Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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SECRET7 March 1962 McCone presents Carter to President Kennedy; Carter named DDCI on 9 March.30 March 1962 Robert Amory, Jr. resigns as Deputy Director/ Intelligence.1 April 1962 Office of General Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel, and Office of Comptroller moved to Office of the DCI; John Brose named Comptroller.10 April 1962 Kirkpatrick named to new position as Executive Director.23 April 1962 Ray S. Cline named DD/I3 May 1962 Jack Earman becomes Inspector General; Walter Elder named as Executive Assistant to the DCI.15 May 1962 DCI attends meeting of National Security Council with Congressional leaders on American role in Laos.3 June 1962 McCone travels to Far East until 17 June; develops basis position paper on situation in Southeast Asia.4 June 1962 Albert D. Wheelon, Jr. named Assistant Director/Scientific Intelligence.SECRET
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# SECRET29 June 1962 McCone meets with the Bureau of the Budget to review the projected intelligence community budget.10 July 1962 McCone meets with Frank G. Wisner on latter's future.12 July 1962 McCone discusses consultant status with Allen W. Dulles.20 July 1962 President Kennedy briefed in detail on information derived from Anatole Golitsen.27 July 1962 McCone becomes immersed in nuclear testing issue and the role of intelligence in the event of a treaty banning nuclear testing in the atmosphere.28 July 1962 McCone meets with [Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos.]10 August 1962 At Cuban meeting, McCone makes first explicit statement outside Agency on the possibility of offensive missiles in Cuba.10 August 1962 Najeeb Halaky proposes covert development of super-sonic transport.21 August 1962 McCone warns senior government officials about offensive missiles in Cuba.
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SECRET21 August 1962 McCone attends meeting to discuss intensified operations against North Vietnam.22 August 1962 McCone advises President Kennedy about possibility of offensive missiles in Cuba; also on 23 August with senior advisers present.23 August 1962 McCone leaves Washington until 24 Sept.29 August 1962 McCone marries Mrs. Paul Piggott in Seattle; SAMS in Cuba photographed.7,10,13,16 and 19 September 1962 McCone sends cables reiterating his concern about missiles`in Cuba.24 September 1962 McCone meets with Robert Kennedy on ransoming brigade prisoners in Cuba.27 September 1962 McCone meets with President Ayub of Pakistan in New York.4 October 1962 McCone urges Special Group to direct U-2 coverage of Cuba.9 October 1962 Special Group approves U-2 coverage.10. October 1962 President Kennedy briefed on IL-28 crates; Kennedy orders limitations on dissemination of information about offensive weapons.
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SECRET12 October 1962 SAC takes over U-2 overflights of Cuba.14 October 1962 U-2 overflies San Cristobal MRBM site.15 October 1962 NPIC identifies MRBMS16 October 1962 McCone notified; returns from Seattle.17 October 1962 McCone develops position paper on Cuba.18 October 1962 IRBM sites identified.18 October 1962 NSC Executive Committee divides into two study groups to consider "fast" and "slow" courses of action.19 October 1962 Special National Intelligence Estimate concludes that USSR would not risk general war over Cuba.19 October 1962 McCone develops position on measures beyond a blockade.20 October 1962 Chinese Communists attack India21 October 1962 McCone briefs Vice-President Johnson on Cuba.21 October 1962 Briefers go to London, Paris, Bonn, Ottawa.22 October 1962 Meeting with Congressional leadership just prior to President Kennedy's speech.23 October 1962 President Kennedy signs blockade proclamation.SECRET
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# SECRET24 October 1962 Soviet ships near Cuba stop or turn.27 October 196228 October 1962 Messages from USSR show willingness to avoid confrontation.29 October 1962 McCone orders post-mortem on handling of intelligence.2 November 1962 Cuban refugee reports on missiles in cave[^5].5 November 1962 President Kennedy requests review of intelligence handling.9 November 1962 McCone meets with Rusk to protest nibbling away at approved operational programs.14 November 1962 PFIAB requests post-mortem on intelligence handling.17 November 1962 Kennedy and Eisenhower meet at McCone's residence.20 November 1962 Kennedy announces lifting of the blockade.4 December 1962 McCone meets with Gilpatric to discuss Air Force view of NRO.17 December 1962 Kennedy approves concept of covert support to Congo government.[^5]: ![Footnote 5 photo description]SECRET
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SECRET27 December 1962 Report on intelligence community's handling of intelligence relating to Cuban missile crisis completed for PFIAB.2 January 1963 NPIC moves into Building 213.3 January 1963 McCone meets with McNamara and Gilpatric to discuss A-11, SWITCHBACK, policy towards Cuba.10 January 1963 Special Group reviews reconniassance over Cuba.10 January 1963 McGeorge Bundy discusses DOD-CIA friction; raises Kennedy's concern over Chinese Communist nuclear potential.17 January 1963 McCone meets with Italian Prime Minister Fanfani.21 January 1963 Meeting with President Kennedy on surfacing A-11.27 January 1963 McCone meets with Chiefs of Station in Panama until 29 January.30 January 1963 Col. Delsany, SDECE, admits charges of KGB penetrations and French espionage against US nuclear energy program.
