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leader whom we could recognize as the head of a government in exile.* 52/ * In preparing this comment, the former President ap- parently had to calIon his own memory, on the memory of Gen. Goodpaster, and the memory of Gordon Gray. Based on his own recollections Eisenhower said that neither his own nor Goodpaster's records contained anything about the 17 March 1960 meeting. Similarly, Gordon Gray wrote to Eisenhower: You may recall that not so very long after I became your Special Assistant, in a meeting you had with Allen Dulles and me you gave instructions that activities of the so-called "Special Group" should not be recorded in any place except the files of the Director of the Central In- telligence Agency. You did not wish that there be other copies. It was foro this reason that I did not seek a copy of the March 17th paper for my files, nor did I make notes at that meeting. Subsequent to March 17th, I began to make memoranda of every meeting on that particular subject because I had a hunch that someday these might be important, and I intended to put them in your hands at the appropriate time, understanding, of course, that you might wish to have them destroyed. Incidentally, there were no carbons or other copies mad~ of these memoranda. By not making copies, and by planning to put the documents in your own hands for what- ever disposition you wished to make of them, I sort of rationalized my violation of your instructions about not making such memoranda. I hope I need not assure you that it was not my practice to violate your instructions and this is the only instance of such that I can recall. 53/ - 79 - f"DF SEC~r!T