ROBERT KENNEDY ARTICLE ON CUBAN CRISIS BRINGS $1 MILLION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100680006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 20, 1968
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK (AP) - A detail, but said the manuscript;
25,000-word article about the Cu- contained new information about;
ban missile crisis, written by the the "thinking and feeling at the'
late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, time" of both John and Robert)
has been sold to McCall's magi- Kennedy, as well as correspond-
zinc for $1 million plus reprint once between the late President,
and broadcast rights. and then Soviet Premier Nikita
Norman Cousins, editor in S
Khrushchev
.
chief of McCall's, announced the Sorensen, who was special
sale at a news conference yes- counsel to Joh.n Kennedy at the'.
terday. Inc said the cash price; time of the Cuban crisis, includ-
? for the manuscript - $40 a worded his own account of the con-'
- was the largest ever paid for - _
book several '
such material frontation in a
.
Cousins said the magazine years ago. t'' - STAT
containing the article would ap- He said it also contained pre.
pear on newsstands Oct. 22, the viously unpublished estimates)
sixth anniversary of the U.S.- and reports from the.Central In:'
Soviet confrontation over Cuba. telligence. Agency,.-and; an:'acl
He said the issue would have a:count;of deliberations bytheNaJ
normal press run of 8.5 million bonal'SeburitY.Eouneil:': "' `; ?
copies.
Theodore C. Sorensen, an aide
to both Sen. Kennedy and his
b-other, the late President John
7. Kennedy, said Robert Kenne-
.dy, then attorney general, had
kept detailed notes on the crisis,'
which ended when the Russians
dismantled their Cuban missile ?
sites and took the missiles back
to the Soviet Union.
Sorensen said Kennedy began
writing the article at the request
.of the New York Times maga-,
zinc in April 1967, but later de-
cided not to submit it for publi-
cation because it was too long
!and because some persons might
feel he was using it in a bid for
the presidency.
The article was found in the
assassinated senator's personal
effects and was sold to McCall's
after bids were taken from var
ious publishers, Sorensen said.:
Henry E. Bowes, president of
McCall's Corp., said two other
key figures in the crisis - for
mer Defense Secretary Robert
S. McNamara and former Brit-
ish Prime Minister Harold '
Macmillan - are contributing
introductions to the manuscript.
The purchase agreement, con-
cluded in Washington yesterday
morning, gives McCall's all
rights to the manuscript, includ-_'
? Ing book publication, serializa-
tion, film, television and record-
ings.
The estate retains the right to
approve advertising copy, ex-
cerpts for serialization, photo-
graphs and other publishing de-
tails. Bowes said "agreed-upon-
arbitration procedures will come
into play" in the event of a disa-'
O greement between the publisher
and the estate.
Sorensen refused to disclose-
the contents of the article, in
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