NODULE X7 OSWALD IN MINSK AND THE U2 DUMP: JANUARY ...

THE SUMMIT CONFERENCE
On August 6, 1959, The New York Times reported: "Officials
said that while the [recent] talks between President Eisenhower
and the Soviet leader could possibly improve the atmosphere for
a summit meeting, they were not to be regarded as automatically
preliminary to a conference of heads of government." On
September 26, 1959, Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower
met at Camp David, Maryland. "The Spirit of Camp David"
signified a break in the Cold War. While the two heads of state
were discussing Berlin, John McCone, chairman of the Atomic
Energy Commission, was meeting with his counterpart to discuss
the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Vice President NIXON
accompanied McCone to Camp David. On September 27, 1959 President Eisenhower
took Premier Khrushchev to his Gettysburg farm for private talks. Khrushchev was given
a 21 gun salute when he left, and French Prime Minister Charles DeGaulle was hopeful
that a summit conference was near. A U.S.-Soviet Atom pact was foreseen.
Discussions over nuclear cooperation had been underway for several months. At Camp
David, a summit conference was scheduled for May 16, 1960, in Paris. President
Eisenhower would then visit the Soviet Union.
ANALYSIS: ANGLETON
ANGLETON knew that there was going to be a summit conference as early as August
1959. OSWALD was dispatched to the Soviet Union in September 1959 to sabotage the
summit conference and destroy the understanding between American and the Soviet
Union that had come to be known as détente. ANGLETON believed: "Détente is a
sham, a tactic." After he resigned from the CIA, ANGLETON told friends that he was
done in by Henry Kissinger in retaliation for his outspoken doubts about the U.S. policy
of détente with Russia and China. [Newsweek 1.6.75] Evidence suggested he was
determined to prevent American/Soviet relations from warming up. In 1946 he wrote: "In
practice a certain overlapping of Counter-Espionage and SI (positive intelligence)
functions exists, particularly in this turbulent period before the peace conference when
most secret political activities of foreign powers are conducted through intelligence
service's contacts and networks." [The Secrets War NARA p237]
ANGLETON gave OSWALD the info he needed to shoot down the U-2 spy plane then
had OSWALD give the Soviets the information just before the summit, so that the
summit would be destroyed. The national security of the United States would be
undamaged by the sacrifice of the U-2.