JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM © Date : 06/25/98 Page : 1 AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORDS SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE DATE PAGES SUBJECTS AGENCY INFORMATION NSC 145-10001-10182 : BRIG. GEN. LANSDALE THE CUBA PROJECT 01/18/62 9 PROGRAM REVIEW Released under the John Kennedy Wssassination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:iNW 54214 Date: wO-10-2017 PLANS TO ASSIST CUBANS IN OVERTHROWING THE COMMUNITS REGIME AND INSITUTE A NEW GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : 1C, 4 CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 02/25/98 OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS TODECLASSIFICATION HW 542714 DBocld: 32977053 Page 1
“Program Review by. SBR | Brig. Gen. E. G. Lansdale, ee rr re an 7 Chief of Operations ae a, cee ‘18 January 1962 . os : mip: guea PROJECT | nr a ik OBJECTIVE | ne ae le The U. $. “objective is to help the ‘Cubans overthrow the Communist _ .Fegime from within Cuba and institute a new government with which the : United’ ‘States’ can live in \ Peace. ” a _ . ae . i. CONCEPT OF OPERATION : ‘Basically, the operation: is to bring a about the revolt of the Cuban Re people. The revolt will overthrow the Communist regime and institute’ a ae . anew government with which \ the United States can live in Peace. a Pe The revolt 1 requires a strongly motivated political action 2 movement | ee established within Cuba,’ to generate the revolt, to give it direction to- - Bo wards the objective, and to capitalize on the climactic moment. The 8  -° (| * Dat political actions will be assisted by economic warfare to induce failure a oo of the Communist regime to. supply Cuba's economic needs, psychological’ . operations to turn the peoples" resentment increasingly. against the .Tegime, ‘and military- ~type groups to. give the popular movement an action arm. for oan ‘Sabotage and armed. resistance in support, of Political objectives. ” The. failure of the U. S. =sponsored operation in April. 1961 so shook. the faith of Cuban patriots in U.S, -competence and intentions’ in support- . _. ing a revolt against Castro that a new effort to generate a revolt against ~ / | .the regime in Cuba must have active support from key ‘Latin American aor countries, _ Further, the foreigness. (Soviet Union and Bloc) of the tyranny | a - imposed on the Cuban people must be made clear to the people ofthe : : ae . Western Hemisphere to the point of their deep anger and openactions to - | A ‘> defend the Western Hemisphere against such foreign invasion, Suchan’ |, _ - anger will be generated, in part, by: appeals from the popular movement uN within Cuba to > other ‘Latin Americans especially: ; The preparation phase must result ina political action. organization ee in-being ‘in key localities inside Cuba, with its own means for. internal : a comrmnunications, its own voice for psychological operations, and its: own) |. - action arm (small guerrilla’ bands, sabotage. squads, etc.). It must ‘have _. the sympathetic: support ‘of the majority of the Cuban people, and amake this oe fact known to the outside world.. (It is reported that the ma majority of Cubans: _ are-not for. the. present regime, but are growing apathetic towards what , we, 7 appears | to be a hopeless future or the futility. of their status. oe . a G ; ‘The climactic moraent« of. gevelt: we . ‘the people. to a goverament action. (sparked b by an incident), or + from a fracturing of the leadership cadre within the regime, or both. ° (A major : .goal of the Project must be to bring this | about. , The Popular movement, yent Contains iG: “pag a ‘nw de an of ars Jcepies.- | Excluded frian.aut iginatic -Fegrading: © DOU Dir, -5200.10 does 1 noi appty . HW 54214 Docld:32977053 Pasa? po L yy, -