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Document Information ORIGINATOR: CIA FROM: TO: TITLE: MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD, SPECIAL GROUP MEETING 20 SEPTEMBER 1962

DATE: 09/20/1962 PAGES: 1

SUBJECTS: ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES CIA CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS

DOCUMENT TYPE: MEMORANDUM CLASSIFICATION: Secret RESTRICTIONS: IC CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/15/1993

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD OF SPECIAL GROUP MEETING OF 20 SEPTEMBER 1962

There was discussion of FIRE FLY. Its use over Kamchatka was disapproved. General Carter raised the possibility of using it against ✓ Cuba, and State appeared enthusiastic. (General Carter does not feel that any operations which DD/R has been considering have been prejudiced by this discussion.)

Thare was some discussion of the balloon operation over Cuba, but action was deferred until next week. In the meantime, State is most anxious that it be arranged for the exiles to do this and that they not come running back to Miami immediately. The question was also raised as to whether the exiles could still obtain helium.

The next ambassadorial counter-insurgency team will go to Africa. The chairman will be Carl Hummelsine. We are to drum up a candidate.

In presenting the North Vietnam plan next week, CLA is to include the requirement for an overflight to gather radar information. In connection with the whole North Vietnam operation, State seems determined to have no overflights over Laos and no involvement of Chinese Nationalist aircraft or personnel except possibly Chinese pilots in sterile aircraft with South Vietnam credentials. State plans to balance very carefully the risks versus the potential gains, DD/I is to prepare the same sort of astesument on the North Vietnam operation as on Tibet.

The Air Libya item was approved as presented.

The support to the Apra Partyi The Apra Party in Peru approved as presented.

Do Tibet, to be acted on next week, Secretary Rusk is absolutely Dim on getting the Indians cranked in.

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General Carter briefed the meeting on the provision of the security advice to the President of Colombia.

General Carter read the CIA memo on CINCARIB communications problems. The meeting expressed delighted surprise at our capability. We are now a full-fledged member of the State-Defense group which is considering this problem.

On Nicaragua, a memo is to be prepared for the Acting DCI-describing the degree of Cuban involvement, particularly in the shipment of arms to Nicaragua by way of Honduras. This memo will also cover Communist infiltration of student and loor and a discription of CIA activities in these same fields.

There was a long discussion of the role of USIB in recommending coun- tries to be placed on the counter-insurgency list. Full account to be gotten To ::: Parroti.

There was discussion of the Southeast Asia status report, concentrating on strategi hamlets, the Montagnards, and the bad press situation im Saigon.

General Carter called attention to the memoranda on the North Vietnam presence in Laos. The question came up as to whether there was an SNIE in the works on this. This subject is to be keptcurrent, especially in view of the 6 October deadline.

State and Defense announced that they had now sen the counter anstergency dortre papers to everyone in the field.

Theme was suggestion that it was time for a progress report te South Vietnam intelligence capability,

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