421. Memorandum for the Record1

SUBJECT

  • Minutes of the Meeting of the Special Group, 21 May 1964

PRESENT

  • Mr. Bundy, Mr. Thomas L. Hughes, Mr. Vance, and Mr. McCone
  • Mr. Vinton Lawrence, Mr. Robert Meyers, and Mr. Kinloch Bull, Jr. were present for Item 1
  • [name not declassified] was present for Items 2 and 3
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3. Angola

The paper, “Covert Support for Non-Violent Activities of the Angolan Nationalist Movement,”2 was approved with the following exception: Mr. Hughes stated that the Secretary did not go along with the proposal to allocate [less than 1 line of source text not declassified] GRAE members; it was not his understanding that the meeting summarized in the memorandum dated 5 May 1964 gave approval for subsidies to individual politicians. The Secretary asked that this aspect of the program be deferred for another week pending additional study. Mr. Bundy requested that Mr. Hughes make note of the fact that the other members were unanimous in their approval of the proposal in its entirety.

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Peter Jessup
  1. Source: Department of State, INR/IL Historical Files, Special Group Files, S.G. 122, May 28, 1964. Secret; Eyes Only. Prepared by Jessup on May 22. Copies were sent to U. Alexis Johnson, Vance, and McCone.
  2. Not printed. The paper dated May 18 is a revised version of the March 6 proposal discussed at the Special Group meeting on March 12. (See Document 415.) [text not declassified] (Department of State, INR/IL Historical Files, Special Group Files, S.G. 121, May 21, 1964)