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RECORD SERIES NSF, JOHN MCCONE MEMORANDA, MTGS. 6 JAN. 64-2 APR. 64, BOX [
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ORIGINATOR CIA
FROM: MCCONE, JOHN
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DATE : 02/21/1964
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20 February 1 964
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting with the Pregident 20 February 1964 Alone
1_
I advised the President of my willingne88 to go with hitn and to meet
early in the
with General Eisenhower if he thought this would be
constructive.
He 8aid he felt General Eisenhower might feel he Was being
high-preesured and that he intended merely to advise him of the plan to
8urface the OXCART and exchange formalities- He would then tell hirn he
wab
ordering me to go out and brief him in the next week or two and I
should make my own arrangements .
2 I told the Preeident
we had a very sensitive effective operation
working in Mexico
jointly with President Mateos which involved
telephone surveillance and was being done in a most careful manner with
hi8 knowledge and with the a8si8tance of a few %f his truated officials =
This had resulted in & very intimate relationghip between our station chief,
Mr . Win Scott and the President_ Ambaggador Mann knew of this from
Scott, a8 did certain selected people in State Department Howaver
President Mateos did not know of Mann 8
knowledge of the operation and
looked upon the operation a8 an intimate arrangerent between himself and
the CIA station _
I mentioned that Mateos had been best man at Win Scott '8
recent wedding -
[ 8aid the Pregident Bhould not mention this but I wanted
him to know about it if it wa8 raised by President Mateob .
3 _
I told Pregident Johngon that we continued our interrogation of
Nogenko; our counterintelligence people were inclined to feel he wa8 3
plant but had not made up their minds _ Pregident Baid he thought he waa
probably legitirate and would give u8 sorne inforretion _ I said [
hoped this wa8 true that we certainly were
taking advantage of everything
that he did give u8; that we were
working clogely with the FBI, however we
could only conclude at the moment that the Soviet 8
perforrance and
action were 80
different from any other defector case that our Buspiciong
had been arouged. The President agked to be kept informed.
4_
The President then raised the quebtion of Spain, guggesting I
might return to Spain to talk to Franco . He said he wa8 in a very
difficult situation because of announcement of the cut -
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Off Of aid to
Britain,
France and Yugoglavia which he did not know about until he read it
in the paper, and that he
wa8 beside himself because he wanted to give aid
of $31 million to Spain but had the greatest difficulty in the justification,
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I told the President it was my impression from information gained from
clande stine bources that Franco had made bome move8 to curtall trade
with Cuba after my vielt with hir but that the Spanish companies were
endea voring to circumvent his ordere by various surreptitiou8 methode .
The Pregident asked that [ study the matter carefully and speak to him
about it next week _
ACTION: I have agked Mr _ 0'Ryan to contact Noel
and [ am asking Mr. Ball to contact Ambassador Woodwgrd to
deterrine whether the Spanish had taken any actions which they
have announced or might communicate to u6 which would indicate
an intention Of their part to curtail or rebtrict shipping or trade
with Cuba _
5 . The Pregident then Baid he wanted to do everything possible to
me out of the cloak and dagger busine88 _ That he was tired of
a Bituation that had been built up that every time my name or CIA '& nane
W2g mentioned, it was agsociated with a dirty trick He asked i our
economic Btudies had stood up and [ said ye8, they had, and that were
reconfirmed and supported by an exhauetive article in TIME Magazine
The Preeident seemed pleaged at this
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expresged eatisiaction in CIA'8
operations but wa8 moet emphatic in his feelings that we should away
from the cloak and dagger image and expressed & determination to bring
thie about by statemente he would make from time to time _
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