176-10033-10160 5 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10033-10160 RECORD SERIES : Church Committee AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM : TO : Attorney General TITLE : Operation Mongoose: Main Points to Consider DATE : 10/26/1962 PAGES : 3 . SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : Paper, Textual “CLASSIFICATION : Declassified RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 8/28/2002 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : a adhe a Mae FF. WAT MAMNAI Wee wee «
TOP SeGRet ; | OF oa oS . ce | Mr. McGeorge Bundy “SENSITIVE OPERATION MONGOOSE Main Pointe to Consider 26 Getober 1962 lh. What is the Policy Objective? We need a sharp focus en exactly what we hope to get from Mongoose now. Thies will determine how best to employ these unique U.S. resources -- either to support Y.S. military operations or directly to commit against the Communist regime immediately. Ie the end objective the removal of the Gastro /Communiat regime or to bring it to ite knees? Should Mongoose help generate a popular revolt with the probable need for overt U.S. military help ag the régime movee in to crush it? Or, is the aim that of maximum harassment, to make Guba a maximum burden for the Bloc? Undoubtedly, most people in the world now expect us to move tewards removing the Castyo/Communist regime. Certainly the Cubans in exile and inside Guba, whe are the main covert assets of CIA, now expect this policy goal ae the price of riaking their lives. 2. Mongoose Actions — @, Haraesment of and resistance te Guben regime. Status: 3 teams (2- to $-man) en route by emiall craft - teday. 6 teams by submarine, starting tomorrow. One more team being readied te go in by emall craft. 10 more teams being readied te go by eubmerine chertly. One team now in Oriente and one team in Pinay del Rio. All teamea have Wik, arms, explosives. OK _b. Guban-owned shipping (22 chips). Sink in Cuban or Blee - porta, or high senso. Gabotage cargees. Make crews inoperative. Statue: CIA has ll aesete aboard Cuban-owned ships. Action orders have gone to Hamburg, fer action. Other action periding. 3. Propaganda delivered to Cuba by balloon from ehip. Status: CLA does not have capability yet. SENSITIVE | FOP SECRET in ee eee | SAN UT TED Wii « 167 WAY EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC
Tip SECREI -_ SENSITIVE d. Majer acts of sabotage againat Heted targets of ore production, POL sterage, pewer plants, transport, communications. Stetus: Teams being trained for majo? sabotage were made part of teams now being sent in by submarine. (SAM sites beSoviet techniciane are not targets.) e. Minor acts of sabotage, by ali Cuban people. Requires delivery of instructions, of how to do it, te Cuban people. Status: No current capability indicated by GIA. Teams going in g in for any purpose at this tinse should have thie sesiga- moat. f. Sabotage of sugar production and delivery. _ Status: No current capability. Now trying te act against shipments of jate bagging. g-. Befect "namo" personpgee of regime, to fractiaa the regime, to éxpleit for political and peychelsgical ends. Statue: Miner diplomats being dafected. Actions with raajoy per: persansgea unsucceseful co far. Special effort ts é - kh. Help the Cubans te help themsetves. Thies means greater .S. aupport of Cuban greupe to take actions in Cuba. Stata: Under study. No firm plan yet for doing. i. Demenstrations ef workers and farmoge ia Cuba, ta Latin America, against the Gastre-Communist regime. Such demonstrations in Cuba would abun the regime to ite core. Status International Lougsheremaa's Association now - gefusing werk Cubon cargeds. No means yet for damonetra- Ny _ ¢tans inaide Guba. Special State /CIA actions te indicated. j. Expose segponaible individuals te in the Castye/Gemmuntst vtegime, ae a means towards relexing police-state centrale. Indict “peoples criminals” fox Justice after the goverument ie returned to \ the people. SENSITIVE. ; TP SECRET
TOP SECRET ~” SENSITIVE Statue: No activity on specific eperation. However, J GIA now now completing “black Het" of known Cuban intelligence and eecurity officials, ia support of possible U.S. military eperation, About 5,000 names. k. Give Cuban resistance popular symbols. Songs. Visual. Status: No song yet. Visual symbol is "gusano libre. * 1. Political planning for post-Gastre period, V Status: No firm planning reported from State. The need V for clear t U.S. policy objectives ia basic here. m. "Grusade" for human Hberty, to make maximum use of — spiritual appeal. Prayers, such as by Bishop Boza Masvidal, widely publicised inside Cuba. Take use of memery of Marti away from Communists and give it to Cuban “freedam fighters. ” Status: Sporadic activities, not a "crusade. " “sm. U.S. of Free Cuban radio and TV broadcasts into Guba. Statua: USIA noaleing maximum use. of medium and short wave radio facilities, including CIA and commercial resources. No "Voice af Free Cuba" short-wave broadcast scheduled immediately. New 50«kw redie transmitter expected to be operational in Florida Keys next week. TV broadcasts fram aircraft new under development, (Being developed outaide Mengoose. ) SENSITIVE TOP SECRET