Confusion on High: Sept. 6, the State Department secretly informs the governments of West Germany, France, Italy and Great Britain that Eisenhower will not meet Khrushchev in New York; Sept. 7, Eisenhower says he will be in New York on Sept. 20 (when Nikita is there); Sept. 11, Nixon tells a TV audience Eisenhower might meet with Khrushchev “under certain circumstances.” . . . De Gaulle adamant in his refusal to head French delegation to UN, but diplomatic sources say Macmillan—despite public statements — would like to go to New York. . . . This may be in works: a Soviet threat to boycott the United Nations if it doesn’t get major concessions from General Assembly. . . . The man who hired defectors Martin and Mitchell for National Security Agency committed suicide some time ago.
Anti-Communist sources in Uruguay say Dominicans were indeed responsible for attempted assassination of President Betancourt of Venezuela (for which Trujillo was punished by OAS). But, these sources say, the Dominicans were exiles and probably in Castro’s employ. . . . Employees of recently – nationalized shoe factories in Cuba told their wages will be cut 25 to 32 per cent. . . . Castro agents reportedly trying to buy 10 million pounds of dynamite in U.S. for use in underground political action in other Latin American countries.




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