OPERATION MONGOOSE - FUTURE COURSE OF ACTION

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00196411
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 19
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2018
• Case Number: F-2016-02554
• Publication Date: August 8, 1962

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SUBJECT:
Approved for Release: 2018/04/23 cool 96411
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8 August 1962
Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director (Plass)
Operation MONGOOSE - Future Coarse of Action
REFERENCES: A. Memorandum for the Special Group
(Augmented) from Brigadier General
� Lansdale dated 25 July 1962. Subject!
Review of Operation Mongoose
B. Agenda for 10 August Meeting, Special
Group (Augmented)
. Remorandum to the OCI dated 24 July 1962
from c/rrw, Subjects Operation MONGOOSE-
End of Phase I
N/E 85-2-62 dated 27 July 1962,
Subject: The Situation and Prospects
in Cuba
Actions ilia memorandum sets out a recommended CIA posi-
tion on the future, course of action to be followed in Operation
Mongoose, ihiChw.ttL-bcdljcussedl at the meeting of the Special
Group (Augmented), 'ow 10 Aagesi 1962. reragraph VI/ below con-
tains recommendation, for your approval. A copy of this memo-
randum with Attachment A has been forwarded to the Office of
National Estimates .for the puparation of their separate
comments end assessment pursuant to your oral instructions on
2 August t962 `
t .
I. DACKig
A. the Special Group (Augmented)
approvedelii1... �tOj$e.1t1nn Mongoose 'authorising and directing
that betwcen. khatl4i1e,end-31 July 1962, CIA mount a concen-
trated operational program to collect intelligence concerning
Cuba and to develop,, Insofar as. possible, clandestine resistance
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