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4-41 (Rev. 622-61) © @ - " ; Tolson ? Beimont Mohr Callahan - Conrad DECODED COPY Belek 5 Evans Malone Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter . . Tele. Room ‘ . ‘ Ingram C4 Radio Teletype Gandy PAGE THREE FROM SAC NEW YORK 15073) KHRUSHCHEV REMARKED, "WELL, TODAY WAS QUITE DIFFERENT. | STARTED OFF FROM A POSITION OF STRENGTH BY RAISING MY VOICE AND MAKING DEMANDS, KENNEDY COUNTERED ME AND ALSO RAISED HiS VOICE. 1 SAID TO MYSELF, HO HO, WHAT HAVE WE HERE. |! TOOK NOTICE, CLEVER, TOUGH, SAGAGIOUS. WHAT CONVINCED ME OF THIS WAS THE FOLLOWING: ‘WHEN | TOLD HIfl (KENNEDY) THAT WE WERE GOING THROUGH WITH THE SIGNING OF THE PEACE TREATY WITH EAST GERMANY, KENNEDY SAID 'IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS GOING TO BE A COLD WINTER,*.™ ACCORDING TO TIMOFEEV, ALEKSE | » AJUBEI, SON={N-LAW OF KHRUSHCHEYV, TOLD TIMOOFEEV THAT WHILE IN WASHINGTON SEVERAL WEEKS AGO HE AND ANOTHER RUSSIAN HAD A PRIVATE CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT KENNEDY, AJUBE! DESCRIBED KENNEDY AS A MOST INTELLIGENT MAN WHO IS SINCERE AND DESIROUS OF PEAGE BUT VARIOUS PRESSURES FROM OTHER DIRECTIONS, PARTICULARLY MELITARY AND REACTIONARY, PUT KENNEDY AND HIS ADMINISTRATION Y INTO THE POSITION THAT HE PRESENTLY FINDS HIMSELF IN. AJUBEI SAID THAT IF KENNEDY HAD STRONGER SUPPORT FROM THE PEACE AND © LIBERAL FORCES, HE WOULD BE IN A BETTER POSITION TO CARRY OUT HIS PERSONAL INCLINATION AND AS AN EXAMPLE HE WOULD HAVE ACTED OTHERWISE IN CUBA, TIMOFEEV FURTHER STATED THAT THE SOVIET JOURNALISTS WHO VISITED THE U. S, DURING JUNE CAME TO THE U. S. PRINCIPALLY TO "SIZE UP" KENNEDY AND HiS ADMINISTRATION. THEY REACHED THE FOLLOWING CONCLUSION: KENMEDY AS PRESIDENT 1S INTELLIGENT AND SMART AND HAS PUT HIMSELF IN AN INDEPENDENT POSITION BY APPOINTING MEN OF DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS AROUND HIM. THE ONE BAD INFLUENCE, SINGLED OUT BY THE JOURNALIST, WAS DEAN ACHESON, WHOM THEY NESCRIBED AS DANGEROUS REING PREJUDICED AND DOGMATIC AND " THINKING IN THE PAST." {TEM THREE-MOMENTOUS D ONS BE MADE AT THE 22ND CONGRESS-O PGiu WILL BE HELD OCTOGER 17, 1961, SAID DATE HOWEVER BEING NOT YET DISCLOSED TO ANYBODY EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE ARRANGING THE SAID CONGRESS. THE INFORMATION REGARDING THE SAID DECISIONS WAS OBTAINED BY INFORMANT FROM TIMUR TIMOFEEV WHO NAMED THE FOLLOWING AS THE SOURCES OF HIS INFORMATION REGARDING THIS MATTER: PAVLO A. SATYUKOV, EDITOR OF "PRAVDA;" LEONID F. ILYICHEV, MEMBER OF If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be di: i i it i. e disseminated i ‘ paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau’s cryptographic systems. ated outside the Burean, it és suggested that (6 be suitably