Llewellyn Thompson Telegram to Dean Rusk, May 27, 1961

Telegram

By: Llewellyn Thompson

Date: May 27, 1961

Source: Thompson, Llewellyn. Telegram to Dean Rusk, May 27, 1961. The National Security Archive, George Washington University. Available online at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/berlin_crisis... ; website home page: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ (accessed April 2, 2003).

About the Author: Llewellyn Thompson (1904–1972) was born in Las Animas, Colorado. In 1929, after graduating from the University of Colorado, he entered the U.S. Foreign Service. In 1941, he was dispatched to Moscow and witnessed firsthand the Nazi siege. From 1957 to 1962 and from 1966 to 1969, he was the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, serving...