476-10041-10135 JFK Assassination System Date: 5/5/2016 Identification Form . qm cereus CEC SS SSSShsnvnnseennnsennsennnstoh 5ST EEE EEE EI Agency Information AGENCY: NARA RECORD NUMBER: = 176-1001 1-10135 RECORD SERIES: NSF AGENCY FILENUMBER: 1 Docurnent Information ORIGINATOR: WH FROM: TO: TITLE: MAIN POINTS TO CONSIDER DATE: 10/26/1962 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : _ ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Top Secret ~ RESTRICTIONS: 1C CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 05/08/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: UPON AGENCY REVIEW COMMENTS : NSF:M&M:SPECIAL GROUP(AUGMENTED). 10/62-12/62:BOX 319:PENDING NLK-90-51
TEP SEGRE pee Mr. ‘McGeorge Bundy | SENSITIVE | ShetirEp MUL» (1 07 WAY: OPERATION MONGOOSE Main Pointe to Consider 26 Gctober 1962 1. What is the Policy Objective? We needa sharp focus on exactly what we hope to get from Mongoose now. This will determine how best to employ these unique U.S. resources -- either to support ¥.S. military operations or directly to commit against the Gommunist regime immediately, . Is the end objective the removal of the Castro /Gommunist regime or to bring it. to its knees? Should Mongoose help generate a popular revolt with the probable need for overt U.S. military help as the regime moves in to crush it? Or, is the aim that of maximum harasement, to make Guba a maximum burden for the Bloc? Undoubtedly, most people in the world now expect us to move towards removing the Castro/Cemmuniat regime. Certainly the | - Gubans in exile and jaside Cuba, who are the main covert asaeta of - GIA, now expect this policy geal ae the price of risking their lives. 2. Mongoose Actions a. Harassment of and resistance to Guban regime. Statue: 3 teama (2- to 5-man) en route by small craft today. 6 teams by submarine, starting tomorrow. One . more team being readied to go in by emall craft. 10 more teams being readied te go by eulmnarine ehertly. One team now in Oriente and one team in Pinar del Rio. All teams have W/T, arma, explosives. OK _b. Gubsn-owned shipping (22 ships). Sink in Cuban or Bloe ‘ . ports, or high seas. Sabotage cargoes. Make crews inoperative. Status: ClA has ll aesete aboard Cuban- owned shipe. Action ordere have gone te Hamburg. for action. Other action pending. . \e . Propagends delivered to Guba by balloen from ship. Status: GIA dose not have capability yet. SENSITIVE aa . \ TOP SECRET ns ee i EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC
FOP Sebi! SENSITIVE d. Major acts of sabotage against Listed targeta of ore production, POL storage, power plante, transport, communications. | Statue Teams being trained for majar sabotage were made part part of teams now being sent in by gubmarine. (SAM sites ds.Soviet technicians are not targets.) eS _ @. hinor ects of sabotage, by all Cuban people. Requires delivery of instructions, of how to do it, te Cuban people. Status: No current capability indicated by CLA. Teams | going in for aay purpose at this time should have this agsign- ment. f. Sabotage of sugar production and delivery. Status: Noe current capability. Now trying to act against shipments of jute bagging. - g. Befect "name" personages of regime, to fraction the eepimne, to expleit for political and peycholegical onde. . Status: Minor diplomate being defected. Actions with majos Poraanages unsuccedeful eo far. Special effort ts - h. Help the Cubans te 5 help themselves. Thie means greater J.S. cupport of Guban groupe to take actions in Cuba. Status: Under study. No firm plan yet for doing: i. ' Demonstrations af ‘workers and farmoys in Cubs, in Latia America, against the Gactro-Gommunict regime. Such ee in Cubs would ahitxe the regime to ita core. Status: International Longshereman's Asseciation now - gefusing work. Cuban cargoecs. No means yet for demonatrya- \y tens insice Guba. Special State /GIA. action is indicated. j. Expose sesponaible individuals in the Castye/Gemmuniat vegime, a8 @ mesas towards relaxing police -state contrels. Indiet “seoplés criminals" for Justice efter the government is returned te ‘\ the people. . SENSITIVE a . jap SER = ttt!
TGP SEGRE SENSITIVE 3 - Status: No activity on epecifie aperation. However, J GIA now completing “black list" of known Cuben intelligence and security officials, ia support of possible U.S. military operation, About 5, 600 names, k. Give Cuban resistance popular symbols. Songs. Visual. Status: No song yet. Visual eymbol is "gusano lbre. * Political planning fer pest-Castra period. Status: No firm planning reported from State. The need . for clear t U.S. polscy ebjectives is basic here. ‘ m. "Grusade" for human Hberty, to make maximum use of — apiritual appeal. Prayera, such aa by Bishop Bosa Masvidal, widely publicized inside Cuba. Take use of memery of Marti away from Communists and give it te Cuban “freedom fighters. " Status: Speradic activities, not a "crusade. " n. U.S. or Free Cuban radio and TV broadcasts into Guba. Status: USIA making maximum use.of medium and short wave radio facilities, including CLA and commercial resources. No "Voice of Free Guba" short-wave breadcast echeduled immediately. New 50-kw radio transmitter expected to be -  gperational in Florida Keys next week, TV broadcasts from aircraft now under davelopment. (Boing developed outside S Mongoose. ) SENSITIVE TOP SECRET