THE WHITE HOUSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010019-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 7, 2014
• Sequence Number: 19
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

5. ? - STAT
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/08: CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010019-7
rTHE WHITE HOUSE
By David Wise
WASHINGTON.
President Kennedy Is leaving his schedule flexible for
the rest of the year, to bd ready for any number of diplo-
matic developments that may arise in the poet-Cuba
period, Including a summit meeting with Soviet Premier
Nikita S Khrushchey.
It was chiefly for this reason that his state visit to
Brazil scheduled for Nov 12-14 was postponed until after
Jan. 1. The Prudent has accepted virtually no major
engagement:, in the ncit several weeks, in order to have
freedom of movement to deal with any interr.ational de-
velopments.
In the days immediately preceding the Cuban crisis,
It had become dr almost generally accepted fact that Mr.
Khrushch-v would come to the United Nations and that
there v euld be a summit meeting in Washington some
time during the fall or etii-ly winter.
That picture is no !unger the same. If only because
Washington would all likelihood not, at this sacenent.
be Mr. Ithrushches 's a???ot tte spot for a summit meeting.
Two weeks ago, he could have walked into the White
House In a strong illlomatic position. Now, having
promised to pill his missiles out of Cuba in the face of
United States determinal,on, he would risk the appearance
of coming to Washingur hat in hand.
As a result, Americi.i officials are inclined to belle',
that If Mr. Khrushchey ,I:es continue to press for a summit,
he will now suggest t14.; it be held somewhere halfway?
Vienna again, Geneva, at Parts, for example.
THE U.2 IS BACK IN THE NEWS
The U-2, the world'a most controversial airplane, has
a way of embarrassing iitterican Presidents at the oddest
times. Almost lost amid;l the flurry of notes over Cuba
was that another of the I igh-flying reconnaissance planes
drifted over the easterr tip of Siberia last Senday?at the
peak of tension over Cilia.
The President. in ins reply to the Soviet Premier,.
expressed "regret" at tit. incident. Of even more interest,
however, is the fact.--s.?!ti now it can be told?that U-2's
have been photogralfilne Cuba for months. It was the
U-2 that first brourfic back evidence of Soviet offensive
missile bases on Cascel's
This carefully valeeri secret can now be told because
the American reersinaissance plane lost last. Saturday,
and presumed &rimed by a Soviet SAM anti-aircraft
rocket, was a of Ine Strategic Air Coinmand The
Air Poree listed alto num as missIni?Maj. Rudolph An-
derson jr., of '.'irestiville, 8. C., and the I.T1.2 is the Air
Force's only ear-mate reeonnaissance plane.
It will be tecai t ct. that wii?n Francis. Ciazy Powers and
his U-2 were ,..r.dtuiss.1 by the Russians and the 1960 sum-
mit meetir co1l [Aid, Pt cs,tdent Eisenhower pledged that
the plane oulci ric oy,irfly Russia again.
Pres..e.!at Ken le dy repeated this promise five days
after e ice -. office. mit r , President promised that
ti'. ?
OSOS1 shun' 311HPA ? SNIY
'A 'N .133ILLS H
'A 'PI Vixen we)
IRTId '(Pc'g Autn
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/04/08: CIA-RDP74-00297R001600010019-7