477-10001-10445 v9.4 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER: RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE : DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : HY 50955 Docld: 32263348 JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form Agency Information LBJ 177-10001-10445 NSF, JOHN MCCONE MEMORANDA, MTGS. 6 JAN. 64-2 APR. 64, BOX I Document Information CIA MCCONE, JOHN 02/21/1964 2 NEED SUBJECT ASSIGNED MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD Secret Withhold DOC. #12 é Page 1 8/26/20]
20 February 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Meeting with the President - 20 February 1964 - Alone |. Ladvised the President of my willingness to go with hicn and to meet early in the day with General Eisenhower if he thought this would be constructive. He said he felt General Eisenhower might feel he was being high-pressured and that he intended merely to advise him of the plan to surface the OXCART and exchange formalities. He would then tell him hé was ordering me to go out and brief him in the next week or two andl _ should make my own arrangements. 2. Ltold the President we had a very sensitive effective operation working in Mexico City___ ss C—“‘“‘SCCC«dWhhicchs involved telephone surveillance and was being done in a most careful manner with his knowledge and with the assistance of a few of his trusted officials. is_hz i intimate relationship between our station chief, 3, Ltold President Johnson that we continued our interrogation of Nosenko; our counterintelligence people were inclined to feel he was a plant but had not made up their minds. President said he thought he was probably legitimate and would give us some good information. I said I hoped this was true - that we ce rtainly were taking advantage of everything that he did give us; that we were working closely with the FBI, however we could only conclude at the moment that the Soviet's performance and action were so different from any other defector case that our suspicions had been aroused. The President asked to be kept informed. 4. The President then raised the question of Spain, suggesting I might return to Spain to talk again to France. He said he was in a very difficult situation because of announcement of the cut-off of aid to Britain, Franee and Yugoslavia which he did not know about until he read it in the paper, and that he was be side himself because he wanted to give aid of $31 million to Spain but had the greatest difficulty in the justification. HW 50955 Docld:32283348 Page 2
SEERET- EVES I told the President it was my impression from information gained from clandestine sources that Franco had made some moves to curtail trade with Cuba after my visit with him but that the Spanish companies were endeavoring to circumvent his orders by various surreptitious methods. The President asked that I study the matter carefully and speak to him about it next week. O'Ryan to contact Noel ACTION: I have asked Mr. and lam asking Mr. Ball to contact Ambassador Woodwejrd to determine whether the Spanish had taken any actions which they have announced or might communicate te us which would indicate an intention of their part to curtail or restrict shipping or trade with Cuba. 5. The President then said he wanted to do everything possible to get me out of the cloak and dagger business. That he was tired of a situation that had been built up that every time my name or CIA's name was mentioned, it was associated with a dirty trick. He asked if our economic studies had stood up and I said yes, they had, and that they were reconfirmed and supported by an exhaustive article in TIME Magazine The President seemed pleased at this, expressed satisfaction in CIA's operations but was most emphatic in his feelings that we should get away from the cloak and dagger image and expressed a determination to bring . oy}, this about by statements he would make from time to time JAM /mfb HY 50955 DBocld: 322763348 Page 3