“atproscr ng esun C 0 inH, 8 • % DRAFT MONGOOSE Minutes 9/6/62 TAP /mm Le 9 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD SUBJECT: Minutes of Meeting of the Special Group (Augmented) on S0 3 178-10003-10090 178-10004-10264 Operation MONGOOSE, 6 September 1962 PRESENT: Mr. McGeorge Bundy; ”
“A3 bs OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON 25, D.C. 13 August 1962 MEMORANDUM FOR WILLIAM HARVEY, CIA !7.ROBERT HURWITCH, STATE GEN. BENJAMIN HARRIS, DEFENSE -< «S BON WILSON, USIA From: Subject: Brig. Gen. Lansdale Alternate Course B Ed Wtye>U.S k . ”
“cument No. No.20 20 OPERATION MONGOOSE PRIORITY OPERATIONS SCHEDULE 21 MAY 30 JUNE 1962 TASK PURPOSE CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITIZED 23JURE98 6(1)(B)(C) OSAI NO OBJECTION AS RASTEN 17 May 1962 CONSIDERATIONS (DOC #214 12 PP PO”
“ng Operation Mongoose thus far and in determining the best course of U.S. action for the future. 156 This Operations report contains the contribution of each major participant, on objectives, on the planning and operational activity to win these objectives, and on future possibil”
“nting the Operational Plan Approved at the Meeting of the Special Group (Augmented) on 16 March 1962 1. Action: This memorandum contains the conclusions reached as a result of the reassessment of the MONGOOSE operational plan, conducted pursuant to your oral instructions to Mr. H”
“TOP SECRET OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. A 73311 0 4 SENSITIVE MEMORANDUM FOR THE SPECIAL GROUP (AUGMENTED) From: Brig. Gen. Lansdale SL 12 March 1962 CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO 8/3 $ Subject: Policy Questions, Operation Mongoose DECLASSIFI”
“TbrD TOP SECRET-NOFORN — T 0, SPECIAL HANDLING IS 0 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON 25, D.C. 13 August 1962 MEMORANDUM FOR WILLIAM HARVEY, CIA ROBERT HURWITCH, STATE CEN. BENJAMIN HARRIS, DEFENSE■ 1«X DON WILSON, USIA From: Brig. Gen. Lansdale Ed S”
“h 1962 1. Action: This memorandum contains the conclusions reached as a result of the reassessment o f the MONGOOSE operational plan, c ondu cted pursuant to your oral instructions to Mr. Helms on 5 April 1962. The recommendations for action are contained in Paragraph 11 below. 2”
“subsidy and support of Cuban exile groups. E. It is recommended that the Mongoose operational mechanism be abolished. F. If you concur in this concept, specific recommendations will be made to you concerning the re-positioning of Task Force W within the DD/P. WILLIAM K. HARV”
“nded. ( ・HARVEY #2 TH E WHITE HOA A i 10 April 1962 迟 MELIORANDUM FOR: THROUGH: SUBJECT: Director of Central Intelligence Deputy Director (Plans) - Operation MONGOOSE Appraisal of Effectiveness and Results which can be Expected from Implementing the Operational Plan Approved at t”
“NW 50955 DocId: 32203768 Page 18 objection to public disclosure No DoD 00 P.L. 102-526, except for creto- pursuant NO OBJECTION PERSONS/ENTITIES: present NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL NorK 2/23/94 22 K 8/10/98 DATES: 2/8/94 CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND”
“16 DATE EXEMPTED? JS RE-REVIEW DATE: 310207037 OKAY TO TRELEASE AS TUEDACTICA [R] ITEM IS RESTRICTED The Department of State has no objection to the release or declassification of this document in full under the provisions of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (”
“SE EASTED STATESURAMEDIC $ OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON 25. D. C. 11 April 1962 203 The Department of State has no objection to the release or declassification of this document in full under the provisions of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (”
“NW 50955 DocId: 32203777 Page 11 As .NO OBJECTION UNCIL exersel NATIONAL SECUHITY/Gou NN 10/5/94 No DoD objection to public disclosure pursuant to P.L. 102-526.6604/ 3/12/94 PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: GENERAL LANSDALE, MCGEORGE BUNDY 4 Sept 1962 MONGOOSE (Pha”
“need for summaries of results "and a statement of future al- boking ternatives open to the .U.S, should be developed." LLoolk into proposal to subsidize. .................. JaponeQuTime McCone-said from thaths ____ ___ ____ ___ — hadhcts ___ experts nformed him - • "from a”