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# SECRET31 January 1963 McCone attends meeting with Kennedy to discuss European problems.1 February 1963 McCone develops basic position paper on Europe.6 February 1963 Public statement by DCI on Cuba before Stennis sub-committee; DOD public briefing.10 February 1963 McCone travels to Paris and London until 17 February.28 February 1963 McCone talks with Bundy on lack of policy towards Cuba and problems in the Middle East.4 March 1963 Meeting with President Kennedy on Cuban reconnaissance gap.11 March 1963 Meeting with President Kennedy on the Middle East with special reference to Yemen.13 March 1963 McCone meets with the President and then the NSC to discuss Latin America and policy towards Cuba.13 March 1963 McCone and Gilpatric sign new NRO agreement.SECRET
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SECRET21 March 1963McCone meets with Brockway McMillan, new Director/NRO.25 March 1963Meeting with President Kennedy to discuss special Agency operation aimed at exposing the KGB.26 March 1963Meeting with Dean Rusk to discuss the Middle East with special reference to Israel's nuclear potential.29 March 1963Executive Committee meeting on raids by Cuban exiles,9 April 1963McCone meets with Stewart Alsop for general background briefing.11 April 1963McCone develops basic position paper on responsibility for reconnaissance over denied areas.11 April 1963Special Group discusses sabotage operations against Cuba.15 - 17 April 1963President Kennedy, the Attorney-General, and the Secretary of State briefed on special operation against French intelligence service.
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SECRET20 April 1963 At NSC meeting on Laos, President Kennedyrequests study of increased pressuresagainst North Vietnam.23 April 1963 Clark Clifford succeeds Killian as Chairman,PFIAB.25 April 1963 President approves low-level reconnaissanceflights over Cuba.25 April 1963 Scoville submits resignation as DD/Reffective 14 June 196326 April 1963 McCone travels to Paris, Rome, andFrankfurt until 8 May.7 May 1963 Penkovsky put on trial in Moscow,9 May 1963 NSC meeting on US support for India.13-14 May 1963 McCone meets with Rusk to discuss supportfor Mondlane14 May 1963 McCone meets with Clark Clifford.15 May 1963 McCone meets with President Kennedy todiscuss PenkovskySECRET
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SECRET18 May 1963McCone develops position paper on Haiti.21 May 1963McCone attends three meetings with President Kennedy; low-level reconnaissance over Cuba; high-yield, large megatonnage nuclear weapons; Haiti.3 June 1963McCone develops position paper for discussion with Gilpatric on Air Force push to take over all reconnaissance.7 June 1963McCone presents his view of the world in speech to National War College.14 June 1963McCone meets with Rusk to discuss relations with France.19 June 1963McCone attends three meetings with President Kennedy; the Profumo case; Laos; Cuba.21 June 1963McCone attends meeting with President Kennedy on British Guiana.21 June 1963McCone meets with Rusk to discuss covert program on Cuba.25 June 1963McCone develops position paper on the role of intelligence in a nuclear test ban treaty.
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13-0000026 June 1963 McCone notes Roy Tod's paper on an inventoryof intelligence community assets.1 July 1963 DCI's Scientific Advisory Board establishedunder Dr. Kinzel.9 July 1963 President Kennedy briefed on mosaic of ["Israel"]gas bomb in Yemen, and findings of thePurcell Panel on reconnaissance satellites.10 July 1963 McCone writes McNamara on need to reviewintelligence community programs.21 July 1963 McCone meets with Rusk to discuss DeGaulle.23 July 1963 McCone attends meeting with President Kennedyto hear John J. McCloy report on theMiddle East.23 July 1963 Sgt. Dunlap commits suicide.30 July 1963 McCone attends meeting with PresidentKennedy on Laos.5 August 1963 DD/R re-constituted as DD/Science andTechnology with Wheelon as head.
