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104-10315-10015 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (09/07/1961)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch78900 and id is 1 raw text is: '104-10315-10015  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
TSP SECR~ET
7 September 1961
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Consideration of the Cuban Matter by the j412
Special Group
1. Attached are my detailed notes made while reading the
minutes of the Special Group yesterday. The 12 pp. paper that
WHA/ submitted to the Taylor Committee, with two appendices, is
also attached in order to facilitate study of the -matter. That
paper purported to quote the minutes only with reference to the
strike force concept. (It should be replaced in the two WH/4
bound volumes of papers furnished the Taylor Committee, at '
Part FF.)
2. I call attention to the following new matters, which
suggests a number of points that should be reflected in my draft  --`
report of 31 August 1961:
a. Parrott was the Assistant to DD/P for Executive
Branch Matters (DD/P/EBM). He not only acted as secretary of
Special Group, and briefed the DCI beforehand, but took an active
role in the discussions, at least from time to time, i.e., at
meetings of 8/11, 9/1, 9/8 and 11/16. This introduces still
another non-operator echelon in the decision-making, between DCI
and Chief, WH/4.
b. These minutes show the extremely detailed reporting
by CIA to the Special Group and requests for approval of individual
operations, i.e ., individual air drops.
c. Note that the detailed reporting to the Special Group
was almost always done by Bissell or Barnes, not by the DCI.
d. Note Adm. Burke's statement that Navy ideas were to
have 50,000 U.S. military for intervention in Cuba. (3/14/60 meeting)
Query: was this statement in he back of the minds of CIA operators          --
in going ahead, i.e., . he Cuban Brigade was only a spearhead   I
for (possible) follow-up by U.S. forces? Note in late meetirgs
considerable additional talk of overt intervention.

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