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...Thursday, Dobrynin phoned to say he had another letter from Brezhnev. It was written as if the crisis of the night before had never occurred. Without any reference to his threat of unilateral intervention, Brezhnev informed Nixon that he had dispatched 70 Soviet "representatives"?apparently not military personnel???to observe implementation of the ceasefire. The Soviets had backed off. The immediate danger was over. I recommended that Schlesinger stand down the alert starting at midnight...
...Both the CIA and the KGB have had their share of successes and disasters. The CIA prides itself on the Penkovsky case, which exposed the operation?and many of the personnel???of the .Soviet military intelligence network. In 1967, the CIA managed the skillful extrication from Moscow of KGB Colonel Evgeny Runge, who had led a spy network in West Germany. Until the Francis Gary Powers case, the U-2 operation was a major intelligence success. The CIA is also credited with obtaining superior information about Soviet military developments and Chinese nuclear-weapons progress, and with sound assessments...
Then came the trip to the ninth-floor operating room. Anesthesiologist Earle C. Skinner saw to it that the positive-pressure machine, the EKG monitor and the transfusions kept going during the transfer. There was such a crowd in the fifth-floor hall?relatives, aides, hospital personnel???that Kennedy could not be wheeled to the main elevator. Instead, he had to be wheeled to an elevator that did not go all the way up and be transferred to the main elevator at another floor...
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