FULBRIGHT SEES GAIN IN SOVIET TIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920102-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 102
• Publication Date: January 15, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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I Fulbi.?ight
Sees Gam ,in
Soviet, Ties
Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D-
Ark.) said after a briefing by
a top State Department Rus-
sian expert yesterday that
U.S.-Soviet relations are con-
tinuing to show "a gradual
improvement."
Fulbright, Chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, said that Premier
Alexei Kosygin and Cornmu-
nist Party leader Leonid
Brezhnev were associates of
ousted Premier Khrushchev
and that their rise to power
reflected "no major change
in Soviet policy."
Fuibright, talking with re-
porters after the Committee
questioned Ambassador - at -
Large Llewellyn Thompson, a
former Ambassador to Mos?
cow, emphasized he was ex-
pressing his own personal
views on the basis of the
briefing.
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