LETTER TO MR. WILLIAM FRANKLIN FROM BARTON J. BERNSTEIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77-00389R000100090019-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2002
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: October 17, 1972
• Content Type: LETTER

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Mr. wil.7.iam F rinklin '',~ . '2 t / ,-
Historical. Office DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Department of State
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr.. # ranklin:
Under. Executive Order 11652 of March 8, I am applying or a review
and declassification of the Kennedy-Khru.shchev correspondence for
the week of the missile crisis, October 21.27, 1962,
In partial. support of my request, I would like to point out that
sections of three of the still-classified messages were printed by
Robert Kennedy in Tha_r teen T):avs, pp. 79.-81. In my letters about this
matter on April 3 and 24 and June 5 and 26, 1 asked ,-.7hether the
former Attoney-General had violated security and never received an
adequate answer.
Should my request for deciasificat:Lon of tilie correspondence of that
week, and especially the three items used by Robert Kennedy, be
denied2 I do think that the Department of State has some obligation
to explain how Kennedy was allowed to reprint these iterns.
The three items that he quoted from are:
State Dept outgoing cable to American Embassy in Mosco:?i #961 (Deptel
961), dated October 21, 192, and classified CONFIDENTIAL. The documen
control number is 11762.
Incoming cable from the American Embassy in Moscow #1070 (Ltnbtel 1070)
dated October 2+, and classified SECRET. The control number s 17952.
State Dept outgoing cable to American Embassy in Moscow #997 (Deptel
997), dated October 25, 1962, and classified CONFIDENTIAL. The docu-
ment control number is 12901.
I do hope that it will be possible for your office promptly to initiat,
a review of the Khrushchev--Kennedy communications of that week, and
especially the three items usod by Robert Kennedy.
I am requesting these materials for a study of the crisis that I am
preparing.
. Thank you very much.
Sincerely
Barto J. Bernstein
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