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5, August 1963 Nuclear test ban treaty signed in Moscow.16 August 1963 McCone presents position on test ban treaty to Stennis sub-committee.21 August 1963 McCone attends meeting with President Kennedy to discuss actions by Diem government against the Buddhests.24 August 1963 Department of State Telegram 243 sent to Saigon.26 August 1963 Saigon station officers in contact with Generals Khiem and Minh.31 August 1963 John Richardson cables his view that there will be no coup.2 September 1963 McCone reviews two papers on Diem government; one by William Colby; one by George Carver.4 September 1963 McCone meets with McNamara and Rusk to discuss terms of reference for review of intelligence community programs.9 September 1963 John Bross appointed Deputy to the DCI for National Intelligence Programs Evaluation.
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10 September 1963 McCone develops position paper for meetings with President Kennedy and McGeorge Bundy on Vietnam.11 September 1963 Huntington D. Sheldon cables his views from Saigon; McCone asks Agency experts to answer six basic questions on Vietnam.16 September 1963 Ambassador Lodge requests Lansdale as replacement for Richardson,19 September 1963 McCone writes Lodge about COS Saigon.19 September 1963 Colby briefs Special Group on re-vamping Agency operations in the Far East.20 September 1963 McCone briefs McGeorge Bundy on plans to re-organize Saigon station and a covert program aimed at the KGB.20 September 1963 McCone develops basic position paper on National Reconnaissance Program.24 September 1963 McCone develops basic position paper on Agency role in Vietnam.
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SECRET3 October 1963 McCone asks John Richardson to return toWashington on temporary duty; Dave Smithacting COS Saigon.5 October 1963 After hearing trip report by McNamara andTaylor, President Kennedy states publiclythat war in Vietnam can be won by the endof 1965; McCone takes pessimistic view.7 October 1963 McCone meets with John Richardson.9 October 1963 President Kennedy answers two questions atpress conference about Richardson and theAgency.16 October 1963 Far East Division develops basic paper onre-organization of Saigon station.17 October 1963 McCone discusses role of Air Force and nationalintelligence assets with Gilpatric.25 October 1963 McCone develops position paper for meetingwith President Kennedy on coup plotting inVietnam.1 November 1963 Diem government overthrown by Vietnamesegenerals.SECRET
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SECRET3 November 1963 President Kennedy orders Colby to go to Saigon as Presidential emissary.12 November 1963 McCone, Helms meet with President Kennedy for basic discussion of Cuba; President is shown Cuban rifle captured in Venezuela.18 November 1963 McCone attends conference in Honolulu on Vietnam until 21 November.18 November 1963 Executive Director and Comptroller functions merged under Kirkpatrick.22 November 1963 President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas.23 November 1963 McCone meets with President Johnson alone.24 November 1963 McCone meets with President Johnson and Lodge on Vietnam.28 November 1963 McCone meets with President Johnson who asks that McCone play an active role as a policy advisor.29 November 1963 McCone attends meeting with President Johnson on A-11.SECRET
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SECRET5 December 1963 President Johnson holds first NSC meeting;McCone presents intelligence briefing.6 December 1963 McCone meets with President Johnson to discussCOS, Saigon; Peer de Silva named; Johnsonsends message to Lodge.7 December 1963 McCone meets with President Johnson to discusschanging the image of the DCI and CIA.12 December 1963 McCone meets with the Bureau of the Budgetto review the Agency's covert action program.13 December 1963 McCone meets with McNamara and Gilpatric todiscuss the need for economy in intelligenceoperations.13 December 1963 McCone meets with Rusk and Harriman who approveconcept of releasing information on Sovieteconomy.16 December 1963 McCone visits Saigon to install de Silva -until 20 December.21 December 1963 McCone presents his views on Vietnam toPresident Johnson.
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27 December 1963 McCone meets with President Johnson at LBJ Ranch; Johnson reiterates his views on McCone's policy role.31 December 1963 McCone meets with General Eisenhower in Pasadena and again on 2 January 1964 to discuss President Johnson's budget plans.4 January 1964 McCone meets with President Johnson at LBJ Ranch to review meetings with General Eisenhower.7 January 1964 McCone attends meeting to hear General Krulak discuss proposals for intensified operations against North Vietnam.9 January 1964 Thomas Dale of *The New York Times* publishes article on Soviet economy with attribution to CIA; other newsmen briefed.9 January 1964 McCone attends meetings with President Johnson on Panama.13 January 1964 McCone develops position paper on how plan to release information on Soviet economy was mis-handled.
