JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : NSC RECORD NUMBER : 145-10001-10205 RECORDS SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 278 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR FROM TO : TITLE : G. INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT PLAN DATE : 03/00/62 PAGES : 2 SUBJECTS : ACTIVITY, PURPOSE, CONSIDERATIONS DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : . RESTRICTIONS : 1C CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 02/24/98 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS NO JOINT Siar OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION QUIRES CONCURRENCE OF paTe:__MAR  7nip [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED HW 542714 Bocld: 32977077 Page 1 O Date : 07/08/98" Page : 1 Released under the John Kennedy Wesassaination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note}. ases#: NW 54214 Date: bO-O4-2017
ACTIVITY Special Operations Room fully activated, by | March 1962 eee Caribbean Admission Center, Opa -Locka, Florida, fully activated by 15 March 1962. Oe,  —=E 2 3, Develop additional Interrogation centers in other areas, during March 1962. ee 4. Expand special intelligence and other sensitive intelligence cover- age, ae required. ICE SUPPORT PLAN PURPOSE To provide the Chief of Operations and the project team with current intelligence and daily developments. To provide top U.S. officials with status briefings, 26 useful. : To collect intelligence required for the operations, to identify and earmark assets as refugees arrive, and to pro- vide security against Communist agent operations. To collect intelligence in a Latin atmos- phere, at different levels than now seem possible in the continental U.S,, to spot additional assets for the operation, and to provide security against Communist agent operations. To develop increased “hard’' intelligence. ee ee _ CONSIDERATIONS A maximum security room for this project will be maintained in the inner JCS security area of the Pentagon. (Defense responsi. bility, with support by CIA and others as required.) This operation, in response to early recom-> mendation as essential by the Chief of Opcra- tions, is moving at utmost speed to become fully active by 15 March, with a new building _ completed and occupied, and with a staff of 42 at work. The staff is now being increased in phages, as quickly as personnel are train ed, to supplement the initial ataff of 9. (CIA responsibility, with support by Defense, Justice, State, USIA.) As Opa-Locka becomes fully activated, as first priority, CIA must survey means and methods for activating, other interrogation enters where useful. ‘ 7 should 6 gurvey. ew centers should be activated as quickly as feasible. (CIA responsibility, with support by Defense and others as necessary.) WW 54214 Bocid: 32977077 Page 2
5. “:Cuban "colonies": in U- S. a “ACTIVITY. ne ~ Develop > intelligence potential of \ “Develop the means of the Intex - American. Defense- ‘Board ‘to pro- vide substantive ‘intelligence « on _ “Cuban ac tivitie. 5. “4 Pe riodic intelligence estimates, as. _ required by progress of operations. . PU RPOSE mop ss ° 2 woe ; To exploit ‘the ‘intelligence ‘pos sibilities . of former ‘residents: of Cuba (including Ale GG INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT PLAN’. - (cont. . c ~U. Se citizens) now in. the. United States. -To add to the increased U.S. intelligence coverage on Guba and. to strengthen. the To up-date NIE 85: 62; . +. ,concern of Latin American states: for tet “security, : . 80 that current a é stimates can. be: considered at national oo Policy. levels. fa - "inside Cuba for some of these residents; > “areal: potential exists for collection of = a intelligence not. otherwise available. - (Justice/F BI responsibility, . with. support ' ‘from ‘CIA and: others as required. )- ee as ) required. __ CONSIDERATIONS | > woe ~ a 7 * hace’ are ‘colonies" in- Washington, D. C. , - -and: other:U. S. cities which are "little. , Cubas. " _ Family, Chur¢h, and. -business~ interests: provoke unusual | personal ties - (Responsibility of Defense, with support . by others as | required. )- c oye As the operations. develop, there will be, ~ both increased intelligence. ‘collection and’ a need for as'current an Intelligence Esti« od ie i mate as the U. 'S. can produce. meaningfully. . It is likely that a more ‘informal method of ‘producing an Intelligence. Estimate for use at the national level (than now governing the _ “issuance | of NIE's) may have to be followed. (CIA responsibility, - with ‘support of others” HW 54214 'Docld:32977077 - Page 3.