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° sent: © Re: Soviet Appraisal of re President John F. Kennedy According to Timofeev, AlekseieAjubei, son-in-law of Premier Nikita Khrushchev, told Timofeev that while in Washington several weeks ago, he and another Russian had a ptivate conference with President Kennedy. Ajubei described President Kennedy as a most intelligent man, who is sincere and @sirous of peace, but that various pressures from other directions, particularly military and reactionary forces, put President Kennedy and his administration into the position that he presently finds himself in. Ajubei said that if President Kennedy had stronger support from the peace and liberal forces, he would be in a better position to carry out his personal inclinations, and, as an example, he would have acted otherwise in Cuba. Timofeev further stated that the Soviet journalists who visited the United States during the month of June, 1961, went to the United States principally to "size up" President Kennedy and his administration. They reached the-following conclusions: Kennedy, as president, is 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 journalists, was Dean Acheson, whom they described as dangerous and being prejudiced and dogmatic and "thinking in the past."