On November 29 , 1961 , American officials declared that the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union ( TASS ) allegedly distributed a distorted , editorialized version of the Kennedy interview , given to '' Izvestiya '' employee Alexei Adzhubey . According to U.S. officials , the omissions included Kennedy 's charges that the Soviets had violated the Yalta and Potsdam agreements , as well as the moratorium on nuclear tests and his claim that the issue of divided Berlin largely stems from the Soviet refusal to agree to German reunification . Adzhubey promised to publish the full text in '' Izvestiya '' and Kennedy publicly expressed his appreciation for that
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Yalta Conference
Foreign policy of the John F. Kennedy administration