MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD FROM L. K. WHITE

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• Publication Date: January 31, 1969
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31 January 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Morning Meeting of 31 January 1969
*DD/I reported that Colonel Abe Lincoln will be briefed this
morning He also noted that F. Benjamin Lincoln,
Jr. , the resident's former law partner and a recently designated
PFIAB member, is scheduled to be briefed on 3 or 4 February. The
Director asked that the DD/I and Tom Parrott conduct the briefing.
*Godfrey called attention to today's Washington Post article on
the 22 January attempted Kremlin assassination.
Godfrey reported that there was no classified material on the
Pueblo hearings due to the restricted sessions.
D/ONE reported that yesterday's USIB session on the Korea and
Panama Estimates went well and was completed in record time.
DD/S briefed on arrangements and details for Mr. Dulles' funeral.
The Director stated that no guidelines with respect to attendance at the
church services will be issued and that any inquiries from employees
should be reacted to by simply noting that attendance is left to each
individual. Executive Director reported that Mrs. Dulles does not
wish to designate any charities in lieu of flowers. It was noted that
the Baltimore graveside services will be for family only. The Director
asked that a member of the OLC staff be present at the church service
in order to identify congressmen. The Director complimented the DD/S
on the excellent handling of all necessary arrangements.
Carver noted that the Director will be receiving considerable
cable traffic from Saigon in response to the twenty-eight questions on
the Vietnam memorandum.
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Maury observed that he and will be briefing Senator 25X1
Stennis and staff member Braswell this morning.
In response to the Director's question, Maury reported that the
briefing of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy is scheduled for late
next week.
DDCI briefed on yesterday's visits with Senators Russell, Thur-
mond, and Hollings. While all three were interested in the Pueblo
incident, the DDCI reported that he had an opportunity to share with
Senator Russell all of the data contained in his memorandum to the
Director. Senator Russell will attempt to hold back any Congressional
initiatives for an investigation until the Navy has finished its review of
the Pueblo affair. In response to Senator Thurmond's question, the
DDCI provided a "Thank-God-we-have-him" assessment of the Director.
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The Director asked whether a folio is being prepared for Mrs.
Allen Dulles. DD/S reported that this action has been initiated and
that an appropriate folio is also being prepared for Eleanor Lansing
Dulles.
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 guised Armyofficer Is Describe:
Space Shot Failure
In Soviet Reported
By U. S. Observers
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (AP)
-Informed sources said today
that an unmanned, unannounced
Russian space launching had
failed so spectacularly that
the circumstances had become 1
known to the United States de-
spite Soviet secrecy.
To prevent the Russians from
knowing just how much the
West had learned about the ill-
fated space shot, the details
have been withheld, it was said.
Government space and military
officials decline to comment.
However, the second stage of
the launching vehicle is said to
have failed, and the spacecraft
burned up on re-entry into the
earth's atmosphere.
The most recent launching
announced by the Russians was
Cosmos 264. It was sent into
earth orbit Jan. 23 as one of
the long series of recoverable
observation satellites.
There has been more than
one unannounced Soviet launch-
ing since then, an informed
person said. The one that failed
was not a part of the Cosmos
series nor was it a large craft,
he added. "It was nothing like
our Saturn 5 launch vehicle,"' he said.
Nor is there anything yet to
substantiate. the suspicion in
some quarters that the Russians
may have been planning to
flight-test an unmanned space
nuclear propulsion system, he
said.
As Attempted Assassin in Kremlin
By Anatole Shub
Washington Post Foreign Service
MOSCOW, Jan. 30-A So-
viet army leiutenant from
Leningrad, dressed in a bor-
rowed police uniform, was re-
sponsible for the attempted
assassination inside the Krem-
lin gate last week, according
to usually reliable sources.
The assailant, identified as
Lt. Ilyin of the Soviet Army
Engineers, was reported to
have died almost immediately
after firing six shots at the
second car of a motorcade
carrying cosmonauts and high
Soviet leaders into the krem-
lin Jan. 22.
He is said to have taken
poison as well as having been
slugged by Kremlin guards
who foiled the assassination
attempt.
Sources said Ilyin left his
post in the Leningrad area on
Monday, Jan. 20, without re-
porting back to his unit to re-
turn his pistol. A national
alarm and search for him
started the next morning. He,
arrived in Moscow some time
Tuesday and stayed with an
unidentified relative, a mili-
tia (police) captain.
On Wednesday, the day of
the cosmonauts' parade, he ask-
ed to borrow the militia uni-
form in order, he said, to be
able to watch the astronauts'
welcome more closely. Once
inside the Kremlin's Borovit-
sky Gate his militia uniform
enabled him to shoo several
onlookers out of his Way and
clear the range for his attempt-
ed assassination.
According to this account,
official investigations still
under way have yet to reveal
whether Ilyin left any note
disclosing his possible motive,
or whether he acted alone or
as part of some organized con-
spiracy.
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broader plot organized in Len-
ingrad against the top Krem-
lin leadership.
Today's account also. ap-
peared to square with the
strange official treatment of
the case. The assailant's al-
most instant death would ex-
plain why the Soviet Foreign
Ministry first called him a
"schizophrenic," the news
agency Tass then labeled his
act a "provocation," but the
regime afterward refrained
from any characterization of
of this account is not expected
in the near future, it tallied
remarkably with numerous
other reports, rumors and un-
usual circumstances since the
Kremlin incident was dis-
closed last Thursday.
Different semi-official So,
viet informants had previously
said that the assailant was an
Army deserter, and that the
shooting explained why high
Kremlin leaders failed to at-
tend last weekend's Leningrad
celebration of the 25th anni-
versary of the lifting of the
Nazi blockade of that city.
Furthermore, an Asian Com-
munist who heard the shots
and witnessed the seizure of
the assailant from afar has
said tha`? the man seized was
wearing a blue-coated police
uniform.
There were even rumors,
spread by well-placed Soviet
See SOVIET, A14, Col. 1
THE WASHINGTON POST
Officer Called
Soviet Gunman
SOVIET, From Al l However, it remains to be
seen whether security offi-
informants, that the shooting i cials will uncover a real con-
spread over the last few days ly come down with a severe
by semi-official sources that cold, and is now resting at his
the gunman had been com- dacha some 18 miles outside
mitted to a mental hospital Moscow. A flu epidemic has
and that he would in no cir- been raging in the capital all
cuCstances be placed on trial. month.
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spiracy, and what political con-
sequences may follow from
such a discovery.
In another development, the
mystery surrounding the pro-
longed absence of Premier
Kosygin appeared to have been
cleared up.
An official spokesman said
that Kosygin, last seen pub-
licly in Moscow on Dec. 20,
would be back at his desk by
the end of next week. It was
explained that Kosygin, after
holidaying at Kislovodsk near
the case. the Caucasus, had returned to:
It would also explain stories Moscow but almost immediate-