remark at an NSC meeting that could have been construed as an order to assassinate Lumumba. 4. I do not recollect whether any reference was made at any NSC meeting to an assassination plan or attempt in which the United States was engaged. 5. In 1960 Robert Johnson was a member of the NSC Staff as the note keeper at NSC meetings in the absence of Deputy Executive Secretary Marion Boggs, who normally took the notes and prepared a first draft of the official NSC minutes subject to my review and revision for circulation to the NSC members for approval. 6. If extremely sensitive matters were discussed at an NSC meeting it was sometimes the practice that the official NSC minutes would record only the general subject discussed without identifying the especially sensitive subject of the discussion. In such sensitive cases, no reference to the subject would be made in the