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[30]Date : 08/04/98
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[43]DOCUMENT INFORMATION
[45]OSD
[47]: THE CUBA PROJECT
[49]01/24/62
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[51]MONGOOSE
[53]: MEMORANDUM
[55]TOP SECRET
[57]1B, 1C
[59]RELEASED WITH DELETIONS
[60]07/30/98
[62]Reviewed by OSD, CIA and State.
[64]NO JOINT STAFF OBJECTION
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[76]é. . TAR A:
[77]SUBIECT: Tasks Assigned to CIA in General Lansdale's Program
[79]Review
[81]A. TASKS
[82]Part Vv. pp. 5-8, of General Lansdale's program review of
[83]the Cuba Project, dated 16 January 1962, assigns 32 specific tasks
[84]to elements of the U.S. Government. Of these, 16 are assigned
[85]ta CLA solely or jointly, The tasks have been reviewed by this
[86]Agency, and it has been determined that substantially all reporting
[88]and planning deadlines can be met. Work on all tasks, with and”
[90]ptol State r this document
[91]Se alae of portion(s) of #
[93]without assigned dates for completion, is in progress. The
[95]following detailed observations are keyed to General Lansdale's
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[101]l. Task l, p.5, The intelligence community is hard at
[103]Records Collection Act of 1992 (PL 102-626)
[105]Reviewed on 6/30
[107]work on NIE 85-62 and is attempting to meet the deadline of
[108]? February. As was agreed ina conversation of 23 January 1962
[109]with General Lansdale, a short extension may be necessary.
[111]2. Task 2,.p.3. The Cpa-Lorcka Interrogation Center in
[113]Florida will be in operation on 15 February -- the deadline date,
[115]3.-Task 3. p.5 The survey is in progress and will be
[117]completed on the stipulated date On the basis of the information
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[138]obtained the possibility of establishiag additional interrogation
[139]points will be determined.
[141]4. Task 4, p.5. An operational assessment of the stay-
[142]behind net in Cuba will be completed and reported by the deadline
[143]of iS > Pepruary: Because communication with singleton agents is
[144]by sw, . not w/T, it is unlikely that assessment can be completed
[146]by the date stipulated; an extension to 28 February may be
[148]necessary, although every effort is being made to complete the work
[150]before that dat An intensive program aimed at the acquisition
[152]of third country’ assets through the cooperation of diaigan.
[154]is also under way, particularly in Spain: Belgium of vance,
[156]Uruguay, and Costa Rica.) /A progress report on the status of
[158]this program will be uidde’by 15 February, although this Agency
[159]cannot be sure that the cooperation of all intended participants will
[160]have been obtained by that date. CIA has also taken the follow.
[161]ing additional steps in respect to Task 4.
[163]a. A cable has been sent to field stations to give added
[164]impetus to the search for assets and the development of both
[165]unilateral and joint operations. Progress reports have been
[166]required by | March.
[168]bo A survey of the Cuban Chinese community and of
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[179]operational access to it is under way! Target date: end of
[181]February. —
[183]c. An assessment of more than one hundred Persons to
[185]determine their suitability for return to Cuba as agent¢in
[187]the guise of student alse being conducted. Target date:
[189]end of February.
[191]5. Task 5, p.5. The l February deadline will be met, and
[192]by that date we shall also have begun the search for suitable inter-
[193]™Mediaries, Analysis to date has not uncovered a top-level official
[194]of the Cuban regime whose Personal characteristics indicate he
[195]would accept recruitment or agree to defection now. Although
[196]some targets of opportunity will appear outside Cuba,
[197]will necessarily be based upon an appeal made inside the island by
[199]intermediaries selected from the ranks offjournalists, foreign
[201]officials, international businessmen, foreign lawyers, crime
[203]syndicates, internatiorial detectives and foreign police officials.
[204]Additimally, plans for the defection of lower-level Cuban officials
[206]abroad have been completed, and the search for targets and access
[208]abroad is under way’)
[210]6. Task 6, p.5. By the assigned date we shall complete
[212]and submit a coordinated Plan. We shall also have begun action on
[214]most planning
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[221]cover and deception Operations by that data.
[223]7. Task 7, p.5.- Byl February CIA will submit an opera.
[224](| tional schedule for the initiation of an Organized resistance move.
[225]-/\ ment inside Cuba. The schedule will include the localities Selected
[227]and the assessment of Some candidates. _ A fall aSsessment will
[229]Saal
[231]be completed in accordance with the schedule listed in Para. 4,
[232]above, in conformance with Task 4, ff should be noted, | however,
[233]that this operational schedule (like the schedules éalled for in
[234]Tasks 10, 26, and 30) will necessarily be tentative and subject
[236]to later revision as the number of assets inside Cuba increases _
[238]and as the flow of intelligence is augmented, - Moreover, the
[240]8. Task 10, p.5. CLA has on hand both Propaganda and
[241]political action assets in the Caribbean area and elsewhere in
[242]Latin America. It is planned to use those assets both to support
[243]the Project inside Cuba and to generate and mobilize public and |
[244]official opinion against Castro outside Cuba, The Opérational
[246]Schedule will be submitted On the stated date,
[248]a se
[249]9. Task 18, p. 6) Discussions with the @pPropriate AFL-CIO.
