BRIEFING OF PFIAB PANELS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000500010083-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: November 4, 1966
• Content Type: MFR

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SUB.711..:CT: Briefing of ?FLAB k?Iirsels
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I called at Cone today e tirtng on getting
ports on rexponies to Latin linter can 'gaps and deficiencies"
dor Murphy.
Z. Coyne was aware of resterdays conversations between
r and Lir. VitsrpLy. In feet Coyne said that when Murphy, during
st nversation with Bross. had asked for time to think over what
y #vanted, he used that tire to check ?Afith Coyne. Coins obviously
pitch in for written sulx-aissions. He said they also discussed
covering "as well as 25X1
perhaps something on Cuba end' r I told Coyne that by the Watt 25X1
rphy called cross back? he had settled on the first five.
J. Coyne said, in et to 12,y tu..tion that if we got the written
noes to him, before the end of next week, be would see to it that
y and Sides read the, the 9:00 ifte?ting on the I itth. He said
thought the co:nbination of the written and the oral briefing right
to rest.
I asked whether Le 2iisaat that this and the Taylor briefing
then suffice and we would not tlfe through the exercise with the otter
Is, to he replied that he meant nothing of the sort. He then
htcl into a dissertation en the whole question of the gaps and deficiencies,
p, that he had previously 'tried to convey all of this to you peop/e out
He said that Clifford is 'riding this horse pretty hard." because
Clifford's original idea to solicit cony-rsents fro-, the two Secretaries
on gaps and deficiencies. He went cei to say that Clifford had aterStiOned
thit to the President and that Clifford fully intended to have all panels
eXacnine the -*atter carefully and that a report would be :nada back to the
resident in due count.. Coyne wild further that. again as he had tried to
point out to us, this "could get otst of hand unless it is handled intelligently.
I then 'switched to the subject of the ,mtiereabouts of Ole (uvira.
t we were mitssiled but Murphy's state:nent that he had been told
IA briefer that Che as in Cuba, vvheteas it was evident from our
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lad,: of kuo --..4ed,7,e about high policy council. in that country that ;we had
no ay to .,,ncow. Coyne, it-iediately jumped in, protesting that ha had
not ?51anted this ziuestion 4th -Murphy (to 'Li/illicit I replied that I knew be
had not), and that in fact CLA had repeatedly said that they did not kno,-
..-ihiere despite iliari roux rumors. Coyne racalled that
?N.re had seat him (Zith and 26th of May) n.lonierands from Mr. WitnGerald
aying exactly this, and that in oral briefings later the sa--tie thing had
'Jean said.
6. Coyne volunteered to try to get this straightened out 14' ith
1-04rpty. I said we would appreciate this because we of course did not
,yarat to ,-7,:talf.e an issum of it with hinl. I suggested that perhaps
25X1 nThight consult his usual volunainous notes and see if he could get a
clue as to ,vhat sparked this Filth I.turohy. Corso said he would do this
and let -le knew if anything developed.
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Distribution:
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1 - DD/ I
1 - DD/ P
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1 - NIPE chrono
1 - NIP E / PFLAB
1 - NIPE/ TAP chr ono
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