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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": "Foreign Service of the 25.\nUnited States of America\nINCOMING\nAMERICAN EMBASSY PARIS\nSS-10\nOFFICIAL USE ONLY\nACTION:\ndiassification\nContaol: 3403\nPOL\nINFO:\nReed: May 31, 1961\nAMB\n10:29 pm\nMIN\nADMIN\nFROM: BERLIN\nMINEC ON\nFIN\nNO:\n276, May 31, 7 pm\nUSISF\nH 1\nSENT DEPT 581 BONN 533 RPTD INFO LONDON 244 PARIS 276 MOSCOW 358\nSTOESSEL\nPRAGUE 9 VIENNA 8 POLAD USAREUR 189\nBHAPEL\nEUCOML\nParis for Embassy, USRO, Stoessel and Finn\nPOLR\nARMATT\nEast German propaganda media continuing give relatively optimistic\nNAVATT\ntreatment forthcoming Khrushchev-Kenned; Vienna meeting New York\nAIRATT\nHerald Tribune report re Allied contingency planning for Berlin\nCINCEUR\ndismissed by Neues Deutschland editorial May 31 as primarily West\nMAS\nGerman fabrication, Provocation, which was expected before\nMAAG\nVienna meeting of Khrushchev and Kennedy, has been quickly arranged\nEF\nby West German militarists, \" editorial said, adding that Bonn\nPF\npropagandists supplied Herald Tribune with report primarily to\ngive West German press opportunity to quote influential American\nnewspaper as source.\nACCTION:\nPOL\nRe actual existence Allied Western contingency planning, editorial\nTINFO:\nstated:\nOES\nECON\n\"Naturally whole story with its *Western alarm plan is fabric-\nDEF-4\nated blurf. We don't doubt that there are some candidates for\nPAA\nsuicide in West Germany; on other hand, ruling circles will take\ncounsel hundred times before they bring upon selves through\nmilitary provocation their own immediate physical destruction.\nEntire thing is provocation for sharpening political atmosphere\non eve of Vienna meeting peace-loving people in all countries\n10/\nwelcome forthcoming meeting of Khrushchev and Kennedy without\nillusions but also in expectation of definite progress toward\nsecuring of peace\n\"\nWest Berlin press treated Herald Tribune story on contingency\nplanning with reserve. Only Kurier and Spandauer Volksblatt\nplayed story prominently, using DPA and AP wire agency stories.\nTagesspiegel ran despatch from its correspondent Bonn, alleging\nFedRep Government circles believe French leaked story in order\nforce Kennedy toward \"hard\" line at Vienna, Editorially, several\npapers referred briefly to contingency planning story in columns\ndevoted to general question of forthcoming Vienna meeting, saw\n\"leak\" as means of serving advance notice on Khrushchev of firm-\nness Western determination maintain position in Berlin. Most\nOFFICIAL USE ONTY\n30% HOM F\nitea\nUNLESS"
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