31 Adhn SS h o Control Roc d MAY 2h 1961 09 11 37 AM FROM MOSCOII TO Secretary Of State EYES N0 2898 MAY 2h PM PRIORITY EYES ONLY SECRETARY FOLLOWING ARE MINOR AND SUPPLEMENTAL ITEMS IN MY CONVERSATION WITH KHRUSHCHEV LAST NIGHT MENTIONED WE HAD PRESSED HIM FOR RELEASE FLIERS HE HAD DELIBERATELY NOT DONE SO UNTIL AFTER ELECTION AS EARLIER RELEASE WOULD HAVE BEEN EXPLOITED BY NIXON AND IN HIS OPINION MIGHT HAVE CHANGED OUTCOME SAID FRANKLY DID NOT LIKE NIXON AND THOUGHT PRESIDENT KENNEDY MUCH HIGHER CALIBRE SAID LODGE HAD TOLD HIM RELATIONS WOULD BE EVEN BETTER UNDER NIXON THAN UNDER EISENHOWER MENTIONED LAOS ONLY IN PASSING STATING HOPE WE WOULD BE ABLE REACH AGREEMENT NO MENTION OF CONGO SAID IF VIENNA WENT WELL AND RELATIONS IMPROVED HOPED WOULD BE POSSIBLE INVITE KENNEDY VISIT SOVIET UNION NEXT YEAR THOUGH CLEARLY ATMOSPHERE NOT RIGHT FOR INVITATION THIS YEAR POINTED OUT THEY HAD ABOLISHED FOREIGN BASES AND SETTLED AUSTRIAN PROBLEM THEY VERY SATISFIED AUSTRIAN SOLUTION HE MENTIONED HE HAD TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY THROUGHOUT AUSTRIA IN 19% INCOGNITO IN GENERALS UNIFORM DISCUSSING DIVISION OF GERMANY MENTIONED HIS BROTHER HAD SUPPORTED WHITES IN SOVIET CIVIL WAR AND I GATHERED HAD BEEN KILLED AT THAT TIME HE REFERRED TO GRIEF THIS DIVISION HAD BROUGHT HIS MOTHER REPRODUCTION FROM THIS COPY IS PROHIBITED UNLESS EYES 2- 2898 MAY 24 PM FROM MOSCCM HE REFERRED HIS CONVERSATION WITH LIPPMANN WHOM HE CHARACTERIZED AS WISE AND INTELLIGENT MAN AND SAID HE READ HIM REGULARLY SAID HE HAD AUTHORIZED PUBLICATION SEVERAL LIPPMANN COLUMNS TO SHOW NOT ALL AMERICANS HELD SAME OPINIONS DISCUSSING TACTICAL ARMS HE SAID US RICH COUNTRY AND COULD BOTH THESE AND STRATEGIC WEAPONS WHEREAS SOVIET UNION AT PRESENT TIME COULD NOT AFFORD BOTH REFERRED TO GOOD WEATHER IN UKRAINE AND SAID THEY EXPECTED BUMPER CROP ONE REASON HIS GOING BY TRAIN WAS SEE FIELDS AT CLOSE RANGE ALTHOUGH IN NOVOSIBIRSK HE SAID DOCTOR HAD STRICTLY FORBIDDEN ANY HARD LIQUOR LAST NIGHT HE TOOK 5 OR 6 BRANDIES TROYANOVSKY EXPECTS ATTEND VIENNA MEETING IN DISCUSSING MY IDEA FOR HANDLING GERMAN PROBLEM BY DEFERRING SETTLEMENT FOR GIVEN NUMBER YEARS POINTED OUT THIS WOULD GREATLY REDUCE REFUGEE PROBLEMS AS EAST GEMANS WOULD KNOW NO CRISIS IMMANENT I SAID I DID NOT THINK EITHER WE OR WEST GERMANS WANTED REFUGEES TO LEAVE LATER ON IN DISCUSSING HIS INTENTION GIVE CONTROL ACCESS TO EAST GERMANS I POINTED OUT THIS COULD BUILD UP DANGEROUS PRESSURES INSIDE EAST GERMANY HE THEN REVERTED TO MY REMARK THAT WE HAD NOT WANTED REFUGEES TO LEAVE AND SAID THIS WOULD STOP THEM MENTIONED FACT PRESIDENT YOUNGER THAN HIS SON WOULD HAVE BEEN HAD HE LIVED BUT SAID PRESIDENT OBVIOUSLY ABLE MAN AND REPRESENTED US HE EXPRESSED ADMIRATION FOR BRITISH EXHIBIT SAYING THEY HAD DISPLAYED INDUSTRIAL GOODS WHICH WE SHOULD HAVE DONE SAID NIXON HAD THOUGHT THAT BY SHOWING OUR WAY OF LIFE AND MAKING STRONG SPEECH WE COULD UPSET SOVIET REGIME I DENIED THIS VIGOROUSLY d8 H1HOM HONIW 333H1 1H900H1 SNI133N SNIN03H1HOJ MBIA NI N0 13lA08 JO 133F808 N0 109 111N31NI EDVJ AW 108 NI 18Vd M001 EON 83H1I3N 09 SIH J0 HSIWEH H1IM 3H GNV 803 SVM AHIM NI d01S SIH OIVS N0 SHGIS H108 803 1398V1 38 0100M 03l7d38 I NHHM GNV AHM 3H NI GETTIM 3N0 1SHIJ 38 0100M SV 33V3d HOJ 38 01 GVH I HOJ 1N3383d g SVM I 1VH1 GNV 33V3d 803 1N3383d SVM 3H8 1H900H1 3H GIVS 3H HJIM AW JO EWOS 8313V 'ldHG NI NOILVIDOSSV ano NO aasve ana1lna AH NO 1N3WN03 ON aavw an nox 13w 10N GVH 3H GIVS NI ATNO 108 1V MOVED 3N0 M001 moosow woaa wd nz AVN 9692 H936 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu