PRESIDENTIAL RESPONSE TO QUERY CONCERNING U-2 OVERFLIGHT POLICY.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP33-02415A000100390049-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: December 24, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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MEM~itA,~i>'iTM FOR: Direct:~r :~? central ? telligence
SUB,;ECT Presidenzi~.i Res~~orse ?:o Query C~oncernir~
U-2 Overflight Pa:++__ _~: ~ `
1. This memorandum cam::..: _ns a recommendation~o~- your
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~. There i~ -:. ays a :~ss;:bility that .ri. his press confer ._ce
Pre._ .~~nt uill be :, ~~~~ concernir_~ his policy with .~~egard to U-' - e
flik of ? h ~ Sovi ~ `?' , ,~~r, `~:'he probability of this~s su.~y '_ ~.ing rs. _:. .
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"As you are all a~~-~. re, F-resident Kennedy at his
news conference on 25 ,i ~:..-_~: 'y x'701, stated that he had
ordered that such flights ~zor be resumed, That order
has never been countermanded and so far as I am con-
cerned is still in effect. "
If the questioner should pursue the matter by asking under what conditions
might the order be countermanded and such flights resumed, it is proposed
that the President a_.-~swer as follows:
"? t=.~ric it would be highly inappropriate for _-ne
to speculate on any such purely :zypothetical~utr::-e.
situation. "
That the president be briefed on the possibility that the L-~ o -
flight :policy issae x-~-~ay be raised at some future press conference and _ ..
he be prepared to -respond with the statements proposed in paragraph 4