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that the material had been reviewed by the Secretary of State. In the transmittal to Dungan, the Depart- ment said: As you will note, President Ydigoras' letter takes up extremely sensitive matters regarding Cuba. We believe that the President's comments on March 7 to Mr. Alejos obviate the need for any writ- ten reply to President Ydigoras. More- over, it is believed that it would not be desirable in any case to reply in writing to the letter. 81/* * Of interest with reference to the letter from Ydigoras to President Kennedy are the following: In briefing the Special Group on 2 March 1961, the DCI noted: That [Roberto] Alejos is in Washington with a letter from President Ydigoras addressed to President Kennedy, and that he is attempt- ing through his brother, the Guatemalan Am- bassador [Carlos Alejos], to obtain an appoint- ment with Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Dulles said that he understood the letter took a strong posi- tion on the necessity of early action, vis- a-vis Cuba, but -- in answer to a question -- assured the group that we "[CIA] had neither written nor inspired the letter. 82/ Then, whether incidental or intentional, at that same meeting, "Mr. Dulles also said that he thought we should discuss soon with the Special Group actions to be taken with respect to employment of the forces now in training in Guatemala." In other words, the identi- cal subject that Ydigoras was raising with Presiden~ Kennedy. In 1964, when he appeared in an NBC television White Paper on the Bay of Pigs, Roberto Alejos put a somewhat different emphasis on the meeting that was (footnote continued on following page)