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President Kennedy: What are we going to announce in regard to tomorrow's planes?

McNamara: We shouldn't announce anything.

President Kennedy: Not whether we are continuing or—

Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric: Because we've already announced that we are going to continue.

McNamara: But we didn't say tomorrow. We just said we're going to continue surveillance.

President Kennedy: We've got enough messages right now, John [referring to McCone]. I think that he knows about the plane. We've [or he's?] announced it. So I think that ... let me see this, John.

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