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U.S.-Cuban Talks in '63 Described urinal states aeregate to the United Nations, the late Adlai 1 E. Stevenson, and to Ambas- -U.S.-CUBAN TALKS sador W. Averell Harriman. He added: "On Sept. 19, Harriman. told IN '63 DESCRIBED me he was "advmoz.esome' 0, 12,nilx.41 :/4 enough to favor the idea, but suggested I discuss it with Bob ,Book SeesKennedyC ut Kennedy because of-it5•polbtical on Castro Move for Ties iniplications. Stevenson, mein while, had mentioned it 'to.the President, who' approved t talking to Dr. Carlos 'Ledhuga, By HENRY RAYMONT the chief Cuban delegate; so A detailed account of Presi- long as I made it clear we were dent Kennedy's cautious but not soliciting discussions.", favorable response to overtures Terms Not Proposed by Premier Fidel Castro of Cu- Mr. Attwood suggested that ba for,, a resumption of diplo- the AdministratiCor never . ex- matic relations is disclosed in a plicitly proposed the terms of a. book to be published this month. settlement beyond . reiterating The secret diplomatic ex- its official position, that. Pre- changes between the two Gov- mier Castro should sever • all military ties with the Soviet ernments began in September, Union and Peking and renounce 1963, and ended with Mr. Ken- his proclaimed attempts to.sub- nedy's assassination. vert 'other Latin-American, gciv- Long withheld by fetiner ernnients. members of the Kennedy Ad: However, the book'' strongly suggests that the Kennedy Ad- WIUL ur. iscnuga, who ministration, the details of the ministration agreed . with his confidential talks appear in has- since been shifted to the estimate that a deal- was pos- Cuban Ministry of Culture, he "The Reds and the Blacks" by sible. said: William Attwood. Arthur M.. Schlesinger Jr. "He had received instructions Mr. Attwood is editor in briefly alluded to this period in from Castro on Nov. 23 to enter Chief of Look magazine, and in his book "A Thousand Days." into informal discussion with the fall of 1963 served on the He wrote: "I have the impres- • me, But he assumed the situa- 'United States delegation to. the siOn that in the autumn Of -1963 tion"had changed. I said I. didn't United Nations. Before that he 'the President was reappraising know.. But , I informed [Mc- was President Kennedy's Am- the Castro problern.:' George] Bundy and later was bassador to Guinea and subse- Mr. Attwood, whose book will told that the Cuban exercise quenty he was appointed by be published by Harper & Row would probably be put on ice President Johnson as Ambassa- on March 16, seemed to outline for ,s while—which it was' and dor to Kenya. • for the first time the actual where it has been ever since." The former diplomat's sud- diplomatic moves on which this 14r. Bundy was a foreign pol- den involvement in talks with reappraisal was based_ icy 'adviser to President Ken- nedy. Cuba began during the United Talks With Castro Suggested Nations General Assembly — meeting in 1963. Wheri he discussed the matter "Although my title was Spe- with Dr. Lechuga, Mr. Att- cial Advisor for African Af- wood continued, the Cuban dip- fairs . I also found myself lomat suggested "there was a 4 involved, during most of the good chance" of arranging a fall, in a diplomatic exercise private talk with Mr. Castro in aimed at normalizing Cuban- Cuba. American relations," Mr. Att- ut Robert Kennedy, who Wood wrote. • had been named by the Presi- dent to follow the Cuban situa- Castro 'Looking for Way Out' tion, proposed that representa- 4 The diplomatic talks, he re- tives of the two Governments ported, were triggered by a might first meet in Mexico, Mr. report from the Guinean Am- Attwood reported. bassador to Havana suggesting Meanwhile, Lisa Howard, a that Premier Castro "was television reporter who was in unhappy about Cuba's satellite Cuba at the time, had talked status and was looking for a to Maj. Rene • Vallejo, Premier way out." Castro's personal- aide, who of- The report struck Mr. Att- fered to arrange a meeting be- wood as plausible on the basis tween Mr. Attwood and the of additional information sug- Premier in the latter's residence gesting that Mr. Castro.wanted at Varadero Beach, the book an accommodation with Wash- said. ' ington and of his own assess- In a final passage about his ment that the Cuban leader was confidential mission, Mr. Att- "too emotional to be a dis- wood strongly suggests that the ciplined Communist." attempts to reach a detente Mr. Attwood said he believed with the Castro• regime were that the situation warranted a ended by the President's assas- "discreet contact" with the sination. Recounting his last Cuban delegation. He said he conveyed his. belief. to. the. chief .
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