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299. Memorandum of a Telephone Conversation Between the Secretary of State and the Director of Central Intelligence (McCone)1

Washington , August 6, 1964, 1:10 p.m.

TELEPHONE CALL FROM MR. McCONE

Sec said his secure phone was not buttoned up and he would have to talk to M on this one. M said he had gone into the question of the use of some of the sensitive information to prove the night attack [Page 646] and disprove Hanoi’s allegation that it did not take place; it just cannot be used; we will have to have eyewitness accounts and things of that kind.

  1. Source: Department of State, Rusk Files: Lot 72 D 192, Telephone Conversations. No classification marking. Transcribed by Proctor.↩