42. Editorial Note

On September 13, 1961, SIOP-62 was briefed to President Kennedy. (Enclosure to JCS 2056/281, September 13; National Archives and Records Administration, RG 218, JCS Records, CCS 3105 Joint Planning (13 September 1961)) A partially declassified text is printed in International Security, Summer 1987 (12:1), pages 41-51. For information on the origins of SIOP-62, see Foreign Relations, 1958–1960, volume III, Documents 1ff.