MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD BASED ON THE DEBRIEFING OF GENERAL CARTER WHO ATTENDED THE SPECIAL GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001900120007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 15, 1962
• Content Type: MFR

15 June 1962
Memorandum for the Record based on the debriefing of General Carter
who attended the Special Group (CI) and the Special Group Meetings on
14 June 1962.
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Special Group (CI)
Item 1. Ambassador Trimble briefed on Cambodia along the lines
of his earlier dispatch on the subject.
ACTION: Each member of the Special Group (CI) is to
present a status report on all current programs in Cambodia at the
next meeting of the Special Group (CI).
Item 2. South Vietnam status report. The Group heard an oral
report from who had returned from Saigon. There was a
discussion of reporting by the CIA Chief of Station and it was generally
agreed that such reporting provided a useful insight. No members of the
Group seemed disturbed by alleged criticism of the Pentagon in this regard.
ACTION: Chief of Station, Saigon, is to prepare an assess-
ment of intelligence collection and evaluation by all departments and
agencies throughout South Vietnam.
delivered at the meeting.
Item 3. Research and Development Projects.
General Carter delivered copies of the Agency paper to General
Taylor, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Gil atric, Mr. Coffin, General Krulak,
The DOD paper on this subject was
ACTION: . General Carter and Mr. Gilpatric are to
coordinate on this subject in order to insure that there is no gross
duplication and that views from the field on the kind of equipment are
given due weight.
Copies of the DCI cable as amplified by our Station in
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were given the same distribution as the Research and Development
paper. There was general discussion of the situation in
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Department of State reporting would brief the Special
Group .(CI) at its. next meeting on the Country Team Internal Security Plan.
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The Group discussed organization of a Task Force on omparable
to the one on South Vietnam and the desirability of including them under
. The State Department will send a letter
to all members proposing the establishment of these Task Forces.
Item 5. Draft NSAM was amended to conform to the language of
NSAM 124 and there was a discussion of the authority and responsibility
of the Special Group (CI) for the development of country plan. The
desirability of desk level Task Forces for each of the countries falling
under CI purview was discussed. It was the consensus these Task Forces
would report periodically and bring to the attention of the principals
matters which seemed to be falling behind.
Special Group
Item 2. The request for two additional Cuban overflights in June
was approved as presented.
Item 3. The USIB recommendation fnr C-111) fliey over
was approved F 7
Item 4- Wn CKLE flights are to- be flown
without a further request for approval by
une pecia roup. The intelligence. desired will be sought by the use of
RF 101's.
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OTHER ITEMS:
1. MONGOOSE. Mr. Ed Hurwitch (State) is to act
right-hand man on this subject.
2. Mr.
Johnson told General Carter the Soviets may soon have
and that State was going to recommend a course
of action which would involve Mr.
Johnson said this has been discussed with McGeorge Bundy.
ACTION: DD/P and Tracy Barnes are to find out the status
of this proposal nd to prepare a plan against the contingency that we are
going to be asked to take some action.
for a briefing on Special Group membership and activities. This request
came through CIA.
ACTION: A briefing statement is to be prepared for
General Carter's use on the understanding this is to be confined to
counterinsurgency.
4. In connection with the Counterinsurgency Doctri$ paper, this
is being redrafted to accommodate the views of State, JCS, and DOD.
There was a discussion of the charter of the Special Group (CI) and it
was agreed that this Group would not have the. authority to approve programs
by existing agencies and departments. General Taylor said that the
Special Group (CI) acted as a focal point for the President with McGeorge
Bundy as an Adjutant General, and that the Special Group (CI) acted on
the basis of special National Security Action Memoranda. On the other
hand, the 5412 Group is, by the terms of its charter, a corporate entity
with the power to approve programs.
`JITE/ji WALTER ELDER
Executive Assistant
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