“NW 50955 DocId:32203771 Page 8 NO OBJECTION as NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL excised CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RV 1/6/94 RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT dec 7/12/93 PERSONS/ENTITIES: LANSDALE, - *, 1 DATES: MONGOOSE CATEGORIES: Special Group Augmented”
“13-00000 '**• 6 subsidy and support of Cuban exile groups. E. It is recommended that the Mongoose operational w*4qs0 mechanism be abolished. F. If you concur in this concept, specific recommendations will be made to you concerning the re-positioning of Task Force i-ermea”
“Rejection of a Suggestion That a Propaganda Campaign, Including Rewards for Assassination, Be Explored On January 30, 1962, the representative of the Defense Department and the Joint Chiefs on the Mongoose Working Group forwarded for Lansdale’s con sideration "a concept f”
“IVl VLOILI Mr. Clifford said he had run across the phrase, MONGOOSE, on several occasions, and asked what this involved. The DCI then explained briefly the MONGOOSE project and how it was set up. He said that after his discussion with the President and Attorney General last f”
“- 25 - Bundy, speaking to the Group, 11 made it clear that this did not constitute a blanket approval of every item in the paper, and that sensitive ones such as sabotage, for example, will have to be presented in more detail on a case by case basis. 79 (Memo of Special ”
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“14-00000 MONGOOSE (Operation) 1. BLAKEY Request, 12 Sept 77 (OLC #77-3890) ...this will also confirm the oral request for all Agency files on the following.... Operations "MONGOOSE” and ”COBRA”... 2 O/SECURITY MEmo No RECORD (GAMBINO, 19 OCT 77) to OLC”
“BP 3°CAlREp Eon %a^>1^ d -40- Mongoose that "you're in a combat situation where we have been given full command". Secretary of Defense McNamara confirmed that "we were hysterical about Castro at the time of the Bay of Pigs and thereafter". Many of the plans that were dis”
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“ci- pant is appended, to ensure that you have access to the exact reporting as submitted. OBJECTIVES As desired by higher authority on 30 November 1961, the U.S. undertook a special effort "in order to help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime." After a review of operational plann”
“NW 50955 DocId: 32203777 Page 33 NO OBJECTION NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITIZED 3 DEC 93 JC (1)(A) PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: Gen. Lansdale Lt. Col. Patchell Gen. Johnson 31 Oct 19”
“"Operation MONGOOSE", dated 5 March 1962, on file in Gen Craig’s office 4 Enclosure A TOP SECRET-SPECIAL HANDLINGNOFORN-”
“the MONGOOSE program. Mr. McNamara questioned whether we cannot separate the building up of agent assets within Cuba from actions that would hurt the U.S. in the eyes of world opinion. This led to the sug / gestion by General Taylor that we should consider changing the over”
“subsidy and support of Cuban exile groups. i* Xt is recommended that the Mongoose operational mechanism be abolished. F. If you concur in this concept, specific recommendation will be made to you concerning the re-positioning of Tysk Force *within the DD/Psy-; r° WILLIAM K”
“13-00000 6JAMA FROM * COORDINATOR CUBAN AFFAIRS TO THE SPECIAL GROUP SUBJECT: Standby Capability for the Launching of Propaganda Leaflet Balloons 1. The purpose of this memorandum is #» present for your consideration and approval, a proposal modify the current status ”
“estimates, (continued negotiating for British • helphin con- taminating locamotive lubricants, two teams of agent's dispatched to Cuba approved for March 16-31, 1962, develop intelligence potential of Cuban "colonies" in U.S., develop additional interrogation centers in other ”
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“ssile crisis, the Special Group (Augmented) was disbanded. ( ・HARVEY #2 THE WHITE HOA A i 10 April 1 962 迟 MELIORANDUM FOR: THROUGH: SUBJECT: Director of Central Intelligence Deputy Director (Plans) - Operation MONGOOSE Appraisal of Effectiveness and Results which can be Expected”
“11 6/13/75 14 August 1962 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Plans) SUB JECT Operation MONGOOSE 1. Action. None. This memorandum is for your information. 2. Reference is made to our conversation On 13 August 1962, concerning the memorandum of that date from eneral Lansda”