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[259]officials have been donducted and a feport of developments me)
[261]submitted by 15 February.
[263]aw 10. Task 2l, p. 7./ Plans for inducing the failure of crops
[265]will be submitted by 15 February. These plang will envisage both
[266]the use of controlled assets who can be infiltrated and exfiltrated
[267]and the provision of encouragement and guidance to the resistance,
[268]so that it will undertake acts of sabotage, some of which are to:
[270]| be directed against crops, particularly rice.
[272]method er disrupting the supply of Cuban nickel to the USSR could,
[274]if approved, include (1) the sinking of Cuban or Bloc ships by open
[275]attack; (2) the use of "frogman" or UDT tactics in harbors for the
[276]Same purpose, (3) the employment of torpedos and mines toward
[278]this end; and (4) the sabotaging of primary or secondary sources
[280]of Cuban nickel, such as the Nicaro and Moa plants. CIA now has n :
[281]proven internal assets capable of carrying out any of these actions.
[282]The Agency does have external assets capable of undertaking action
[284](2) and (3). It also has an external group capable of undertaking
[286](4) upon the completion of specialized trainin All studies,
[288]oman
[290]including a plan for using overt or covert“Mheans to prevent re-
[292]pore ; institution of thé’ Canad n'supply to the USSR, will be submitted CLK
[294]| by 15 February. It is suggested that consideration be given to
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[303]" asSigning to the economic action group, ch#ired by the Department
[305]of State, responsibility for overt action designed to deny»Cay
[307]| nickel to the USSR.
[309]aa 12, Task 26, p.7. Together with Tasks 27 and 28, Task 26
[311]we constitutes an outline of a plan for a psychological warfare operation.
[312]/ ; These tasks are so closely interrelated that CIA proposes to submit
[313]. by 15 February a single plan dealing with all three tasks.
[315]13. Task 27, p.7. See preceding paragraph.
[317]; sont lf. Task 28, p.7. See paragraph 12,
[319]15. Task 30, p.7. By 15 February CIA will submit an opera-
[321]“etscneteeconnnnnsonninininntnncitin,
[322]tional schedule dedling witf/the sabotage of (1) shipping in Cuban 2
[324]waters and harbors, (2) Cuban transport facilities, (3) communications
[326]facilities, (4) equipment for the refining of petroleum, (5) facili-
[328]1 see at ais 28 NS
[330]ties for producing and distributing power, (6) industry, (7) food
[331]aupplies, (8) key military and police installations and materiel
[332]The schedule will also include the disruption of military and police ‘
[334]communi eons and harassment of military and police training and
[336]{ pérsonnel. inten erento
[338]a 16 Task 31, p.8. This deadline will be met.
[340]S. ADDITIONAL UNDERTARINGS
[341]The following commients are keyed to Sections D throush ™,
[343]Part 1V (pp. 3 and 4) of the program review.
[344]2b.
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[351]ly.
[353]Section D, p.3.
[355]Six men,
[357]to form the initial nucleus,
[359]have been assessed in depth. Further assessment of candidates
[361]inside and outside Cuba is
[363]in Progress,
[365]and it is expected that ten
[367]vA
[370]RN
[372]of these will be recruited by,
[374]ebruary,
[376]18. Section E, p.3
[378]Selected as suitable can
[380]Of resistance because
[382]o date fifteen locations have been
[384]Peon
[386]of (1) the Presence
[388]there of Broups among which there is Patent or incipient unrest,
[390](2) the Presence of Strategic and tactical targets for use or deacti.
[392]vation,
[394]In order of Priority, the fifteen centers are Havana, Cam
[396]Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, Matanzas,
[398]Escambray Mountains, Holguin, Siantago de Cubs
[400]’ Baracoa, Pinar del Rio, Manzanillo, and Colon
[402]19 Section F, p.3.
[404]and (3) Proximity to Potential unconventional Warfare areas.
[406]aguey,
[408]Cardenas, Sancti Spiritus, the
[410]Ciego de Avila,
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[422]conducted propa
[424]In support of si? e's efforts CIA has
[426]& Operations,
[428]demonstratio
[430]Costa Rica, eu
[432]G
[434]ador, Guaternala, Mexico,
[438]and Venezuela,
[440]eon
[442]_
[444]ection H. op
[446]n Argentina, Bolivia,
[448]One TV intrusi
[450]including a number of mass
[452]Brazil, Chile, Colombia
[454]Panama,
[456]on operation has been i
[458]| conducted,
[460]on 16 January. Plans for an
[462]|
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[504]roups with which CLA has exploi
[506]él. Section K, Pp.
[508]table
[510]aCCES8 Or entree includ o
[512]n, labor, students, teachers,
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[515]a7 : jurists,
[516]on a .
[517]+ |.) with labor orga’
[519]and other professional classes... International contacts
[521]ations and members of the Catholic
[523], also be utilized.
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