MINUTES OF SPECIAL GROUP MEETING, 25 AUGUST 1960
Agency: SSCIA
Originator: WHITE HOUSE
From: THE RECORD
To: PARROTT, THOMAS
Document date: 08/25/1960
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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MEMORANDUM

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DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : WH

FROM : PARROTT, THOMAS

TO : THE RECORD

TITLE :

MINUTES OF SPECIAL GROUP MEETING, 25 AUGUST 1960

DATE: 08/25/60

PAGES : 5

SUBJECTS :

CONGO

CUBA

GRAY, GORDON

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : S

RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED

CURRENT STATUS : P

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/30/93

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•Box 256

Folder 5

Exhibit 2 to Thomas Parrott testimony of 7/10/75

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25 August 1960

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

7110/75

SUBJECT: Minutes of Special Group Mooting, 25 August 1960

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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

rade Unl

ins;

the planned attempt ot a Socials

bor Sena

Sato arrange a vote of

no coniidence in Lumumba; ind a brand now coniact with un aliegei

¡eacer oi certain focapondone

groups. He emphasized mai ine

lattor had just come up and that we are now in te 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 extiemely 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 reierred to seriously and had

every intontion of proceeding as vigorously as the situation permits

or rcquires, but added that he must necessarily put himself in i

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.necussarily rule out "consideration" of any particular

kind of activity which might contribule to getling did ui Lumumbi.

Mr. Irwin commented that certain individuals in Defense have

given thought to the possibilily of using high officials of the Catholic

Church in Africa to promote the general objeclives of the West. In

this connection, he cited a preliminary assessment which had been

made of the Negro Cardinal recently appointed by the Pope - the

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

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