MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
 October 22, 1968
 SUBJECT: Hot Line Meeting June 10, 1967
 CIA Director Richard Helms described this meeting in the
 following manner:
 Present were the President, Under Secretary Katzenbach,
 Secretary McNamara, Mr. Clifford, Mr. McGeorge Bundy, Mr. Walt
 Rostow, Ambassador Thompson and Helms himself.
 Mr. Katzenbach left early in the meeting to call in the Israeli
 Ambassador to put pressure on Israel to accept a cease fire.
 The President had his breakfast during the meeting is the
 Situation Room Conference Room. Then he left for a short period.
 While the President was out, Secretary McNamara asked whether
 we should turn the Sixth Fleet around to sail toward the eastern Mediterranean.
 Thompson and Helms agreed. Helms pointed out that Soviet submarines
 monitoring the Fleet's operations would report immediately to Moscow,
 that the task force had stopped circling and had begun heading eastward.
 The President returned and McNamara mentioned this possibility.
 The President said, "Yes, go ahead and do it." McNamara picked up a
 secure telephone and gave the order.
 Recalling the atmosphere of the meeting, Mr. Helms said that
 conversation during the first couple of hours was in the lowest voices he
 had ever heard in a meeting of that kind. The atmosphere was tense. As
 the morning wore on, everyone relaxed a bit as it became clear that the
 fighting was petering out.
 
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