JMARC PARAMILITARY OPERATIONAL PROGRAM ANNEX A PLAN FOR CREATION OF PARAMILITARY CADRES

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JMARC PARAMILITARY OPERATIONAL PROGRAM
ANNEX A
PLAN FOR CREATION OF PARAMILITARY CADRES
I. OBJECTIVE
To create a reservoir of trustworthy anti-Castro Cubans who possess
the requisite qualifications necessary to enter covert training programs
designed to provide cadre personnel for various priority paramilitary and
related operational programs.
II. REFERENCES
JMARC Operational Program
JMARC Paramilitary Operational Program
III. CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS
It is envisaged that the initial Cuban paramilitary cadre will not
be used inside Cuba in an operational role, except in the event of a
priority contingency situation which may develop prior to establishment
of a nmkttributable Cuban PM or related force, and then only on signal
of the highest CIA authority required. The mission of the first cadre
of cleared Cubans will be training the members of other PM Action cadres
which will be available for use in Cuba. Further, once the cadres have
completed their .training, they will be held in a eecure area until
national policy requires activation of paramilitary operations in Cuba
whether this requires leadership and support of isolated dissident
resistance or initiation of large-scale PM operations.
IV. ORGANIZATION
In order to accomplish the objective, it will be necessary to:
A. Assign Staff employees both to Headquarters and selected sites
in the U. S. and possibly elsewhere.
H. Augment the above with temporarily detailed Staff specialists
for short periods of time.
C. Utilise certain cleared non-Agency personnel for given aspects
of the program.
D. Process and assess fairly large numbers of Cubans and other foreign
personnel. (100 to 150 men)
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E. Provide the following facilities:
1. a safe area(s) in the U. S. or other Latin-American areas,
preferably the Caribbean, which are generally self-contained
and have enough housing and auxiliary buildings to securely
hold the number of personnel required for a given activity
including the administrative overhead. (See TAB A. Useppa
Island)
2. a secure site(s) in the U. S. where smaller numbers-10 to 20
personnel-can be safely held for a period of one or two weeks.
3. vehicles for the black movement of personnel, i. e. assessment,
holding and evacuation.
4. sterile aircraft for the black movement of personnel from
evacuation site to holding and/or training areas. (see
TAB B DPD Operational Plan for Black Movement)
V. PHASES OF ACCOMPLISHMENT
The operational plan will be accomplished in four phases culmina
ting with the delivery of cleared personnel to a secure training area;
or with the delivery of tainted personnel to a secure holding area.
Phase 1 will be the preparatory phase. Phase 2, implementation phase.
Phase 3, selection phase.. Phase 4, movement phase.
A. Objective Phasejr To spot and procure candidates from the Cuban
refugee or dissident groups.
Task 1. Obtain names and personnel history statements of
approximately hosuitable candidates from the existing Artime
group. (See TAB A)
Teak 2. Request other candidates with specialised back-
i. es, knowledge of radio telegraphy etc.
Teak 3. Supplement the above with young Cubans who will be
FeilifTrifed by Artime or appropriate leaders to leave Cuba
.legally.
Task 4. AsseMble a second group of. 10 Cubans with military
background who are initially selected by the Exile Junta,
when formed.
Task 5. To select an assessment site(s) for the above
Cubans. (see MBA)
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B. Objective Phase 2 - To screen and assess in depth the candidates
in order to meet the personnel requirements for cadres.
Task 1. To identify desirable and undesirable candidates by
CI, Security, and medical. screening, including psychiatric,
psychological, aptitude and polygraph examination.
Task 2. To identify suitable candidates for subsequent W/T
training.
Task To securely remove and dispose of rejects either
unsuik,able or disloyal. (See CI section TAB A)
C. Objective Phase 3 - TO select and assign the best of the candidates
to the PM cadre training or the communication training program.
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Task 1. To select a minimum of he of the most qualified per-
sonnel lo be trained in Panama as PM instructors/Organizers.
Task 2. TO select 20-40 men for intensive communications train-
ing in a Latin American country.
D. Objective Phase 4 - To securely move candidates from the place
where they are accepted to the assessment site and then to the
training bases. (See TAB's A and B)
VII. COORDMATICRI
Close coordination will be required between JMARC/PM and JMARC/
Support. Coordination will also be maintained with other technical
and professional components of the Agency which are involved in the
assessment program, such as TSD, A&E, Medical Staff, Office of Security,
DPD, and elements as necessary.
VIII. TIMING
It is anticipated that cadre assessment programs will be completed
by 1 July'1960 after which time the assessment site will be closed.
II. DISASIIR PLAN .
In the event of a security breech or related mishaps which could
jeopardize the JMARC program and/Or is adjudged as possibly leading to
serious international repercussions, the site would be immediately
deactivated. As soOn as practicable, the Cuban candidates should be
returned to the Miami area followed by the Agency-Staff personnel.
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JMARC OPERATIONAL at222W
PLAN FOR CREATION OFACADRES
I. OBJECTIVE:
To select, through a program of screening and assessment in depth, the most qualified
personnel for assignment to one of the cadre training programs listed below:
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A. gwenty Cuban PM instructor/organizers, to be trained in Panama.
