KHRUSH GETS AN EXCUSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400080049-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: September 5, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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XhrtilsfiCtlev t>LOZr appears to tta- vertle i~tp-ly-, and eitChltln 4b1
seldom lead fo "A q
been given a racy talking point and Part of Khr'uy~d1 : fen,
the germ of an excuse to appear before what the cottnnyyplque p tk they" 6TO .1
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the UN General Assembly. Xiolatton of the 8oviei llrantie '
Jndging irons the preliminary tone . ably can be traced to; he-Aici "that?
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of the Soviet Union's
? note n1 protest about
the trine-minute U-2
fll ,ht.R over Sakhalin
Island, Khrushchev
seems to have worked
up almost as much
choler over this as he
was able to generate
when Francis Gary
Powers -utbled out (if
the sky near Sverd-
lovsk.
%reasntiable to expect Khrushchev not
only to show up but to come to UN
In a f15*L-shaking and maybe even shoe-
'banging mood. He almost certainly mill
ttwse this Incident as the irnprobabl(,
but still alarmingly noisy, reason to tell
the delegate., of the 104 UN countries a
lot of heady lies about the U. S. It i., a
fore ono, conclusion that he will use
the J-2,'LU&L , ag a ]winching I-ad to
fly into rages about. Berlin, mainte-
nance of U. S. military bases overseas,
rase of UN troops in the Congo.
Colonialism, and the "threat" against
Cuba.
He's it lucky burn to have an event
of this particular nature fall in his lap.
The first U-2 affair provided hint with
the lever with which to upset the Sum-
mit Conerence and to prove to his
cynical friend Mao Tse-tung and home-
groP^n detractors that he wasn't afraid
of insulting the President of the United
States. The second U-2 case pre..rn's to
him, on a silver tray, another ivense
to Now ills stack and appear less ludi-
crous while doing, so.
WHAT THIS WILL DO to the Keli -
nedy-Khrushcheiv meeting 'that was
Just beginning to take shape in the
minds of planners remain-. ;it he seen.
If Khrushchev is verbally truculent. hc-
sore the -()rid orgaviz.atIon he i rvsi-
atl
a
lorn
Sovl$ defenses on that fo
that hovers like a c" q over Japan <
could not shoot the plane out of the: ,
sky. This would be inclined to shake-t-.,-
the faith of Russians who were S014fl'q,
ly assured not so long ago that Soviet,,..
airspace was now puncture:.prOof-PrO .
tected by all sorts . of ground-to-&(,
rockets, air-to-air missiles that can.
"home in" on an enei iy, and super-
sontc planes. The U-2 is one of the
world's slowest Jets. And completely
defenseless. i
It will be some time before the' full.
story of latest U-2 Incident 13-known.,
But It is heartening to note that in
this Instance we did not make of our--
selveti the damned fools we reat,~}b1ed.
in the first hours$ rour spy, Powers,-
was -.9jaw,
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. I'owERS WAS A-ems(: ri1r d..a? the
. CIO for the bargain rate of. ~ . a..,'
about a power Cud-
who ?l> i .1l ~i