Article: Papers Show Kennedy Board Meetings

The Associated Press
AP Online
03-21-2001
Papers Show Kennedy Board Meetings

The government recently declassified more than 400 pages of documents from the early 1960s that provide a glimpse inside the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. The board was a group of civilian experts appointed as an independent source of advice on intelligence matters.

Some highlights from minutes of their meetings:

Nov. 9, 1962 -- Addressing the advisory board after the height of the Cuban missile crisis, CIA Director John McCone said he warned the Kennedy administration on Aug. 10 that the increasing Soviet presence in Cuba could mean they had ...

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