“13-00000 TRAIT Notsi by 00 / Tre / 1,- trim ooly Yco IY 18 January 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Disarmament Meeting on 18 January 1964 at the White House 1. At 2:45 this date Mr. Alexis Johnson informed me that there would be a meeting with the President ”
“danger as long as he was not disposed of. However, I do not remember any such discussion. I do not have any direct recollection of the substance of that meeting. 5. Although Hadyn Williams probably reported to me on the substance of the NSC meeting.of August 18, 1960., I d”
“full recollection of the subject of Executive Action in the 01 ^I early 1961? 22 Mr. Bundy. Would it help if I try to describe in a 23 general way what I now understand of this matter, the 24 part which is recollection and the part which is clarified 25 by discussions w”
“7 • MEMORANDUM FOR THE RE 0 3D Page 4 1964 -Item Date of I #Meeting Participants Subjects Covered 18 June DCI, House Armed Briefed committee--see Congressional Comte File Services subcomte 19 June DCI, Amb Blair et al Luncheon-- 19 June DCI, Dr. Fubini See TAPE # 143 7”
“iW*****R*T*EPOMoos TOP "heerort,, - n’. SECRET H Le 75.9 Phone (Area 202) 5 4 4 -6 0 0 0 '©9 9 0 1 Now, are you able to testify with respect to the likeli- 2 hood of the conversation you have recounted taking place , 3 prior to the 25th or the 26th of January 1961. ”
“'eesAe^^Mr tff 1 TOP SECRfT 12 Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 1 fact is that you were given a briefing, and you didn't urge it, 2 but on the other hand you didn't say it should stop. Sett. 5 How can you explain, if you can, the testimony of your 4 friend Mr. Bissell, and t”
“STATEMENTS OF JOHN II. IRWIN II TO FREDERICK.D. BARON ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1975 Throughout 1960 and until the end of the Eisenhower Admin istration, I served as Assistant Secretary of Defense. My current business address is c/o Patterson, Bellknap. & Webb, 30 Rockefeller Plaza”
“14-00000 ( 1 25 November 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Discussion with President Johnson, November 23rd, about 9:15 a.m. The conversation lasted approxi mately 15 minutes. 1. The President entered Mr. Bundy's office alone and no one was present during th”
“14-00000 ( ( 1 98 (Soviets or the West, such as Sukarno and certain South American countries, so that they will understand they are not leaning on very much when they lean on the Soviets.77 6. Explained that I had given a complete briefing to General Eisenhower and conv”
“)00 0 98 serve in this capacity and also in others. In this connection, the President stated that he was not satisfied with the Ambassador-elect to Yugoslavia and had therefore held up the appointment. His request for help and the suggestion of names in connection with Yug”
“STATEMENTS OF JOHN N. IRWIN II TO FREDERICK D. BARON ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1975 Throughout 1960 and until the end of the Eisenhower Administration, I served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. My current business address is c/o Patterson, Ba”
“begin cb-l8 11san.”5 TOP SECRET Phone (Area 202) 544- Mr. Smothers. Did you discuss with him. or did he raise with you specifically, the fact that he had received from 6! Mr. McCone a memorandum from Mr. McCone In 1967? 4 Mr. Bundy. Yes, he told me that. 5 Mr. Smothers”
“01 «1a WE a 2 December 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD EYES ONLY--NO DISTRIBUTION SUBJECT: Discussion with the President, 30 November 1963 Throughout the conversation the President mentioned a number of very personal problems and asked my help and also asked that Bundy and”
“other words, DCI’s letter of comment is a matter of record with the President and the other principals at the meeting, and the President commented that the Central Intel ligence Agency was certainly a smooth-operating outfit. It was obvious that he had his tongue in his chee”
“.C . 2 0 0 0 3 19 uals, never to me that I can recall by the President. But 20 it did come up’. 21 Mr. Schwarz. And it may have come up in this period in 22 the fall of 1961 as something to consider, is that correct? 23 Mr. Bundy. As something to talk about rather than ”
“14-00000 C ( 26 November 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Meeting with The President - 25 November and 26 November 1. On Monday, November 25th, there was no briefing of the President, although there was a short visit with him at the State reception on Monday ev”
