Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Soviet Union, Eastern Mediterranean, Volume XXIV

65. Memorandum for the Record, by the President’s Staff Secretary (Goodpaster)¹

Washington, December 18, 1956.

On the President’s direction, I conveyed to Secretary Wilson, Admiral Radford, and Mr. Allen Dulles individually and personally today between noon and 1 P.M. the President’s instructions that, effective immediately, there are to be no flights by U. S. reconnaissance aircraft over “Iron Curtain” countries. Each of them confirmed that he understood what the President intended.

A.J. Goodpaster
Colonel, CE US Army

1. Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File. Top Secret.