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g. Twenty to Forty men for a communications training program.
II. REFERENCES:
A. See attached map and brochures of Useppa Island.
B. See attached schematic diagram, tentative schedule of activities.
III, ORGANIZATION:
A. Staff - At the Useppa Assessment Site, there will be required two Operations
Officers from the MOM PM Staff, and one maritime officer; two Logistics, one
maintenance, and four cooking and housekeeping personnel; two Security officers and
three guards; one teletype operator from the Office of Communications; one Medical
Technician; and one Administrative Assistant. Technical and professional personnel
will consist of two CI officers, two TS' officers, four Medical officers, two A & E
officers, four Security officers
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and four interpreter/translators. (b)(1 )
(b)(3)
There will be a Communications Officer for Comm Aptitude Testingland emergency Wit
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contact to Headquarters. Two will be assigned later AO)
(b)(3)
to handle the basic W/T operators training. This makes a total of thirty-nine Americans
who will be associated with the assessment site at one time or another during its operation. �
B. Foreign - Candidates will be Cuban anti-Castro personnel drawn from the Artime
group, the Diaz Tamayo group, plus other groups and individuals of prospective operational
value to JMARC. Probably from one hundred to one hundred. fifty candidates will have to
be screened to meet the personnel requirements for creation of cadres.
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B. Facilities � Useppa Island Assessment Site can handle securely one hundred people
at once, including the staff. By reallocation of space the total capacity could be
increased to approximately one hundred fifty.
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
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IV. PHASES OF ACCOMPLISHMENT:
A. Phase I.
1. Task: To procure candidates for the assessment program.
2. Timing: To start about 26 April 1960 and continue until sufficient candidates
have been assessed and selected to meet the personnel requirements for cadres. Time
of completion is estimated as 15 June 1960.
3. Objectives: To procure candidates from the Artime and Diaz Tamayo groups of
Cuban refugees, and from other groups plus likely individuals for the cadre assessment
program.
4. Method: Nominations of personnel will be invited from the groups concerned.
B. Phase II,
1. Task: To screen and assess in depth the candidates presented as prospects
for cadre assignment.
2, Timing: To start about 18 May and continue until sufficient candidates are
assessed and selected to meet the personnel requirements for cadres. Time of completion
is estimated as 15 June 1960.
3, Objectives: To identifyundesirhable candidates by Security, and Medical
screening. To assess desireable candidates through psychiatric, psychological, aptitude,
and polygraph examination in order that.assignmunts to operational duties will be in line
with the greatest potential value of the candidate to Project JMARO.
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4, Method: The technical and professional personnel of the screening and assess-
ment teams will conduct examinations of candidates and compile results in their own
fields on each individual. Joint meetings will then be held with the responsible
Operations Officer at which a linified profile on each candidate will be compiled
based upon the results of examinations in the various fields.
B. Phase III.
1. Task: To assign each candidate to the operational job in which his capabilities
or aptitude would make him most valuable to Project JMAB0.
2. Timing: To be done when complete assessment has been made on each candidate.
To begin about 25 May and end about 15 June 1960.
3.0bjectives: To assign each candidate to the P14 Instructor Cadrerte^qmiLitliecte
z:Ittagjegaspigi, or the communications training program. Those not assigned to one of
the three groups above would be assigned to support or other operational activities of
Project JMARC, or would be rejected from use in the Project.
4. Method: Subjective decision by responsible Operations Officers, based upon
knowledge of the individual from the assessment profile combined with knowledge of the
operational requirements of the Project.
V. RELATED TASKS:
A. Movement of candidates
1. To the Useppa Assessment Site.
2. Timing:- To start about 18 May 1960 and continue until the assessment program
Is completed. Time of completion is estimated as 15 June 1960.
3. Objectives: To move candidates from the place where they are accepted as
prospects (Miami in most cases) to the Useppa Assessment Site in a manner least calcu-
lated to attract undue attention to their movement.
4. Method: Movement maybe done 1y hired bus or station wagon, with Agency escorts,
or may be donels,==k by use of DPD aircraft, or a combination of the above methods
may be used.
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B. Movement of candidates
1. From the Useppa Assessment Site.
2. Timing: To start as soon as candidates are assessed and assigned, expected
to begin about 1 June and end about 15 Jane 1960.
3. Objectives: To move each candidate into the next area appropriate from his
operational assignment, in a secure manner with the least possibility or compromise.
4. Methods:
a. The PM Instructor Cadre4,110.4mmedfttemsmerta*Pfteupoo, and W/T Operators to
be trained as a Communications Cadre will be moved black to Panama by /VD under provi-
alone of their Black Movement Plan.
b. The candidates assigned to the basic communications training program will
(b)(1)
be moved into a compartmented area on Useppa Island where
(b)(3)__
will train them as W/T operators, in a ninety day program.
c. Candidates assigned to other operational activities of Project JMARC will be
moved by white, or grey means as appropriate to their assigned operational areas.
d. Candidates rejected from use in the Project will be moved by black, white,
or grey means as appropriate to an agreed point where they will be turned over to the
CI Staffiam* the FBI for further disposition.
