(EST PUB DATE) CLANDESTINE SERVICES HISTORY: MAJOR POLICY AUTHORIZATIONS FOR THE CONDUCT OF COVERT PARAMILITARY ACTIVITIES BY CIA 1948 - 1966

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 14, 2018
• Case Number: F-2018-00870
• Publication Date: August 1, 1968

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CLANDESTINE SERVICES
HISTORY
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Major Policy Authorizations
for the Conduct of Covert
Paramilitary Activities by CIA
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1948 1966
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NSAM No. 204, 7 November 1962
This NSAM advised that with the assumption of duties
as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by General Taylor,
changes were required in the composition of the Special
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Group (CI).� The new composition of the Special Group
was to be as follows: The Department of State (Chairman),
Department of Defense, Department of Justice, Joint Chiefs
of Staff, Agency for International Development, Central
Intelligence Agency, and White House; at a later date the
United States Information Agency was added. The President
advised that he expected these departments and agencies
would be represented on the Special Group (CI) by the same
officials listed in NSAM No, 124. The White House repre-
sentative was to be-provided through the Special Assistant
for National Security Affairs, and Mr. Michael V. Forrestall
was designated for this purpose. It would be his respon-
sibility to assure White House coordination where needed
and to keep the President fully informed.
It might be noted that the assighffient of the Attorney
General as a member of the original Counterinsurgency Group
as listed in NSAM No. 124 must be considered as a purely
personal appointment based on the President's bitterness
over the results of the Cuban operation and his implicit
trust in his brother, Robert F. Kennedy. Ordinarily it
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would not be considered that the responsibilities of the
Attorney General were in any major way concerned with the
responsibilities of the Special Group (CI). NSAM No. 204
designated the Department of Justice as providing a member
of the Group, not specifying that this be the Attorney
General.
NSAM No. 283, 13 February 1964
In this NSAM, the President noted with approval that
considerable progress was being made in the Government's
internal defense/counterinsurgency training effort and
expressed his desire to be assured that this effort be
sustained in the future. The NSAM continued with specific
recommendations as to the type and degree of training to
be provided for all officers who were either going overseas
into underdeveloped areas where subversive insurgency was
considered to be a threat, or as officers in the head-
quarters of various departments and agencies would be con-
cerned with such activities in these Treas. It directed
that the Special Group (CI) oversee and support the entire
training effort and report periodically to the President
upon the degree to which training objectives spelled .out
in the NSAM are being achieved. An interagency sub-
committee on training would be established by the Special
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