John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Our prestige is not based on what we say but what we do, relative to what our enemies do.”

I regard it as serious.

I just say that there's no sense having a program if a man who is innocent of any intelligence mission, which is true in this case, is subjected to arrest without means of defense.

I think it would be unwise to attempt to negotiate it out here.

No, we are going to bring back several hundred before the end of the year.