Northern (N): Soviet Union (NS). Political Relations: US

A file of correspondence and press material concerning relations between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. The documents discuss a meeting between Pierre Salinger, the White House Press Secretary, and Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader; and a speech given by Robert McNamara, the American Secretary of Defense, suggesting that nuclear strikes in a future war could be limited to military targets, which was heavily attacked in the Soviet press. The documents also contain a transcript of an interview given by Khrushchev to a group of American journalists; and an article from the New York Times reporting on this interview, suggesting that the transcript of the interview published in the Soviet press has changed the answers given by the American journalists to appear more supportive of the Soviet government. Other documents cover a meeting between Khrushchev and Llewellyn Thompson, the outgoing American ambassador to the Soviet Union.