“ITSO/ DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY WASHINGTON 25, D. C. Sares ofP March 27, 1963 M aY *.Tmel Col 00 CeasMooreed 40 28 63 10 0 3 DIM $ haveloSR 0tto me MEMORANDUM FOR THE GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE En regard .Atta”
“TOP SECRET 6000 objection i have aeskieecotatonanethxcFintona to mave co-l, Phone (Area 202) thePress which will’simp1y re-emphasize to them what I thinR Iosieerciingnenitencee, -20 :!4 209 the trole of President Kennedy and Attorney General Kennedy Skew ---------bee”
“J— Dillon Exhibit 5 September 21, 1960 MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Discussion at the 460th Meeting of the National Security Council, Wednesday, September 21, 1960 Present at the 460th NSC Meeting were the President of the United States, presiding; the Acting Secretary of State”
“14-00000 July 8,1952 Note: Nelson please deliver this to Allen. To: Allen Dulles You recently asked me for our views on Yugoslavia. The enclosed memorandum 1s a consensus formed from all of our key staff members. It also meets with the approval of John Hughes. I think ”
“ashington, D .C . 20003 19 signed to say that anyone specifically told him that, but 20 that he talked to Robert Kennedy frequently about it. Would 21 this be in the gingerman concept you are speaking of? 22 Mr. Bundy. Now we are right at the specific point I 23 Iwould ”
“1 , wpkrsnlveorb.vor 49 X, K,3CA* STOP SECRET T i 41 158 Phone A w 202} 544-6000 1 lack. 1 Mr. Smothers. Okay. 9 Just one final series of questions. 3 If we might, Mr. Bundy, go back to our conversations 4 regarding your request to see documents prior to your te”
“TOP SECRET 12 Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 1 Mr. Baron. Where was this? What was the forum in which 2 the presentation was made. 5 Mr. Halley. This was a meeting with President Kennedy and 4 other members of the then-Cabinet were present at that particula: 5 meeting. 6 Mr”
“attack him and his policies. He said, however, that he could not sit by and watch this opportunity for promoting peace and understanding among nations to dissipate simply because it was an election year in which he would be politically involved. 8. The President then said th”
“To: Files From: Frederick Baron Re: DELETION IN SPECIAL GROUP MINUTES OF NOVEMBER 3, 1960 Date : July 7,1975 In a phone conversation with Jim Wilderotter of the White House, Wilderotter assured me ** that after the line "beyond our EE capabil- ities" on page 3, there ”
“received virtually no guidance, policy or otherwise, from this organization. Also ha claimed to suffer from lack of contact with vs. lio stated that when ho saw Mr. Dulles a week or so ago, it was the first time he had talked to anyone in authority here in many a moon. As far”
“understandable to me since Murphy is one of the junior old cronies of Mr. Truman. The President asked me for my reaction and I gave it substantially in accordance with the last paragraph of my Truman memorandum. I told the President that I certainly felt Mr. Truman was willin”
“TOP SECRET 131 Phone (A re a 2 0 2 ) 5 4 4 -6 0 0 0 34 , - 2 weed Mr. Schwarz. I’ll mark a string, Mr. Bundy, and if Mr. 2 Kelley could put it in frontof you, we’ll then talk about 5 them. '1 4 As Bundy Exhibit 6-A, the memorandum for the record, 5 Meeting on Cuba, 3 Apri”
“TOP SECREToces 39. ■ 1 order to clarify my recollection of the 6thof August 1962. Phone (Area 202) 2 And I was allowed to look at the NSAM files. And my memory was 5 refreshed by NSAM-1, which I believe the committee has. 4 Mr. Smothers. Have you made a similar request t”
“STATEMENTS BY C: DOUGLAS DILLON TO RHETT DAWSON ON SEPTEMBER 15, 1975 I, C. Douglas Dillon, do wish to make the following statement. 1. On September 15, 1975 I was shown by Rhett Dawson, Counsel, Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With. Respect to Int”
“TOP SECRET P 58 Phone (Area 202) 5 4 4 -6 0 0 0 7 3 1 the fact that.he had been mentioned, "because it seemed to me 2 that in my recollection that must be wrong, and he would be 5 interested in getting it. straightened out. 4 Mr. Smothers. Can we go to your conversatio”
“12 sous ovs tror onryt voting 1 Mr. Schwars. Would you read into the record, Mr. Goodwin, 2 this is a memorandum for the files dated June 1, 1961, subject 3 Report of Point Raised at meeting with Vice President. 4 Would you read into the record the second paragraph? & ”
“1 TOP SECRET 135 Phone (A re a 2 0 2 ) 5 4 4 -6 0 0 0 38 1 Mr. Schwarz. As Bundy 6-E the Summary Record of NSC 2 Standing Group Meeting, April 23, 1963. 5 (The document referred 4 to was marked Bundy 5 Exhibit 6-E for 6 identification.) 7 8 030577 9 10 11”