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SECRET14 January 1964 McCone attends meetings on Robert Kennedy's trip to meet Sukarno.14 January 1964 Cyrus Vance succeeds Roswell Gilpatric effective 28 January.18 January 1964 McCone travels to Paris, London, Rome, Madrid, Bonn - until 1 February.7 February 1964 McCone attends meetings on Cuban fishing boats and Guantanamo water supply.11 February 1964 McCone develops position paper on reconnaissance after Air Force deployment to fly U-2s out of Clark Field.28 February 1964 McCone develops position paper in preparation for trip to Vietnam.28 February 1964 McCone attends meeting with President Johnson on surfacing A-11.4 March 1964 William Bundy succeeds Roger Hilsman as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.4 March 1964 USIB re-organized.
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13-00000SECRET4-5 March 1964McCone meets with General Eisenhower who discusses relations with de Gaulle.6 March 1964McCone travels to Vietnam until 13 March; McCone dissents on McNamara's trip report; reports policy disagreement separately to President Johnson.17 March 1964NSC meeting on Vietnam.1 April 1964McCone develops basic position paper on NRP for use with Baker panel of PFIAB.2 April 1964At evening seminar, McCone develops position paper on operations against North Vietnam.7 April 1964McGeorge Bundy develops position paper on Covert Program Against Cuba for use in meeting with President Johnson.22 April 1964McCone talks to McGeorge Bundy about lack of direct briefings of the President by the DCI.29 April 1964McCone talks to President Johnson about lack of direct access.2 May 1964NSC meeting on Cuban overflights.SECRET
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# SECRET5 May 1964 McCone sets forth position on "The Invisible Government."5 May 1964 McCone attends meeting with President Johnson on Cuba and Laos; remains for Tuesday lunch meeting with the President, McNamara, Taylor and Bundy.6 May 1964 McCone attends meeting with President Johnson to consider General Khanh's statements about war footing and march north.14 May 1964 McNamara's report on trip to Vietnam discusses bombing North Vietnam.16 May 1964 McCone gives President Johnson Agency estimate on action against North Vietnam.18 May 1964 At meeting on Laos and Vietnam, Rusk raises question of when does the United States commit troops.24 May 1964 Meetings all day with President Johnson on Southeast Asia.25 May 1964 William Bundy paper on Courses of Action on Southeast Asia.
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SECRET28 May 1964McCone goes to Honolulu for meeting on Vietnam until 3 June.4,5,6,7 JuneMcCone attends meetings with President Johnson on Laos with the President asking, "What comes next?"6 June 1964McGeorge Bundy and Michael Forrestal raise with McCone the possibility of an Agency program along pre-SWITCHBACK lines.11 June 1964McCone develops position paper on Southeast Asia.11 June 1964McCone writes McGeorge Bundy about PFIAB report on NRP,15 June 1964McCone meets with President Johnson to suggest that McCone leave his post; President asks that he remain until after the election.17 June 1964McCone develops position paper on NRP.30 June 1964McCone issues guidance for developing requirements for reconnaissance satellites.
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# SECRETCIA Internal Use OnlyAccess Controlled by DDOHISTORICAL STAFFCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYWESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION1946 - 1965DDO HP 324byDavid R. McLeatApproved:David A. PhillipsChief, Western Hemisphere DivisionDirectorate of OperationsDecember 1973VOLUME ICopy No. 1: WHCopy No. 2: O/DDOSECRET
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SECRETLatin American officers in Panama, and also supplied material for the US Army Intelligence School to use in training foreign students on Communism. Nine CIA officers lectured at a Fort Holabird course for senior Latin American officers in 1961, capping their presentation by producing a Soviet defector who spoke on the Soviet intelligence service. [^1]CIA maintained a station in Havana throughout 1960 but faced increasing operational difficulties--some of CIA's own making. Probably the outstanding flap was the capture of three TSD technicians, caught in the act of planting a microphone in the New China News Agency office. An analysis of this operation, made when the technicians were released 18 months later, showed that they had ignored many of the basic rules of tradecraft. On the other hand, the Cubans had given them only perfunctory interrogations. [^2]In 1960 the Havana Station consisted of [^3] James A. Noel, chief of station; Arthur Avignon, deputy; about six case officers and as many secretaries. Life was unpleasant; Castro agents shadowed American Embassy personnel, monitored their telephone conversations, and tried to pump their children about what- 233 -SECRET[^1]: 267/[^2]: 268/[^3]: A.
