102. Memorandum for the Record1

SUBJECT

  • NSC Meeting, 4 August 1964, 12:30 p.m.
  • In attendance: The President, McNamara, Vance, Rusk, Ball, Robert F. Kennedy, Dillon, McGeorge Bundy, Carl Rowan, McCone

[Here follows discussion of Vietnam.]

2. Ball on Cyprus:

Makarios endeavoring to sabotage the Geneva meeting. Some pluses to this—not all negative. Greek negotiator returns to Geneva today and Papandreou plan for Enosis. Quiet deal with Turks. Leak would destroy effort—Turkish have leased from Greek Govt.

Time on our side.

Bundy—relations with Commies and Nasser.2

  1. Source: Central Intelligence Agency, DCI Files: Job 80–B01285A, Meetings with LBJ, 1964. No classification marking. Drafted by McCone on August 5.
  2. NSC Record of Action No. 2496, August 4, on this meeting reads: “Cyprus: Noted a briefing by Under Secretary of State Ball on the situation in Cyprus and the status of the current negotiations in Geneva.” (Department of State, S/S-NSC Files: Lot 70 D 265) In a memorandum to Ball, August 4, Komer expressed surprise at the optimism that Ball had shown during the briefing. In an August 4 memorandum to the President, Komer noted that it was time to rethink the Cyprus problem since Makarios would leak any deal that Acheson worked out. (Both in the Johnson Library, National Security File, Country File, Cyprus, Vol. 11, Memos)