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    "title": "Memorandum of Conference with the President Authored by John S. D. Eisenhower",
    "description": "This memorandum records President Dwight D. Eisenhower's authorization of continued peripheral reconnaissance operations seeking electronic intelligence.",
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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET\nSeptember 6, 1960\nby\nMEMORANDUM OF CONFERENCE WITH THE PRESIDENT\nJuly 1, 1960 -- 12:00 Noon\nOthers present: General Twining\nSecretary Merchant\nColonel H. L. Wood\nCaptain E.R. Hardin\nGeneral Goodpaster\nColonel Eisenhower\nThe meeting opened with a briefing by Captain Hardin, appended hereto.\nCaptain Hardin showed the President that the first mission, if resumption\nof the ELINT missions is authorized, would be almost totally nonprovoca- -\ntive in nature. In answer to a question by the President, he pointed out\nthat the British perform missions of the same type in the European area.\nWe work closely and share information with them.\nThe British Comet, along with the Canberra,\nflies ELINT missions at\nfeet.\nRecent British ELINT missions have brought normal reaction from the\nSoviets. In one case Soviet fighters approached to a point of 30 nautical\nmiles from the aircraft. In another case they approached to within five\nnautical miles. This is not the least bit unusual, and often in the past\nfighters have come within two nautical miles and have travelled parallel\nto the aircraft \"pacing\" it.\nThe Swedish fighters, in\norder to protect their neutrality, also scramble and often pace the ELINT\naircraft.\nIn response to another question by the President, Captain Hardin pointed\nout that the Soviets have flown similar ELINT missions off Alaska. He\npointed out a disagreement which occurred between the Intelligence and\nAir Defense people as to the nature of the U.S. response to these missions.\nThe Intelligence people had been successful in deterring the Air Defense\nforces from reacting more strongly than the Soviets normally do to ours.\nDECLASSIFIED WITH DELETIONS\nTOP SECRET\nE.O. 12958, SEC. 3.6(b)\nAgency\nCase OSD 96-M-01171\nNLE\nCase 95-118-01\nBy His\nNLE Date/11/97"
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