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Archival Preface

…dedicated to the preparation and signing of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Tests in Three Environments (the Moscow Treaty of 1963), the contacts of USSR Foreign Minister A.A. Gromyko with U.S. leadership during his stay at the XVIII UN General Assembly, and discussions by Soviet leadership on key issues for the further development of relations with the U.S. and directly with J.F. Kennedy. This section includes 11 documents covering the period from June 13 to October 25, 1963.

The second, main section includes documents addressing several closely related themes: the reaction of Soviet leadership to the assassination of J.F. Kennedy in Dallas, the trip to the U.S. by a trusted associate of N.S. Khrushchev, A.I. Mikoyan—a member of the CPSU Central Committee Presidium and First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers—for participation in the funeral, the establishment of initial contacts with the new president, L. Johnson, and, finally, the USSR’s assistance to the American side in the investigation. This section includes 66 documents covering the period from November 22, 1963, to September 28, 1964.

The third section is devoted to issues related to the history of the creation of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston and the provision of documentary materials for its collection. This section includes 7 documents covering the period from February 26 to August 28, 1964.

Finally, the fourth (supplementary) section includes materials on the granting of residency rights to Lee H. Oswald in the USSR and his stay in Minsk. This section includes 11 documents covering the period from October 13, 1959, to May 28, 1962.

The primary basis for compiling this collection was documents stored in Fund No. 3, “Politburo of the RCP(b)–BKP(b)–CPSU” (thematic files “On the Assassination of President J.F. Kennedy” and “USA: Political-Economic Relations” (Inventory No. 66, “International Issues, USA Subgroup”), Inventory No. 16, “Minutes of CPSU Central Committee Presidium Meetings (Original Resolutions and Materials), XXII Congress”), as well as individual documents from N.S. Khrushchev’s personal fund (Fund No. 52, Inventory No. 1).

The collection also includes several documents from other federal and departmental archives, complementing the set of sources obtained from the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation (AP RF).

Materials related to A.I. Mikoyan’s trip are stored in the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation. Documents concerning Lee H. Oswald were received from the Archive of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation and the Central Archive of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. The Central Archive of the Committee for State Security of the Republic of Belarus provided materials on Oswald’s stay in Minsk.

In addition to the documents, the collection includes little-known photo and film materials from the funds of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.