MEETING WITH SECRETARY MCNAMARA AND SECRETARY GILPATRIC ON 4 SEPTMEBER 1963

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 16087537
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: July 11, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2022
• Case Number: F-2015-01188
• Publication Date: September 5, 1963

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5 September 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting with Secretary McNamara and Secretary
Gilpatric on 4 September 1963
1. Read and approved the Bross letter. Gilpatric spoke
most enthusiastically of Bross.
2. McNamara formally requested that we arrange for U-2
aerial surveillance of the India-ChiCom border utilizing Takhli.
3. Commented that the NRO budget had not been settled
and that demand for increase in the '64 budget was in their hands.
I asked that no action be taken on this budget until I had reviewed it.
4. Suggested that membership in USIB be reduced .a little
later this year.
5. Reviewed their position on South Viet Nam which was to the
effect that the President had been poorly advised, that the actions
taken last week were incorrect, that we must win the war and that
they saw no alternative to winning it 343/i ithaalt with the Diem Government.
ADD:
6. Expressed great concern over the Dunlop case and ordered
a review of the military personnel security procedures.
ADD: Both McNamara and Gilpatric said they felt that throughout last
week the content and tone of the cables sent from State to the Embassy
in South Viet Nam did not reflect the intention and desire of the
President as expressed in the meetings from day to day. Furthermore
it was obvious to them that State were deliberately leaking the
Government's position to the newspapers, particularly the New York
Times,
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