John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Now there are those who say that the federal Government, the National Government, ought to mind its own business.”

I know who they are going to blame.

I regard it as serious.

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

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.