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TOLEH Ruk FilesFrom: FrederickRe: Notes on.Date: 7/4/75GORDON GRAYROCKEFELLER COMMISSION TESTIMONY| Page                                                     | Subject                                                   || -------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- || 2262                                                     | Biographical background                                   || 2268                                                     | Opinions on PFIAB generally                               || 2272                                                     | Never heard of Executive Action                           || 2273                                                     | "I know of no plan, plot, operational organization that   || ever came to President Eisenhower with respect to any    |                                                           || assassinations, "HHH (2272-3)"                           |                                                           || 2273                                                     | In 1960, Eisenhower "approved a four point program, saka: || sabotage, stepped up economic sanctions, propaganda,     |                                                           || and the the training of Cuban refugees"                  |                                                           || 2274                                                     | There was one wE "well known individual" on PFIAB         || who would ask at each CIA briefing on Vietnam "have you  |                                                           || considered trying to bump off some of the leaders in Nor |                                                           || Vietnam". num&damandryxwa Gray says that "Agency polic   |                                                           || was against assassination on the ground that it didn't   |                                                           || accomplish anything".                                    |                                                           || 2275                                                     | "I know of no (assassination) plan or operational         || capability that has ever been authorized at any high     |                                                           || level of government"                                     |                                                           || 2276                                                     | Rmentden At a meeting with Gray and a representative      || of the CIA in 1958, "the President told me that he wante |                                                           || the 54/12 gropp to pass upon all activities of this      |                                                           || government which impinged upon the sovereignty or the    |                                                           || people of some other nation....President Eisenhower was  |                                                           || very sensitive to the necessity of having the top people |                                                           || in government from the appropriate agencies pass upon    |                                                           || the wisdom, and in some cases, feasibility of those      |                                                           || kinds of operations."                                    |                                                           || 2278-9                                                   | Gray is unenthusiastic about proposal for Joint Congress  || al Koversight committee because of danger of leake       |                                                           || 2281                                                     | Gray recommends creation of a "chief intelligence office  || (either the DCI or a Special Assist. to the Pres. for In |                                                           || 2292                                                     | & TRUJILЬО: Gray did not recall Ambassador Farland's      || report in May, 1960 that dissidents in the Rom. Rep..wan |                                                           || high powered rifles with telescopic scopesx and subseque |                                                           || received authorization to provide them by the Assist. Se |                                                           || of State through the DCI.                                |                                                           || 2293                                                     | Gray did not recall Special Group meetings at end of Eis  || hower Admin. (11/29/60; 1/12/61) at which it was agreed  |                                                           || furnish arms to dissidents in the Dom.Rep.               |                                                           || --"I would think our concern was, if we had that kind of |                                                           || concern, was with being of assistance to the dissidents, |                                                           || and not assasssination, or that kind of activity."       |                                                           |NW 50955 DocId: 32423488 Page 4