A SOVIET COINCIDENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000900050022-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: October 26, 1960
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR GJNI:RAL CHARLES P. CABELL
From: Brig Gen Edward 0. Lansdale
Subject: A Soviet Coincidence
Colonel Prouty on our staff has called my attention to press at:arit
originating from TASS announcing the death of two top Soviet milit.ry.
He saw the story in today's New York Herald Tribune. The T
release announced that Soviet Rocket Forces Commander. Marsh:
Mitrofan 1. Nedexlin was killed in a recent aircraft accident. It ale.
noted the death of Colonel General Nikolai 0. Pavlovski "while Ai iillirm
his official duty. "
Since Khrushchev stayed in New York for weeks before and attar
the proCIaimed "day the world will long remember, " 27 Septtbet
1960 - a'day which still has not been explained adequately - it is posit
that there might be more than coincidence between the un-named #..3rlc
shaking event and the "accidental" death of two top Soviet nulitary. I
thought you might like to have this checked to see if there were am: leac-a
to serious problems inside the Soviet Union that were being reeoivE>d ii
this fashion rather than accepting the deaths as mere accidents.
(EXECUTE REC3Tf FIE
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GF:nexal Cabell noted original of attached and forwarded
to C/SR with note: "You Probably are alread
working on this for its P. P. value. y
quite useful. It might be
/s/ CPC 10/28
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