MEMORANDUM

TO: William G. Miller
Fritz Schwarz
Curt Smothers
Bill Bader
Burt Wides
Rhett Dawson

FROM: Frederick Baron

RE: Douglas Dillon Interview

DATE: August 28, 1975

I spoke today by phone with Douglas Dillon, who was on vacation in Maine, concerning a paragraph in an affidavit he supplied to the Rockefeller Commission on May 21, 1975. The paragraph records Dillon's recollection that:

"On one occasion in late July or early August of 1960, shortly after Patrice Lumumba's visit to Washington, I attended a meeting in the Pentagon at which the overall Congo problem was discussed. During the discussion, which covered a great variety of matters, my recollection is that a question regarding the possibility of an assassination attempt against Lumumba was briefly raised. The CIA representative indicated that the Agency did not undertake this sort of operation. This ended consideration of this subject. With this one exception I never heard any discussion of assassination attempts against anyone."

I explored the subject of this meeting generally with Mr. Dillon on the phone and set an appointment for him to review documents and testify on Tuesday, September 2, at 3:00 p.m. in Room G 308.

On the phone Dillon gave the following background information on the meeting at the Pentagon:

1. This was not a small meeting; eight or ten people attended.
2. He did not think it was a meeting of a small body. He said it was not a Special Group meeting or NSC meeting. But he was clear that