Date : 06/25/98 Page : 1 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM ee AGENCY INFORMATION  fReleased under the John) . Kennedy AGENCY : NSC Lesassination Records RECORD NUMBER : 145-10001-10203 Ollection Act of 1992 RECORDS SERIES : (44 USC 2107 Note). AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 280 ase#: NU 54214 Date: DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE : DATE : 00/00/00 PAGES : 8 SUBJECTS : TASKS ASSIGNED TO CIA IN GENERAL LANSDALE'S PROGRAM REVIEW DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : 1B, 1C, 4 CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 02/24/98 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS NO JOINT STAFF OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICA HW 54214 Docld: 32977075 Page 1
SUBJECT: Tasks Assigned to CIA in General Lansdale's Program Review A. TASKS Part V, pp. 5-8, of General Lansdale's program review of the Cuba Project, dated 18 January 1962, assigns 32 specific tasks to elements of the U.S. Government. Of these, 16 are assigned to CIA solely or jointly. The tasks have been reviewed by this Agency, and it has been determined that substantially all reporting and planning deadlines can be met. Work on all tasks, with and without assigned dates for completion, is in progress. The following detailed observations are keyed to General Lansdale's paper. 1. Taskl, p.5. The intelligence community is hard at work on NIE 85-62 and is attempting to meet the deadline of 7 February. As was agreed in a conversation of 23 January 1962 with General Lansdale, a short extension may be necessary. 2. Task 2, p.5. The Opa-Locka Interrogation Center in Florida will be in 6pération on 15 February -- the deadline date. 3. Task 3, p.5. The survey is in progress and will be completed on the stipulated date. On the basis of the information HW 54214 Doctld:32977075 Page 2? TAS At
HW 44214 obtained the possibility of establishing additional interrogation points will be determined. 4. Task 4, p.5. An operational assessment of the stay- behind net in Cuba will be completed and reported by the deadline of 15 February. Because communication with singleton agents is eet 2 by sw, not w/ T, it is unlikely that assessment can be completed by the date stipulated; an extension to 28 February may be necessary, although every effort is being made to complete the work EGG [as intensive program aimed at the acquisition SSE, ; of third country assets through the cooperation of liaison services is also under way, particularly in Spain, Belgium, France, & i SS eege™ Uruguay, and Costa Rica. A progress report on the status of te this program will be made by 15 February, although this Agency cannot be sure that the cooperation of all intended participants will have been obtained by that date. CIA has also taken the follow- ing additional steps in respect to Task 4. a. A cable has been sent to field stations to give added impetus to the search for assets and the development of both unilateral and joint operations. Progress reports have been required by 1 March. b. A survey of the Cuban Chinese community and of Docld: 32977075 Page 3 | SAS
operational access to it is under way. Target date: end of February. c. Anassessment of more than one hundred persons to determine their suitability for return to Cuba as agents in the guise of students is also being conducted. Target date: end of February. 5. Task 5, p.5. The 1 February deadline will be met, and by that date we shall also have begun the search for suitable inter- mediaries. | Analysis to date has not uncovered a top- level official of the Cuban vegiwié whose personal characteristics indicate he would accept recruitment or agree to defection now. Although | iy some targets of opportunity will appear outside Cuba, most planning will necessarily be based upon an appeal made inside the island by intermediaries selected from the ranks of journalists, foreign officials, international businessmen, foreign lawyers, crime syndicates, international detectives and foreign police officials. Additimally, plans for the defection of lower-level Cuban officials abroad have been completed, and the search for targets and access abroad is under way. 6. Task 6, p.5. By the assigned date we shall complete and submit a coordinated plan. We shall also have begun action on -3- sO AW 54214 Docld: 32977075 Page 4
> ~ - oO cover and deception operations by that date. 7. Task 7, p.5. By 1 February CIA will submit an opera- tional schedule for the initiation of an organized resistance move- ment inside Cuba, The schedule will include the localities selected and the assessment of some candidates. A full assessment will be completed in accordance with the schedule listed in para. 4, abové, in conformance with Task 4. It should be noted, however, that this operational schedule (like the schedules ¢alled for in Tasks 10, 26, and 30) will necessarily be tentative and subject to later revision as the number of assets inside Cuba increases and ag the flow of intelligence is augmented. Moreover, the development of a resistance movement will not remain controllable, 80 that operational timetables produced during the next four weeks can serve only as guides for a proposed sequence of actions. 8. Task 10, p.5. CIA has on hand both propaganda and political action aesets in the Caribbean area and elsewhere in Latin America. It is planned to use those assets both to support the Project inside Cuba and to generate and mobilize public and official opinion against Castro outside Cuba. The operational schedule will be submitted on the stated date. 9. Task 18, p.6. Discussions with the appropriate AFL-CIO = hon HW 54214 Docld: 32977075 Page 45