KENNEDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400350024-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: June 2, 1961
• Content Type: PREL

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--PRESIDENT. TODAY DIFFERENCES ALONG THE COMMU-
NIST POWERS SOME DAY MAY BURST INTO FULL-FLEDGED RIVALRIES,
HE SAID THERE MICHT BE TROUBLE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN BECAUSE OF
THE "SOMEWHAT PECULIAR" RELATICN EXISTING IN A SITUATION WHERE ALBANIA
SIDES WITH COMMUNIST CHINA IN ITS IDEOLOGICAL DISPUTES WITH THE SOVIET
UNION
THIS WAS ONE REASON; KENNEDY TOLD': n ' 1' ,~. AT THE CrAILLOT
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AID UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES OF AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA. ALL MUST
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PALACE, WHY HE BELIEVED THE TIDE WAS RUNNING IN FAVOR OF THE FREE WORLD
INSTEAD OF THE COMMUNISTS.
KENNEDY SAID THE WEST HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING HOW FAR TENSION IN TEE
SINO-SOVIET BLOC WOULD LEAD SUIT INDICATED ISIS BELIEF IT COULD LEAD TO
MORE OPEN RIVALRIES AND DIr FERE:CES.
KENNEDY SAID HE WAS ENTERING, HIS 'TALKS TOMORROW IN VIEN: A' WITH
SOVIET PREMIER NIKITA K'rXRUSHCHEV WITH A "LOT MORE CONFIDENCE" AFTER
TWO AND A HALF DAYS OF INTIMATE DISCUSSION HERE WITH FRENCH PRESIDENT
CHARLES DE CAULLE*
RE SAID HE AND DE GAULLE WERE. 41NITED XN' THEIR BELIEF THAT COMif;UNIST
"FORCE CR THREAT OF FORCE" SEOUL,i) NOT I;?E PERMITTED TC. SHOVE THE WESTERN
ALLIES OUT OF BERLIN. KENNEDY It i SP.;ECI TO THE JOURNALISTS FOLLOWED BY
A F-AFIID FIRE ~' "`` ;*>^ai u ' ? IDt
--THE . "PRIME PURPOSE" OF HIS MEETING WITH K'HRUSIHCHHHEV- IS TO "MAKE
HIM UNVD)ERSTAE\'D" AS COMPLETELY AS POSSIBLE THE AMERICAN .VIEWPOINT.
--THE DEADLOCKS I N THE NU!CLE,AR TEST 13AN -TALKS AND TIE' LAOS CRISIS
ARE TWO VITAL ISSUES HE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT WITH KIHRUSHCHEV. IF PROG-
RESS ON THESE TWO MATTERS CAN BE MALE DURING THE MEETING IN THE AUS-
TRIAN CAPITAL, THAT WOULD "MAKE THE TRIP WORTHW}TILE,"
--THE PERIL OD' THE FUTURE IS HIGHLIGHHTED. BY SOVIET AND AMERICAN
NUCLEAR POW 'R, THE "GREAT MASSES" OF THE CHINESE AND RUSSIAN ARMIES
AND THE INTRICATE COMMUNICATION LINES OF THE WORLD,
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SHARE. THE BURDENS "THAT FREE NATIONS MUST CARRY IN THESE DANGEROUS
TO HAVE OUR STATUTORY RIGHTS IN BERLIN CHANGED F3Y XOrICr. ?
TIMES."
.>..IIE WILL CONTINUE CLOSE CONSULTATIONS. WITH FRANCE OY ALL MAJOR
ISSUES. HIS MORE THAN,..EICHT HOURS Or TALKS HERE WITH DE GAULLE ARE
PROOF OF THIS.
HiE WAS UNABLE TO PROMISE UNITED STATES' NUCLEAR SECRETS TO
FRANCES ALTHOUGH THE MATTER IS BEING STUDIED, PARTICULARY CONGRESSIONAL
RESTRICTIONS,
--DE GAULLE HAS PROMISED FRANCE WILL' CONTRIBUTE MORE TO UNDER-
DEVELOPED COUNiRIESIAT THE ' CE AGENCY
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Fr,F"GItF HE ATTENDED THE PR ES: LUNCHEON, KENNEDY APPEARED BEFORE
NATO STAFF OFFICERS AND PLEDGE-r; TO STRENGTHEN AND MAINTAIN U.S. COM-
i;ITMENTS TO THE DEFENSE OF EUROPE.
HE CONFERRED FOR A FIFTI-I TI E TWITH DE GAULLE THIS MORL.11NG, THEN
AFTER THE LUNCHEON, HE RETURNED TO THE ELYSEE PALACE FOR A SIXTIH UN-
SCHEDULED MEETING WITH THE FRENCH LEADER TO BRING THEIR FORMAL TALKS
TO A CLOSE.
BEFORE HE LEFT THE CHAILLOT PALACE, HE HAD TOLD THE NEWSMEN I
"I THINK NEITHER GENERAL.DE GAULLE NOR I. WOULD FEEL IT APPROPRIATE
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