DISTRIBUTION OF NIE 11-8-64 (CONVERSATION WITH MCGEORGE BUNDY)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00967A000900030014-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 2005
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 28, 1964
• Content Type: MFR

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28 September 196+
SUBJECT: Distribution of MLLE 11-8-64
(Conversation with McGeorge Bundy)
1. Called upon McGeorge Bundy Friday, 25 September,
5 p.m. Rehearsed with him as per the attached four
categories of new findings in the present draft 11-8-64+.
first two. I gave him a brief recap of these and went
on to a fuller discussion of three and four.)
2 Complete agreement that if the content of the
paper was going to leak, the content of the draft -- which
scores, if not a couple of hundred people are already
familiar with -- would be equally damaging. Also agreed
that if printing or dissemination of the final version
were delayed into November and the fact of this delay
became known, this would be even more damaging.
3. The conversation shifted to the authorized
distribution of 11-8-62 and 11-8-63. I gave my best guess
as to the numbers of the all-source versions which had
been authorized. (A check on Saturday indicated they were
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almost on the nose.) We did not discuss circulation
of the Top Secret versions.
4. Mac indicated there might be some virtue in
proceeding deliberately to the printing and distribution
after USIB approval of this year's 11-8 -- a week or 10
days might be a good idea, he said. I told him that
in my opinion, this kind of a delay should not occasion
any difficulties for the few prime consumers of the
paper who could use tidied-up copies of the mimeograph
for all practical purposes.
it now stood and give him the figures on authorized
distribution of 11-8-62 and 11-8-63. The draft and
my memo went forward to him at noon on Saturday. As of
that time I was unable to nail down the figures on the
Top Secret version of 11-8-63. We are right now looking
this up (1130).
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