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SECRETdaddy was doing. As relations between the UnitedStates and Cuba deteriorated the station concentratedon support for the Cuban invasion then being planned,and on developing stay-behind assets. Frank Belsitoand later Ralph Seehafer were designated as "stay-behind officers" and regularly reported on a dozenor so agents and nets, a few of which survived thestation's closing.*The break in diplomatic relations with Cubawas predictable, and during the fall of 1960 Embassydependents were moving themselves and their house-hold effects back to the United States. Avignonmade a special trip on the Havana-Key West ferryto take out his personal car, silverware, and a$1,500 violin. Station files not absolutely essen-tial were crated and shipped back to Headquarters.Case officers were working 15-hour days, seven-dayweeks.When the break came, the Embassy had threedays' notice that it would close on 4 January 1961.The CIA station had just installed a new incinerator* One stay-behind agent, AMFOX-1, was still report-  ing in 1973 but WH Division believed he had been  doubled.- 234 -SECRET
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SECRETand managed to burn what files it could not ship toKey West on the attache aircraft. When they werenot burning papers or smashing technical equipment,case officers were caching radios or making advancepayments to agents left behind.On 4 January station personnel met at theEmbassy, rode in convoy to the ferry, and sailed tothe States. A few, like William J. Murray, had main-tained houses until the end and lost everything inthem.[^1]This was the period when Fidel Castro, as yetunrestrained by his more cautious and practical Sovietadvisors, was busily stirring up trouble in theWestern Hemisphere and popularizing the phrase"exporting the revolution." A typical target wasHonduras, the poorest and most primitive country inCentral America. CIA's reaction was also typicalof the "nation-building" and "institution-building"approach to countering subversion.When Castro began his propaganda campaign in[^1]: Two years later Congress authorized the Departmentof State to reimburse its employees the depreciatedvalue of furnishings left in Cuba. Payments fellfar short of replacement costs.- 235 -SECRET
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of assets commencing with a close per-sonal relationship between the stationchief and the President of Mexico, high-level telephone taps, photographic sur-veillance, unilateral intelligence as-sets and a broad scale of covert actioncapabilities.Within a week of the inspector's visitFrederick W. Cole was relieved as chief of stationin La Paz, partly because of comments made by Ambas-sador Ben Stephansky, a former labor attache who hadnot worked closely with CIA. Lyle T. Shannon, COS,Panama City, left WH Division (perhaps coincidentally)a few months after the Inspector General had describedhim thus:The chief of station is a GS-18 whohas served in many different posts inthe Agency. He has been in Panama forabout five years. A wide gap in humanrelations exists between the chief ofstation and his staff. He is coldlyaloof and is reputed to brook no dif-ference of opinion even on questionsof operational procedures. He is ahard-driving administrator. His tal-ents along this line are granted evenby the Ambassador, who bluntly dis-credits his ability as an intelligenceofficer. [^275]Although the separate Task Force W (TFW) wasnot officially established until 8 March 1962, theplanning and execution of the Bay of Pigs operation- 242 -SECRET[^275]: /
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SECRETwere for all practical purposes conducted indepen-dently of WH Division and therefore are not coveredin this history. There was an informal but under-stood shortcut in the chain of command; basic deci-sions were made at the DDP, DCI, or Presidentiallevel. Although some of the key personnel were de-tailed from WH Division, the Cuban Headquarters unitwas in another building and no one pretended thatJ. C. King was running the show.Jacob D. Esterline, a veteran WH Divisionofficer who later became deputy chief of the divi-sion, was chief of the Cuban unit during the buildupand invasion attempt, and took his orders from theDDP. When the Cuban unit was made officially autono-mous as TFW and later as the Special Affairs Staff(SAS), it was headed first by William K. Harvey andthen by Desmond FitzGerald, Bruce B. Cheever andJohn L. Hart, none of whom had previous service inWH Division. It was not until 1965 that the Cubanunit really lost its autonomy and again came firmlyunder WH Division.Actual expenditures in FY 1961 illustratethe disparity between Cuban operations and the- 243 -SECRET