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104-10102-10235 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/0000)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch71929 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-1O12-1235~ 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 .









                                       OPERATION LEONAWDO-

                        - .- OBJECTIVES:

                                      To establish contact with elements
                  within the  Government, Rebel Army and Militia, in order  to

                  Panalize into  action their present. anti-communist feeling
                  and Induc  those who  maintain a passive attitude but who

                  are potentially susceptible  to turn against the Regime,

                  to act now.. The future plan  of action and the size and de-

          -       velopment of the present operation  would be determined af-

                  ter first contacts are made and  information thus gathered,
                  is evaluated. . However, Leonardo should be considered as

                  merely x first step towards coordination  of anti-Castro

                  elements within the.Cuban Government, for producing  an in-

                  ternal upheaval.

                                     It is the opinion of people  with con-
                  tacts in Cuba, - that the moment to act is now, because the

               - conditions  for action are ripening steadily.  Reliable  in-

                 formation  from the Island points out .to the gradual inter-

                 nal softening  of the Castro Regime, to tensions existing
                 among its members,  and to the effect President Kennedy's

                 words had  in the highest governmental Cuban circles who
                 are said to have  acknowledged with sympathy his phrase

                 that I am confident  that all over the. island of Cuba, in

                 the Government itself,  in the Army, in the Militias, there

                 are.miny who  ....have viewed with dismay the destruction

                 of freedom faith and who are  determined to restore that


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