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Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: 124-10326-10191 RECORD SERIES: NY AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-35253-987

Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: NY TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 03/29/1962 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS: ANTI CASTRO ACTIVITIES IS-CUBA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1A CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/14/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS:

DIRECTOR, FBI (109-584) SECRET MAR 29 1962 SAC, NEW YORK (105-35253) ANTI-FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO IS CUBA DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR, RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT, EXCEPT BRACKET Re NYlet to Director, dated 3/14/62. K9-21-98

MICHAEL J. P. MALONE, Vice-President, Czarnikow- Rionda Company, 106 Wall Street, NYC, who is also employed by the King Ranch of Kingsville, Texas, advised on 3/20/62, that he had accompanied ROBERT KLEBERG of the King Ranch to Washington, DC, on 3/15/62, for KLEBERG'S meeting with Vice-President LYNDON B. JOHNSON at 4:00 p.m. on that date.

MALONE advised that he did not accompany KLEBERG to the meeting with Vice-President JOHNSON, but KLEBERG informed him that they discussed the Cuban problem and what course of action the US was going to follow in this matter. KLEBERG, according to MALONE, was advised by Vice-President JOHNSON, that President JOHN F. KENNEDY has no contemplated plans at the present time for any large scale movement against Cuba, and there are no plans for the use of US troops in Cuba.

MALONE advised that KLEBERG told him that Vice- -President JOHNSON stated that President KENNEDY was much concerned about the world situation, and is devoting most of his time to the problems relative to Berlin, Laos and South Vietnam.

MALONE advised that KLEBERG stated that from his conversation with Vice-President JOHNSON, it was clear to him that the present administration has no intention of using US military force in the Guban

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SECRET MY 105-35253 problem, and that the Cuban problemine taken 4th place in the order of importance as far as President KENNEDY is concerned.

MALONE further advised on March 20, 1962, that while in Washington, DC, he had made arrangements to contact Mr. HERLERT,/ who was described as the as assistant to Colonel KING of the CIA. MALONE stated that in conversation with HARSART, the question of United States action in Cuba was discussed, and ERKEERT stated that he did not agree with the opinion expreseed by Vice-President LYNDON B. JOHNSON. told MALONE that he and his associates should get Together with Senators in thshington who are close to perfect agreement with the "New Frontier" puch as Senator HUBERT HUMPHREY of Minnesota, and bring pressure to bear on them since there Senators exert a certain degree of influence over the Président.

MALONE stated on 3/20/62 that he also had a meeting on 3/15/62 with his CIA contact, (CHARLES MARCHIN. MALONE stated that [MARCHIN] gave hin the definite Impression that he thought that President KENNEDY and the US would at some time make a move in Cuba. (MARCHIN) stated that the CIA continues to operate but not with the complete authority with which they would like to carry out their plans. HARCHIN suggested to MALONE that MALONE and his associates attempt to see Attorney General ROBERT F. KENNEDY and vee if nome pressure could not be brought to bear on the Cuban matter from Attorney Coneral KENNEDY.

MALONE advised that from his conversations with CIA on 3/15/62, and from the converantion of ROBERT KLEBERG with Vice-President JOHNSON, he definitely was confused as to whether or not the US had any definite plans for participation in an attempt to overthrow the present Cuban regime. MALONE stated that from conversations with other individuals in Washington, he got the impression that the Cuban Revolutionary Council was falling apart, and that Dr. JOSE MIRO CARDONA had very little influence over the Guben exiles in the Miami area.