SECRET NO Fonte DSsey poeesoee
[162]POLICIES, SOVIETS ARE ANXIOUS, HOWEVER. ‘OVER FUTURE EAST-WEST
[163]RELATIONS, ASSASSINATION CLEARLY, SHOWS RADICAL. RIGHT-WING ELEMENTS
[164]ARE STRONG, HAVE SUPPORTERS IN LOCAL POLICE AND POLITICAL. CIRCLES
[165]AND ARE WILLING TO FIGHT: FOR THEIR IDEALS, IT ALSO REVEALS;
[166]~-NOVIKOV SAID, STRENGTH OF REACTION IW. WWERICA’TO KENNEDY. POLICIES
[167]SOVIET PEOPLE FEAR THAT RIGHT-WING WHEL BE DOMI NANT.
[168]Ay ON. 29 NOVEMBER, RUMANIAN AMBASSADOR MIRCEA: BALANESCU SAID
[169]‘a was, CERTAIN “THERE WOULD BE NO CHANGE (N-BLOC POLICY VISeA=VIS
[170]WEST AND ANY INCREASE IN. TENS/ON WOULD. BE, RESULT OF CHANGED
[171]ANERICAN POLICY. |
[172]5. FIELD. DISSEM, STATE ARMY WAVY AIR’ EUCOM GINCNELM CINCSOUTH
[173](PERSONAL).
[174]6. HEADQUARTERS COMMENT? MISSING PORTIONS WILL BE DISSEMINATED ONLY iF
[176]THEY MATERIALLY AFFECT THE SENSE OF THIS REPORT.
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