TELECONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001700180013-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 31, 1962
• Content Type: NOTES

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Friday, 31 August Acting
1. See attached resume of telephone conversations between
General Carter and Mr. Bundy, General Lemnitzer, Mr.
Harvey and Mr. Hilsman.
2. Called McGeorge Bundy and General Lemnitzer, with information
that the readout of the last U-2 flight over Cuba showed SA-2
sites.
Received call from the President about 1300, asking.how many
poeple were told of this information. I said it has been handled
in regular channels. The President said to put it back in the
box and nail it tight; also to call General Lemnitzer to that
effect. I followed these instructions. Also told Cline to put
clamps on. (This freeze continued until Saturday, 1 September,
when information was extended further to the analysts so as to
advise the President better.
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TELECONS - - 31 August
0845 - General ggr ter to Mr. Buzpdy
Gen. C: The preliminary readout on the pictures we took yesterday
and the day before yesterday indicate that there are seven SA-2 sites
being put in and a couple of PT bases going in.
B: Anything that would suggest submarines? How far along is it?
C: They are just beginning to c]dar out.
to General Lemnitzer
0850 General Carter
General Carter gave General Lemnitzier same info as above.
Gen. L: You think your people will be calling for one of those things
we were talking about yesterday?
Gen. C: Yes, but I don't: know when. Probably in the next day or two.
Gen. L: The only problem is State.
Gen. C: That was sort of an unanswered thing, wasn't it? That other
show was approved. He (Taylor?) said there was no problem on the
101s but I am sure he meant the other area.
Gen. L: It will take some preliminary work for us to set it up.
0855 -- General Carter to Mr. Harvey
Gen. C: We should take a reading on the curr nt intelligence -- it looks
like everybody has got a hair up their00 s-~?~lT
H: It may be a preview on what we had planned.... We are going to send
one in from down South. I still don't have a full reading from the Navy on
planning? ?.
1250 -- The President to General Carter (see separate transcript. )
Little later - General. Carter to General Lemnitzer
General Carter told General Lemnitzer that the President had called and
"was a little exercised about the number of people who might be informe4
c annels:
of that inf rmation I gave you this morning. It came throughthe _
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31 August - 3:30
General Lemnitzer to General Carter
L: I understand you have seen this Flash report. It has got some
factors in it that even goes beyond. Wanted to be sure that you told
State and Bundy.
C: I talked to I and Bundy himself. I think we are trapped
on our call from the President.
Mr. Harvey to General Carter
5:30 -- We briefed the Attorney General for about 30 minutes with
with photographs and full information... Lundahl and his shop and as
far as I can tell it went well and was very satisfactory. The Attorney
General was quite serious -- did not ask to keep any of the material and
handed it back. I asked him if he wanted to see anything further.
He then asked me to stay afterward . . . talked about the situation
generally, asked about the operation we discussed last night.. Hopes to
leave for Hyannis.
5:35 -- Mr. Hilsman to General Carter
H: How did your conversation come out with MacNamara?
C: I don't know, I told him about the
H: I think there is a great risk it is going to come out. People are going
to say these things as your illustrates and I think it is going
to make the President look blind. he other thing that you can't operated
very effectively with half the people who have a need to know not doing their
jobs. There is not a thing to do over here and I have put a clamp on SSO
channels and Lundahl's channels. We aren't putting it in intelligence
estimates or bulletins or anything else.
H: people like me and you learnt about this completely automatically.
Then what I had I knew. The first thing that happened was that I got a
hold of and he said get a hold of the Secretary right away.
So I called and he told the Secretary ////
C: . . . he said he wanted to get this thing nailed right back in the box.
H: It is going to comeout - not through the leaks in the U. S. Government
and because of that what he has to do is -- he doesn't have torhavfan
answer if he schedules a special NSC meeting tomorrow...... .
C: Does Dean know the problems we are having?
H: Yes, I have told him., ..... .
C: I don't know - this is a matter of at least politics as much as anything
else right now.
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- TELECONS - 1 September
1050 --Secretary Gilpatric to General Carter
G: I am concerned about the clamp which the President put on the Press.
C: So am I, and
G: We have got to go ahead and instruct Col. Steakley and go ahead with the
normal processing of that. We have got to be in a position to brief the
President at least on Tuesday. No people involved must be kept at
within the Presidential guidance. XX
C: and I agree we have got to get a full readout on what was taken.
Thing is whether we shouldn't have some low altitude flights to really pinpoint,.
The President called . . .
G: He called me at 4:30.
C: (Read from transcript of telecon w/President) I called General Lemnitzer
and told him that the President didn't want this discussed with anybody or
any paper on it. There shouldn't be any paper or any translation in the
intelligence community. He told me not to send out any copies of this to
Secretary of Air or SAC . . ..
G: Yes, no distribution nor circulation but what he told me just before he
left which . . . was to get a military appropriation assessment on playing
out what . . . the military standpoint . . . the equipment on
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