“.4 V. VLVALI ( )rr’ 8 RECEIVED OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON 25. D. C. I JAN 29 1962 4057 27 Jamomel9g2nE8b CIA HAS aOR TO AND/OR- MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL From: Brig. Gen. Lansdale Ed FILE N. B. Noting that you will be away from the cou”
“in the group and who 21 suggested that I get in touch with him by telephone. I then briefed Bundy on this’, on; the Sth of November 22 23 Bundy told me that the President was more in favor of pushing towards an opening toward Cuba than was the State Department, 24 25 ”
“it and started 4 1 0 F irs t S tre e t, S .E ., W a s h in g to n , D .C . 2 0 0 0 3 20 talking about it, what are we going to do about 21 this — I don't know what the conversation was about. And 22 Bannerman called in and said, what was this all about? 23 Mr. Wides. Thi”
“1 0 F irs t S tre e t, S .E ., W a s h in g to n , D .C . 2 0 0 0 3 did. And I was received by the President in the company of 20 21 Mr. Goodwin in the Oval Office for a conversation which lasted, 22 if memory serves,^ in excess of an hour and a half, in which the 23 Pre”
“IOP SECRET amt Phone (A rea 202) 544-6000 1 the United States. Several months later, I presume because 2 of that trip and 'several other contacts I maintain with 5 representatives of the Cuban government at the United Nations 4 and the Organization of American States, be”
“TOP SECRET 97 61 Phone (Area 202) 54460000 1 (Off the record.);." 2 Mr. Smothers. . This quite frankly, Mr. Bundy, this ana 3 related to an ancillary matter that is of concern to the 4 Committee. 5 You mentioned conversations with Mr. Schlesinger. Again, 6 were th”
“Administration? 23 Mr. Bundy. I held that office from the beginning of the (s 24 Kennedy Administration to the end of February 1966. I 1 25 Mr. Schwarz. Prior to commencing work with the Kennedy TOP SECRET 44 1.”
“that notes generally in presidential papers, official documents of the NSC, remain with the NSC. He said that the impression at the time was one of great shock. He said he had heard of nothing like that since. He said d.t was uncharacteristic of Eisenhower to speak of anyth”
“C 1 1 102 6 December 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Meeting with The President - 9:45 - 6 December 1963 The first part of the meeting involved a discussion with Rusk, McNamara, Rostow, William Bundy and McGeorge Bundy concerning the procedures on MLF. Rusk request”
“M. Calefano March 27, 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR THE GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Attached is a draft of the missile crisis section of the Presi- dent’s Report to Congress on United States Participation to the United Nations during 1962. The Department of State ”
“come up with a plan which made professional sense to s which we felt sound enough 30 that we would present it or masters. We would have done SO and the resultant instruction t. the fiel’ would have depended or. their reaction as far as I was concern- within the Agency. ”
“for firm recommendations. In this connection we should prepare a briefing and also we should study carefully various courses of action. 98 3.The President then raised the question of the deal between the Rumanian government and the Ferguson company for the procurement of a ”
“your staff, 410 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 19 about what was really in train, I would have had a very different approach. Senator Mondale. Mr. Chairman. 22 The Chairman. Senator Mondale. 231 Senator Mondale. Yesterday Secretary Rusk testified be- © 2”
“McGEORGE BUNDY Me reported to the rest of the NSC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE merely that three telegrams S W sent to Saigon: a personal message to LODGE from the PRESIDENT, a general message from the DEPARTMENT to the AMBASSADOR, and a telegram from TAYLOR to HARKINS. (11) (This is”
“gsh 58 TOP SECRET 58 Phone (A rea 202) 544-6000 Mr. Baron. It appears to me that the Bandoeng Conference 1 1 2 took place, according to se testimony, in 1955 o and that the incident he was describing was either in '55 or 4 late in '54. 5 Mr. Hunt. I had no recollecti”
“13-00000 TOP SECRET leader whom we could recognize as the head of a government in * exile. 52/ * In preparing this comment, the former President ap parently had to call on his own memory, on the memory of Gen. Goodpaster, and the memory of Gordon Gray. Based on his ow”
“ighly sensitive information. The acquisition of the information is noted in this present memorandum. After Deputy Secretary Gilpatric gave me the requirement last night, I talked to Bruce Cheever (who was acting for Bill Harvey while Harvey was out of town). I sketched in the pur”