“Mongoose, designed to culminate in October, 1962, with an "open revolt and overthrow of the Communist regime." (Lansdale Ex. 11, Program Review of the Cuba Project, 2/20/62, p. 2). As one of the operations for the "Resistance" phase proposed for September, 1962, Lansdale ”
“NW 50955 DocId: 32203777 Page 12: 810 ^N SSM B- NO OBJECTION AS excised NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL 0C 0 Non 11/5/94 PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: BUNDY, GENERAL DECKER, MR. MURROW 9/6/62 Special Group Augmented RFK, GENERAL LANSDALE, MARTIN MONGOOSE GENERAL H”
“50955 D o c Id : 3 2 2 8 1 8 4 1 10 Oral 0 .rt Page 4 Co6039e 2s) or3 -K ZEU 94 02 00 CAN 2 Chle 18 9- PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: Special Group Augmented LANSDALE, I MONGOOSE, Mar 13, 1962 CUBAN OCCURRENCE: Y, Card T of Z The planning for Operation MON”
“NW 50955 DocId:32203777 Page 8 AL CIA on RECTION MOS CATOAPOUDEl DEGLR as THIS 099* Dec 93 • REERSEED - 10 Je NATIONAL BIECTT COUNCIL NOSECUR PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: Gen. Lansdale William K. Harvey 8/7/62 SPECIAL GROUP AUGMENTED OPERATION MONGOOSE O”
“HARVEY 3 5 Ver Janie 2x18 7-0-75 MONGOOSE 18 10 August 1962 1 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD SUBJECT: Minutes of Meeting of Special Group (Augmented) on Operation MONGOOSE, 10 August 1962 PRESENT: State: Mr. Rusk, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Martin, Mr. Goodwin, Mr. Hurwitch # White”
“first step the develop ment of leadership elements, and "a very necessary political basis" among the Cubans opposed to Castro, before any large actions began. (Lansdale, p. 11). At the same time, Lansdale- sought to develop "means to infiltrate Cuba successfully" and to ”
“excluding the participation of other Agency members within the strict security guidelines laid down by the President. Further, McCone directed the Board of National Estimates and the DD/I to undertake a continuing evaluation of MONGOOSE, viewing such precautions as a major st”
“operations representative. ^W / SOURCE: Memorandum for the Special Group Augmented STAFF: from Lansdale re: Operation MONGOOSE, June 27, 1962 (00399- di Genova 00400) DATE: FILE: July 1, 1975”
“heads of these departments and agencies are responsible for performance through normal command channels to higher authority. _ (Guideline for Operation Mon goose, March 14, 1962, p.2) * The initial draft of these. Guidelines had referred to the President but was later ame”
“- 26 - At the same time, however, the record shows that the Special Group Aug- mented turned away from proposed sabotage arid similar violent action throughout 1962, including the period of the Missile Crisis. (See p. above.) Thus, Helms noted in a memorandum of a meeting”
“this has been a remarkably quiet operation, well within the "noise" and "visibility" limits imposed. Higher authority has been kept informed of progress through the Special Group (Augmented), by frequent reports. The Special Group has provided policy guidance, as required, in Pha”
“A. A gradual but substantial reduction in the expenditures and personnel of Task Force W. B. Consideration of the re-positioning of Task Force within the Clandestine Service, possibly as a major component of, the WH Division under different direction. C. The abolition of the”
“Helms Ex Z. OV 12 — 6/13/75 25a 13 C 0% 14 August 1962 MAR MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director (Plans) 1 W SUBJECT :Operation MONGOOSE 1. Action. None. This memorandum is for your information. 2. Reference is made to our onversation on 13 August 1962, concerning the”
“scent 19 TOP SECRET ‘ ra te Fa 14/34 Phone (Area 202) 544-6000 1 decisions. 2 Senator Baker. Thank you, sir. 3 Do you have an independent recollection of the meeting 4 or the encounter with President Kennedy in connection with 5 MONGOOSE? 6 Mr. Bundy. Not a sp”
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“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: .Special Group Augmented LANSDALE,’ 1 MONGOOSE Mar 13, 1962 CUBA Y, Card 1 of 2 OCCURRENCE: The planning for Operation MONGOOSE was prepared on a format of separate -planning—for-each-department and-agency-involved.—Revised-planning-alon”