MINUTES OF SPECIAL GROUP MEETING, 25 AUGUST 1960
Agency: SSCIA
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Document date: 08/25/1960
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MINUTES OF SPECIAL GROUP MEETING, 25 AUGUST 1960

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OPERATION MONGOOSE

CUBA

CONGO

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25 August 1960

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SUBJECT: Minutes of Special Group Meeting, 25 August 1960

PRESENT: Messis. Merchant, Gray, Irwin, Dulles

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Mr. Parrott outlined broadly three (or as Mr. Dulles later

described them "2 1/2) operational lines that we are following in

mounting an anti-Lumumba campaign in the Congo. These included:

operations through the chief advisor of the Christian Trade Unions,

the planned attempt of a socialis

Tabor-Senator to ayrange

no connuence

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leader of certain independent laboragroups!

Tie emphasized tat ine

latter had just come up and that we are now in the process of assessing

the bona fides and capabilities of the individual.

The Group agreed that the action contemplated is very much

in order. MI. Gray commented, however, that his associates had

expressed extremely strong feelings on the necessity for very

straightforward action in this situation, and he wondered whether

the plans as outlined were sufficient to accomplish this. Mr. Dulles

replied that he had taken the comments referred to seriously and had

overy intention of proceeding as vigorously as the situation permits

or requires, but added that he must necessarily put himself in a

position of interpreting instructions of this kind within the bounds of

necessity and capability. It was finally agreed that planning for the

Congo would not.necessarily rule out "considoration" of any particular

kind of activity which might contribute lo getting rid ui Lumumba.

KMI. Irwin commented that cortain individuals in Defenso have

given thought to the possibility of using high officials uf the Catholic

Church in Africa to promote the goncral objcutives of the West.

In

this connaction, he cited a preliminary assessment which had been

made of the Negro Cardinal Fecently appointedsby-the Pope othere

assessment being that the individual in question is a man of not

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vet dina intele, ask i driver there might be other

ndividuals of similar, althougl

maturally lesser, stature in the church

hierarchy whodcould be useful

Mr. Merchant commented that the Catholic Church in Black

Africa is not a very substantial force. Mi. Dulles concurred in this,

but added that this would be something to keep in mind as appropriate.

GRET

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