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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-016
This folder contains telegrams and memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include France and Great Britain’s entrance into the European Common Market, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the closure of the Soviet Commandant’s office in East Berlin.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-015
This folder contains telegrams and memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include a trip by poet Robert Frost to Moscow, United States aid to Greece, Soviet Union activity in Germany, and contingency plans for a Soviet Union-Germany (Democratic Republic) peace treaty.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-014
This folder contains telegrams and memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include foreign aid legislation; United States aid to Greece; and remarks by Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev on disarmament, Berlin, and relations with the U.S.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-013
This folder contains memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include remarks by Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev on disarmament and a German peace treaty; foreign aid legislation; and a report on an exchange program between the U.S., Soviet Union, and Eastern European countries in numerous areas including agriculture, sciences, and the arts. Also included in this folder are telegrams and a memorandum regarding a declaration by the Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact on negotiations between the United States and Soviet Union on German reunification and Berlin.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-012
This folder contains telegrams and memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include Soviet Union relations with China and Yugoslavia. Also included in this folder is a proposal by Henry Owen, National Security Council Assistant for East-West Negotiations and Berlin, titled, “Berlin and the Common Market.”
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-011
This folder contains telegrams and memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include Berlin, labor strikes in the Basque Country in Spain, a proposal to lift travel restrictions in the United States for citizens of the Soviet Union, and a trip by Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko to Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Also included in this folder is a memorandum discussing a letter from Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-010
This folder contains telegrams and memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, on various topics including the Soviet Union and nuclear testing negotiations; visits to the United States by various foreign officials; and a trip by Soviet Union Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko to Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Also included in this folder is an issue of the NATO Letter periodical containing an article by Dr. J.R. Killian, Jr., chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation, titled, “An International Institute of Science and Technology.”
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-009
This folder contains memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, on various topics including negotiations between the United States and Soviet Union on German reunification and Berlin, and U.S. policy towards Yugoslavia.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-008
This folder contains memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include French military and nuclear policies; procedures for the harassment of U.S. military convoys by Soviet troops on the autobahn; travel requirements for East German residents; and negotiations between the U.S. and Soviet Union on German reunification, Berlin, and nuclear energy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-007
This folder contains memoranda primarily from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include Algeria, potential uprisings in East Berlin and East Germany, travel restrictions on residents of East Germany, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and nuclear weapons, and chaff drops by the Soviet Union in the Berlin air corridor.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-006
This folder contains memoranda and telegrams from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include potential limitations on nuclear weapons in Germany, relations between the Soviet Union and China, and activity by the Soviet Union in the Berlin air corridors and United States countermeasures. Also included in this folder is a speech by Portuguese Ambassador to the U.S. Pedro Theotonio Pereira discussing communism, Angola, and colonialism.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-116-001
Sound recording of three meetings. First is a meeting held on October 11, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy, President Kennedy’s Berlin Representative General Lucius Clay, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, Military Aide to the President General Chester Clifton, Secretary of the Navy Paul Nitze, Special Military Assistant to the President General Maxwell Taylor, National Security Council (NSC) Assistant for Europe and Canada David Klein, and Executive Secretary of the NSC Bromley Smith. President Kennedy and his staff review in detail recent issues that Allied troops have faced regarding convoy holdups by the Soviet Union in Berlin, Germany. They discuss changes to the dismount instructions for Berlin convoys and also discuss having talks with Allies concerning these changes. One segment of this recording totaling 29 seconds has been removed in accordance with Section 3.4 (b) (1), (3) of Executive Order 13526.Second is an October 16, 1963, meeting on the Dominican Republic. This meeting is closed in full under NLK-10-154a and NLK-01-393-6-4-7: one segment of the recording totaling 38 minutes and 48 seconds has been removed.
Third is a meeting on Berlin, Germany, held on October 21, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Ambassador-at-Large Llewellyn Thompson, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs William Tyler, Under Secretary of State George Ball, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Richard Davis; John Ausland from the Department of State; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of the Navy Paul Nitze, Special Military Assistant to the President General Maxwell Taylor, President Kennedy’s Berlin Representative General Lucius Clay, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy, and the following meeting participants listed in the President's schedule: Mr. Janney, Mr. Whitman, Colonel William Smith, and Mr. Diklein. This meeting is similar to a meeting that was held on October 11, 1963. They review recent problems with the Soviets on convoy procedures. They debate further the sorts of discussions that need to be held with officials of the Soviet Union concerning these ongoing problems. One segment of the recording totaling 26 seconds has been removed in accordance with Section 3.4 (b) (1), (3) of Executive Order 13526.
This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 116/A52, which contains additional sound recording(s) following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 116/A52 in its entirety.