SALINGER SAYS INTERLOPER SAT IN AT A TOP SECRET MEETING IN '61

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200170004-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 3, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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BOSTON, June 2---Jt Seattle
businessman inadvertently
crashed a top secret White
Ifouse meeting at the height
of the Berlin crisis of 1961,
Pierre Salinger, who was Pres-
ident Kennedy's press secretar
said today.
Nir. winger described the in-
cident as the worst security
breach in his four yarn at the
White House. He said it jeo-
pardized highly sensitive Na-
tional Security Council plans
for the defense of Western ac-
cess to Berlin at a time when
Soviet air power threatened a
confrontation.
Tlh.0 book':, jacket design
the incident in the presence of
a, mutual friend, Gordon Mc-
Clendon of Dallas, who also
owns a group of television sta-
tions.
Mr. Salinger said Mr. McCaw
had intruded after a series of
misunderstandings that began
when he flew to Washington
to attend a meeting at the Pen-
tagon of the National Security
Advisory Council, it volunteer
citizens group, of which he was
a rner,'tber.
The meeting had been can-,
celed because all top Military
chiefs had been called to the
emergency session at the \Vhite
Douse.
"\vhen he called Gen. Curtis
LeMay's office saying he was
expected at a `National Security.
Council' meeting, the general's,
secretary called the White`
House and somehow got clear-
ance from Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln,
the President's secretary," Mr.
Salinger said.
"At the White House, McCaw
was met by Gen. Ted Clifton,
the President's military aide,
and escorted to the Meeting,
which was already in progress.
The room was dark as the mill-
The visitor went unnoticed,)
and toward the end of the
rneeting President Kennedy
went up to him, patted IS
knee and wistfully confided,
"Things loos; pretty tough to-
day," Mr. Salinger reported.
"it caused pandemonium. in
the security c staitlishment ,, he
said at a news conference held
here in connection with the an-
nual convention. of the Amer-
ican Booksellers Association at
the Sheraton-Boston Hotel.
Novel Describes Incident.
The incident is described in
Mr. Salinger's forthcoming first
novel, "On Instructions of SAY
Government." The names of the
participants have been changed,
and the crisis in question deals
with Chinese missiles in a fie-
tional Latin-American country,
Santa Clara, rn 19%6. The book
will be published next week by
Doubleday R-. Company,
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New York. (only afterwards that his pros
Mr. McCaw, who died lastence was detected and then,
year, told Mr. Salinger about.f all hell -broke loose," he solid,
In an interview,,.toe. author
d the businessman
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