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    "title": "USSR: Vienna meeting: Background documents, 1953-1961: General",
    "description": "This file contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Soviet Union. Materials in this file include newspaper articles, background papers on nuclear science and possible cooperative space exploration projects, a summary of a telephone conversation between President Kennedy and French President General Charles de Gaulle, an itinerary for President Kennedy's trip to Vienna, Austria, and copies of a joint statement issued by the President and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev concerning nuclear weapons, disarmament, and Germany following discussions in Vienna. The majority of this file consists of telegrams and memoranda to President Kennedy from Cabinet members and advisors regarding suggested strategies for discussing subjects such as nuclear weapons, disarmament, Berlin, and Laos with Premier Khrushchev.",
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        "Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971",
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    "ocrText": "6 b\nREDRAFT\nApril 13, 1961\nDRAFT PROPOSALS FOR US-USSR SPACE COOPERATION\nGENERAL OBJECTIVES\nThe general objectives of scientific cooperation between\nthe United States and the Soviet Union are to demonstrate the\npossibility of cooperative enterprise between the U.S. and the\nUSSR in fields of wide interest, to achieve the practical\nadvantages of sharing the work and cost on major projects, and\nto establish early cooperation in fields (e.g. meteorological\nactivities that might eventually lead to weather control or\nmanned exploration of the moon) in which unchecked competition\nmay ultimately be dangerous as well as wasteful.\nGUIDELINES\nThe proposals herein seek to (a) maximize acceptability\nby the USSR, and (b) minimize the potential for misundexstand\ning and obstruction which must be recognized to exist in any\njoint program with the Soviet Union. The proposals therefore\nhave, in general, the following character:\n(1) Valid scientific objectives.\n(2) Comparable contributions by the U.S. and USSR.\n(3) Technical and economic feasibility for the U.S.\n(4) Minimal interference with on-going U.S. programs.\n(5) Minimal grounds for Soviet suspicions of U.S.\nmotives (access, surveillance, etc.)\n(6) Opportunities for third-nation participation at\nappropriate time.\nThe proposals fall into three categories:\n(a) The employment of existing or easily attainable\nground facilities for exchange of information\nand services in support of orbiting experiments.\nDECLASSIFIED\narchivet of U.S.\nE.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and UI (E)\nNo. c\n672-7\nBy, MAD\nNARS, Date 7/30/76\nWH S&T Cont.\nNLK-76307"
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