</s>104-10307-10024 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 A TOP SECRET - SENSITIVE D D A 27 November 1962 Discussed 27 November R Note: 1962 by DD/P with DCI and approved generally in principle by DCI. Fully concoured in by DD/PP. MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence MEMORDUM FOR : Director of Control Intelligence THROUGH: Deputy Director (Plans) SUBJECT: Operational Plan for Continuing Operations Against Cuba 1. Action: This memorandum is for your information and pursuant to your request. Recommendations for action are contained in Paragraph V below. The purpose of this memorandum is to delineate an operational plan for the action which we believe should be taken by CIA against Cuba for the predictable future. In summary the plan provides for continuing, even intensifying, the intelligence effort against Cuba and for the reorientation of the current effort into a long term denied area type of operation of the highest priority. I. ASSUMPTIONS: A. The United States Government will give public assurances that, provided no nuclear or offensive weapons are present or re-introduced into Cuba, and provided Cuba does not take action to threaten the peace and security of the Western Hemisphere, the United States does not intend to invade Cuba or support an invasion of Cuba. TOP SECRET - SENSEITIVE

Memorandum for Director of Central Intelligence:

Subject: Operational Plan for Continuing Operations Against Cuba

The memorandum outlines a plan to continue and intensify intelligence collection against Cuba, with the following objectives:

* Isolate and discredit the Castro-communist regime
* Maintain maximum economic and political pressures on the Cuban regime and economy
* Maintain maximum possible intelligence and counter-intelligence coverage of Cuba
* Take maximum action to induce a split in the Cuban regime

The plan includes the following operational actions:

* Intelligence exploitation of refugees: Re-establishing flights from Havana to Miami and re-opening the Opa-Locka Interrogation Center
* Resident agents in Cuba: Continuing to exploit, preserve, and re-establish communications with recruited agents now resident in Cuba
* Third country operations: Strengthening efforts to recruit agents in third countries for dispatch to Cuba
* Liaison operations: Pressing liaison services to assist in the effort against Cuba
* Maritime operations: Increasing efforts to get at seamen's agents and other maritime assets through liaison services

The plan also includes the following organizational and procedural changes:

* Gradual reduction in expenditures and personnel of Task Force W
* Consideration of re-positioning Task Force W within the Clandestine Service
* Abolition of the operational Mongoose mechanism
* Removal of the past framework requiring detailed consideration by the Special Group (Augmented)

Recommended action includes securing concurrence from the Director of Central Intelligence and the Special Group (Augmented), as well as policy approval to attempt to induce Pan American Airways and KLM to resume flights between Miami and Havana.

Key individuals involved:

* William K. Harvey, Chief, Task Force W
* Director of Central Intelligence
* Special Group (Augmented)

Dates and locations mentioned:

* 27 November 1962
* Cuba
* Miami
* Havana

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