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never saw any memorandum for the record .•• Well, I'll tell you, even Tracy Barnes, who was not all that meticulous and punc- tual would have been very well advised to have written a memorandum on this subject. After all, Allen W. Dulles would want to know -- and more than just a telephone call -- what the .hell had gone on. It's customary in the DDP when you have a meet- ing of this sort -- that is, to say with somebody as important as the Ambassador to the United Nations, and on a fleeting, tran- sitory problem -- to do a memorandum of conversation for the Director, at least; because he might be asked, at the next meeting of the 5412 Group, or something: "By the way," says Under-Secretary of State, "you had a man who saw Adlai Stevenson?" I mean, you can count on Adlai Stevenson doing a memorandum; and we had better goddamn well have ours, too. Now, that would not necessarily be the kind of a memorandum that I would neces- sarily see, and all I needed to know, if I even needed that, was to hear it, and I know I heard from Jake ... "Oh, by the way, one of those things that happened yesterday, was Tracy got his ass up to New York and briefed Stevenson." 88/ Examination of the cable traffic between the USUN Mission and the Secretary of State clearly indicates \ that Stevenson accepted. the deception story at face value, and that he was completely in the dark about the fact that the D-2 strike at Castro's airfields had been the work of the Agency sponsored Brigade -- either that, or Stevenson was the world's best and greatest liar. In his statement on 15 April 1961 in response