STATE DEPARTMENT INFORMED BY OLIVER POWERS THAT HE HAD RECEIVED TELEGRAM FROM NIKITA KRUSHCHEV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B00803R000200040045-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2004
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: May 31, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

STAT I State/ Memo of Conv. 31 May 1960
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OX Richard H. Davis, Dep. Asst. Secty for European Affairs
received a phone call from Sol W. Curry, Norton, Va., on behalf
on Mr. Oliver Powers, to inform the State Department that he had
received a telegram from Nikita Khrushchev in answer to a letter
he had written to him through the Sovie Em asst' i.n Was ington.
Text:
"I have received your letter with a request to forward to your srn
his mojher's note. In your letter you wrote that the note was
enclosed, but for some reason it was not found in the envelope.
I must inform you that your son will be tried according to the laws
of the Soviet Union. The law is the law and I am not in a position
to interfere in the matter, which is entirely within the compe-
tence of the court. If you wish to come to the Soviet Union to
see your son, I am ready to help you in this matter. (Signed)
N. Khrushchev, May 31, 1960."
State Dept. review completed
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