irovonbbr TOi or 30 The Secretary of State The Secretary of Defease The Director of CIA - The Attorney General o General Taylor General Lonsdale Richard Goodwin l$6l m' o The following is a c u n m r y of the rajcr decisions which have been naSo In regard to the Cuba Operation o o I 1 Ve will use our available assets to go ahead with the discussed project In order tp help Cuba overthrow tho com- munist regime # 2 This progran will be conducted under the general guidance of General Lonsdale acting as Chief of Operations It will be conducted by him through the appropriate regular organiza- tions and Departments of the government 3 j The program will be reyieved in two weeks in order to det rmino whether General Lansdale will continue as Chief of Operation o V Pho K3C GBPVl2 $roup will bo kopt closely infer reed of activities and be available for advice and recommendation 5 The Secretary of State and the Sr crotcry of Defenre sni the Director of the Cc-ntral- Intelligence gency will appoint senior officers of their depcrtr ont f r personal reprrr r ntc tiv to assist the Chief of Operations a required Thftse senior officers should be able to exercise -- either thenselves or through tho Secretaries and Director -- effective operational control over all aspects of their Departments operation's dealing with Cub ' ________ 'Knowledge of the exist ef -of-tM oy r-a4 -h should bo restricted to the recipients f B#i Tj6e flaGBPi Sri lLenbers of the 5 12 group and the ropr-fei enjbat lyes appoinfett by the Secretaries and the Directo I Cfelf cjjo ination of tlilc knowledge will be only vithrfths authority of the Secretaries of State or Operations I MJOfcMY GEWERAC ry it 8 y jc 0-uiti ru v e ' C O I I U i A C J Q jU S l o t o Z i R _____________________ D a te P a ge 1 0 1 3 9 8 1 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY RECORD NUMBER 1 7 6 - 1 0 0 3 2 - 1 0 0 1 8 RECORDS SERIES THE ROBERT F KENNEDY PAPERS AGENCY FILE NUMBER DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR FROM TO o TITLE SPECIAL GROUP AUGMENTED GENERAL 7 6 2 - 'l 0 6 2 DATE 0 0 0 0 0 0 PAGES 1 SUBJECTS VIETNAM DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS 4 -3 OPERATION MONGOOSE PAPER TEXTUAL DOCUMENT UNCLASSIFIED OPEN IN FULL OPEN 0 7 2 8 9 8 RFK B ox 3 S p e c i a l G rou p A u g m en ted 4 -3 O p e r a tio n M on goose G e n e ra l 7 6 2 - 1 0 6 2 R - ITEM IS RESTRICTED Box 4 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu