PERSONS/ENTITIES: Kennedy, John F. President CIA
DATES: 10 Sept. 1963
CATEGORIES: DIEM
OCCURRENCE: On 10 September 1963, in an interview by Huntley and Brinkley, the President denied the charge that the CIA makes its own policy.

SOURCE: IG Report 1967 (CIA), p. 19
STAFF: Dawson
DATE: 6/27/75
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PERSONS/ENTITIES: Bundy, Colby, McCone, McNamara, Kennedy, President
DATES: 10 Sept. 1963
CATEGORIES: DIEM
OCCURRENCE: At a National Security Council executive meeting on Vietnam, with Carter and Colby participating for the CIA, Colby provided the following record: Bundy stressed the need to unify U.S. government posture, to coordinate press guidance and to control outgoing messages to Saigon. He emphasized the importance of following the President's guidance on this delicate problem, in spite of intensely differing views of what should be done and how, the risk, minimum objectives, and facts. McNamara stated that his position was vigorously against throwing out this government without seeing an alternative and that none appeared to exist. Mr. McCone commented that the problem was not so much the existence of an alternative as to how to put one into power. Bundy summarized the President's position as one in which we must express our reservations as to mistakes and misdeeds of Diem but not be a position where we cannot deal with him further.

SOURCE: IG Report 1967 (CIA), p. 19
STAFF: Dawson