MONGOOSE MATERIALS RETAINED BY THE CIA
Originator: ROCK
From: CARGILL, MASON
To: FILE
Document date: 05/30/1975
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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157-10003-10489]

JFK Assassination System

Identification I or

Agency Inform: tion

Date:

2/23/201

AGENCY: SSCIA

RECORD NUMBER: 157-10003-10489

RECORD SERIES: MEMORANDUM

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: ROCK

FROM: CARGILL, MASON

TO: FILE

TITLE: MONGOOSE MATERIALS RETA NED BY THE CIA

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS:

05/30/1975

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CIA FILES

OPERATION MONGOOSE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 04/20/1994

OPENING CRITERIA:

COMMENTS:

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Special Group (Augmented) mee:ings at which General Carter

participated and discussions of Cuba and/or Cuban overflights

during the period August 15 t November 14, 1962. This file

contains a memorandum dated October 16, 1962, from General

Carter to the Special Group Aigmented, Subject: "Operation

MONGOOSE Sabotage Proposals."

Paragraph Ic or this memorandu

contains a proposal that the[fIA undertake

"grenade attack on

the Chinese Communist Embassy In Havana, to be carried out by

a recruited Cuban

the embassy garden and who has volunteered for this mission.

The second file in this collection is entitled

simply "MONGOOSE. "

This contins nothing relevant to the

assassination inguiry.

Next in this collection in a large manila

envelope on which is written in ink the following notation:

"Separate cover attachment to ER75-5938." This envelope

contains miscellaneous papers related to MONGOOSE.

documents in this envelope contain, among other things, a

long list of potential

sabotaje targets within Cuba.

no reference

to assassination, either explicit or implicit.

The next file examined is marked "Cuba Special

Subject."

This file also contains miscellaneous papers

relating to Project MONGOOSE, none of which contain any

references to assassination.

The last item of this MONGOOSE package consists

of a bulky loose-leaf binder of papers assembled for General

Carter's reference of significant things that happened during

the period of August to Octoker, 1962. In this notebook, the

Inspector General has already flagged entries which refer in

any way to Operation MONGOOSE. I have examined all such

entries.

NO OBJECTION arbracketed

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