C. Communications Training Program.
;Tasks
1./To establish a basic communications training program on Useppa Island where
those candidates who are not qualified W/T operators but do show sufficient communica-
tions aptitude will be assigned.
2. Timing: To start as soon as a class of at least twenty candidates can be
assigned from the assessment program. Estimated time is between 1 Juawand 15 June 1960.
3. Objectives: .To set up a program whichwill, in ninety-days, provide a minimum
of twenty-tesically trained W/T operators. They would then receive a thirty day trAining
course in Agency signal plans and code systems from the Communications Cadre mentioned in
V.B.4.a above in a third country base prim% agnment to invasion force teams.
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4. Method:, To compartment as a training area a yet to be selected part of the
Useppa Island Site, where a classroom facility for the trainees can be established and
instruction given to them in basic W/T operators techniques
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
VI. COORDINATION:
Close coordination will be required between JMARC/PM and JMARC/Support, CI, PI, PA,
and Propaganda in the execution of the basic program and the Support and CI annexes.
Coordination must be maintained with other technical and professional components who
are involved in the assessment program, such as TSD, A&E, Medical Staff, Office of
Security (polygraph), and the Office of Communications. Coordination may also be
required with DPI) and other elements involved in the movement of candidates.
VII. SUPPORT MIMES:
A. Chief of Support, JMARC
1. Logistics Annex
2. Personnel Annex
3. Cover Annex
4. Security Annex
B. mon/di
/A CI Assessment Annex (including disposition of rejected candidates)
C. MARC/PI, PA, and Propaganda
1. Debriefing and information requirements from the assessment program.
VIII. OTHER ANNEXES:
A. Technical Services Division (include technical intelligence requirements)
B. Assessment and Evaluation Branch
C. Medical Staff
D. Office of Security
E. Office of Communications (Assessme �grail and Basic Communications training
program).
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:JOBITSCRIPTICIS
The objective of the aneestment program to be cOndnoted at Waappa Inland is to
identity candidates who are suitable for assigsnent to the following jobs:
A. Masters of an immediate action grovalg:aamtwho would be available after 30
UP intensive training in Panama for eommiteant in Cabs under a contingency
condition. These men should preferably be former military or paraallitaryversonnel
who would be able to make a blind infiltration by air or sea, to establish contact
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with friendly elements in the area of operations, to gather and report operational
-intelligence from the area, to receive personnel or resupply drops Weir or sea,
and to coumunicate with the CIA base with, at least, tactical voice coumunications
equipment.
FL wir operators fom.assIgi4mMe$4h=Wnt*ggaUEUE112MOOt4pumpipmedphfor use as a
Onemsmioetiona Instructor Cadre. These men should to already qualified wit
operators, who ere capable of learning Agency *Joel plane, code system, and
:operating techniques in an intensive. 30 day course in Panama. Cadre members would
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teach Agency subject matter to the members of the Basic Communications Training
Program in the third country training bese where operational teams of the invasion
force will to formed.
twentyto fortymen
C. Members of a Basic eceammications Training Programil are not already qualified
W/T operators, but who show sufficient aptitude to learn to do so after a90 day
training program to be conducted at %amp& Island (b)(1)
(b)(3)
These MU would then be transferred to a third country training base
for Agency communications training by the Gommi;nicetione Instructor Cadre preparatory
to their asaigneentlo operational temmeecthe invasion forme*
DI. Members of a twat:rum cadre of PK inetmustoriorganisere. These men should te
capable, after 3 to 4. months training inhumes, of setting up and operating a
third country training bass where twenty operational teems would be organised and
trained aseninassion force. Cadre meabers wad set as instructors In all Oboes
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of Pfloptuiddons, would be camp supervisors, and each cadre member would have
ease officer responsibiliturfor one operational team. He would serve as a out.out
for CIA cue officers, each of whoa would be responsible through the cedro somber,
fer throe operational teens. No United States interest would be evident in the
teem training end operationol phases. WT operators from the Nazi* Communications
Training Program would be serried into the operational teams at the third country
training base after Agency Ccemunications training by the Communieatious Instructor
Cadre.
2, Members to be assigned to other operational activities of Project JNABC outside
the Pit field. These jobs would be in the areas of intelligence collection end .
reporting, political action, propagondal or operational support. .
1P, Candidates to be rejected from use in Project MARC. The prbmary reason for
rejection would be for CI reasons, look of proper and sufficient motivation, or
other widows of mental attitude inadequate to the propooed job assignment.. �Look
or sufficient mental, physicals or psythologiaal stability for use in the *partition
would be other reasons for rejection,
S. Ultimately, there will be need to amiss potential members of the operational
teams of the invasion force. Apommirmaaa4r400 people will be required.
S. Some general oriteria-foo selection for PM. assignments:
2. Meat to willing to engage in hasardout duty or combat.
24 N4st be willing to be separated from family,smd friends for seeeral aonthe,
3. Nast be willing to parachute orient from amphibious craft in hoatile territory.
44 Newt be anti-Communist aid anti-Castro. Willing to support United States
objectives which are not inimical to the long-range welfare of Cuhe4'
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