GROMYKO'S SON ON THE CUBAN CRISIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B01594A000100040062-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 1998
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: January 8, 2005
• Content Type: NSPR

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Groin 's Son on the Cuban Crisis
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By Bernard Gwertzman
Soviet foreign minister of dupli- father, President Kennedy did
city, something his son resents. not raise the Cuban issue, but
This White House meeting, Mr.
Gromyko writes, "was widely
commented upon in the American
press during the Caribbean crisis,
and after the murder of Ken-
nedy in 1903-in all kinds of
memoir literature, including that
of Robert Kennedy."
"The special goal of all these
commentaries was o"`hide th
rue cf arac er: 77 ie meetm
and to invent still anotTier pre -
ex to justify a violation o
e norms of in erna ionai ]away
e activity of the governme9
Also, he said that the President
did not speak specifically about
the question of Soviet missiles 'in
Cuba, "limiting himself only to
general statements that because
of the actions of the Soviet gov-
ernment in the Caribbean, the
situation had 'suddenly wor-
sened'; '
"The Soviet foreign minister
said that the Soviet government
responded to the appeal of Cuba
for help only because this appeal
had the purpose of eliminating
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