SOVIET POSTPONEMENT OF RESUMPTION OF NUCLEAR TESTING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A029700380001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 8, 1962
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT So~riet Fostponerrcents of Resumption of Nuclear.
Testing
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Khrushchev told a group of Soviet leaders at a i N,.ay 1962
celebration that the Presidium of the Central Committee had
decided to postpone further Soviet atmospher.?i.c or underground
nuclear testing for six to eight monthso r~ SoviF:t general officer
who was present quoted Khrushcriev's rernar?ks substantially as
follows: "Let the wrathful waves of pro}est by the peoples of
the entire world against the l~~rerica,n tests fall squarely on the
heads of Kennedy and ivtacmillane Let all the muck stirred up now
by their tests fail on the:rr: alone, Tf the Soviet Union were to
initiate a series of tests at present, we would bring the heavy
muck down upon oura.el.ves. Let, us wait for six months v_ we s:~a11
take advantage of an appropriate situation and. put a different
sauce on our tests".
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