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...behavior at the investigation-but how convenient it is now to have him join the general chorus." The reliability of Vitkevich's belated accusations appeared questionable. Experts noted that handwritten notations were never permitted on the record of a prisoner's interrogations. Moreover, Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered the destruction of the dossiers of all rehabilitated prisoners in the early 1950s...
Kennedy disregarded this advice, and two years later Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was warning--in an October 23, 1963 letter--that there might be "catastrophic consequences for world peace...
...that day, as the crisis was waning, Khrushchev wrote Kennedy a long letter quietly chastising the President for his action but saying "Let us normalize relations...
...Khrushchev wrote: "You threaten us with war...We must not succumb to light-headedness and petty passions, regardless of whether elections are forth-coming in one country or another...
...Khrushchev said that North American fears of an attack from Cuba were groundless because the Russians were sane people, not barbarians...