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    "ocrText": "TOP scan\nOctober 3, 1956\nMEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD\nThe following met with the President today to discuss a special\nreconnaissance project -- Secretary Dulles, General Cabell, Mr.\nBissell, Admiral Radford, Colonel Goodpaster.\nThe President said he had become discouraged regarding the project\nprincipally because, whereas he had understood there would be a\ngood chance of not being discovered on most, if not all, operations,\njust the opposite had proved true. An evaluation he had seen did\nnot take up the question of world opinion. He recalled great ef-\nforts for many years we have been making to create an opinion in\nThere\nthe world that we are not truculent and do not want war. To the\nworld, these operations seem provocative and unjustified as violat-\ning sovereignty.\nMr. Dulles said he did not dissent from the President's comment. He\nthought if we could get really important results by a crash operation\nof a week or ten days we might consider the matter further, but he\nquestioned how permanently valuable the results would be. Assuming\nthere will be no war (which seems correct, although we can never be\nsure) it would seem that the information would become obsolete if\noperations were not followed up. He did not think that we could afford\nto go on indefinitely taking the propaganda impact that has occurred.\nGeneral Cabell said the results would have validity longer than the\nSecretary might imply. A good datum of geographic and man-made\nfeatures as well as deployments would be established.\nIn addition,\nwe might learn of things that we do not now know exist.\nThe President said a Russian can now buy an air ticket in New York\nand learn about our whole country. He questioned whether they would\nlay a complaint before the United Nations, although they might speak\nabout it. Secretary Dulles thought it was possible they might make\na complaint to the U N regarding \"aggression, \" i.e., violation of their\nfrontiers.\nIAR SCALL\nDECLASSIFIED WITH DELETIONS\nE.O. 12958, SEC. 3.6(b)\nAgency Case E0-1996-0005/\nNLE\nCaso 94-349#3\nBy BBM NLE Dato 8/24/90"
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