312. Memorandum From the Chief of Operations, Operation Mongoose (Lansdale) to the Special Group (Augmented)0
SUBJECT
- Institutional Planning, Operation Mongoose
As desired by General Taylor on 12 March, the planning for Operation Mongoose is now prepared on a format of separate planning for each Department and Agency involved. Revised planning along this line is submitted herewith.
Activities already approved are marked with an asterisk. Further planning must await determination of policy questions raised in my 12 March 1962 memorandum to the members of the Special Group (Augmented).1
Planning transmitted to you by my memorandum of 10 March 19622 should be returned to me for destruction as a matter of security.
[Here follows the 22-page action plan. For text, see the Supplement.]
- Source: Department of State, S/S Files: Lot 65 D 438, Mongoose. Top Secret; Sensitive. An attached distribution list indicates that 10 copies of the memorandum were prepared. Copies were sent to Robert Kennedy, Taylor, Rusk through Johnson, McNamara through Gilpatric, Lemnitzer through Craig, McCone through Helms and Harvey, and Murrow through Wilson. Two copies were kept by Lansdale. For text of the attached action plan, marked with asterisks to indicate those items approved by the Special Group (Augmented) on March 5, see the Supplement.↩
- Document 311.↩
- Not found.↩