191. Editorial Note

On December 26, the President met at the White House from 9:03 to 9:55 a.m. with Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles, John S. D. Eisenhower, Andrew Goodpaster, and Gordon Gray. (Eisenhower Library, President's Daily Appointments) According to a memorandum of the conference prepared by Gray on December 30, the President "expressed a feeling that for one reason or another the main elements of the Cuban situation had not been presented to him." Eisenhower said he planned to speak with Secretary Dulles "about better coordination." The President also indicated that "he did not wish the specifics of covert operations to be presented to the NSC." (Eisenhower Library, Project "Clean‑Up" Records, Meetings with the President) The memorandum is published in Declassified Documents, 1983, 1342.