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But many important members of the administration were not so satisfied with the Invisible Government. They
suspected that someone in the Pentagon or high in the CIA had been funneling incriminating evidence to the
Republicans, possibly raw intelligence which had not yet been analyzed or brought to the President's attention. On
March 25, when McCone came for one of his periodic meetings with the President, a third person, McGeorge
Bundy, was included for the first time. Clearly, Bundy was there to monitor the conversation.

The Invisible Government had taken great pride in its performance during the missile crisis, only to find its
achievement compromised by suspicions that it was playing politics with intelligence.

There was no denying, however, that the intelligence community had succeeded in raising the art of aerial
photography to unimagined heights. The missile crisis had revealed unmistakably that automation was
revolutionizing the spy business as rapidly as it was transforming American industry.

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* After the October crisis McCone was urged to make Sherman Kent of the Board of Estimates, the scapegoat for
the bad guess. But McCone refused to fire him, despite repeated reminders from the White House that the
Estimate was wrong.

* In a speech on March 11, 1963, Salinger insisted that during the Cuban crisis "We did not lie to the American
people." He went on to explain that the Pentagon spokesman who issued the denials "was not lying. He was
communicating the information as he knew it." By implication, Salinger excused his own statements about
Kennedy's "cold."

* The Russians had charged that another U-2 flew over Sakhalin Island north of Japan on August 30, 1962. The
United States replied that "severe winds" might have forced the plane "unintentionally" to violate Soviet airspace.
After the Powers incident, Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy promised there would be no more U-2 overflights
of the Soviet Union. But their pledge did not rule out flights over Cuba, other Communist countries or along the
borders of the Soviet Union.