JFK Assassination System - Date 8 27 20 Identi cation Form Agency Information AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORD SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER ROCKCOM 840003-1004 ASSASSINATION FILE ASSASSINATION MATERIALS--MISC I I ORKHNATOR HA FROM FITZGERALD DESMOND TO DCI TITLE Eleased under the John Kennedy ssassination Records Collection at of 1992 44 USC 210 Note ase# NH ESEQE Date 06 13 201 DATE 04 12 I963 PAGES 4 SUBJECTS CLANDESTINE ACTIVITIES CIA CUBAN EXILES MEMORANDUM CLASSIFICATION Unclassi ed RESTRICTIONS Consulted CURRENTSTATUS Rc wt DATE OF LAST REVIE W 09 01 1995 OPENING CRITERIA COMMENTS 3 Document Information 80 NH 53244 Page 1 17 8 10003-10047 Ind-- ANDUM FOR Dircctor of Ce Deputy Dir ctor Plans u SUBJECT 2 Effects DI the Curtailman of 3' Hit and Run Raida 1 1 T1338 paper 3 3 for your and-run raid by 1 55 of eff-eat slap angling upon from decision - The decisicn of the U 3 Cuban exile grainy here one-is vi I 3 From XI ide matro s View it Will 1132 mixed feelings 2-315 iirat will 04 having toppad the majority oi these 3 recognize that $113 sz they have been damaging Fidel will we think will not atop a iaw cia'cermined Cub injunction did not deter bin in his fight degree Caz-Hr willview this order with agpr probably wonc ter what we miscalculate the effec the basic motivation and drive of that of the U 5 and not the Cuban hhnself to see the entire exile e ort age 4 We believe the anti - will be seriously disheartened - '1 interpreted and loudly proclaimed as a v a further accommodation to the Our effort to Jefect racruit or L meat ahould be mzpactefl to become NH 53244 Page 2 Government to Stop will have a variety swing the recognize that ana just as such an to oust Batista 33121131021 3 1 19 will plan instead Cast 0 of this order for he may 1155 exiled Cuban is actually i-Ee'may eaqaect Cast-r0 element his U 3 policy will be 'ctory for Fidel and Fidel i 3 Castro Govern - an more clii'iicult A axia' ance of t1 1 nah Cf 1 13 31 I telligenca of 3 15119 information only hit- b-rlief that ha elation at our 3 215 but he will soon more Sp aciacular than is order 7330 a array wall believe that inst him collapse inside Cuba mva rir I I 0303 3 013339 SHL HOHJ I I f rm-r' In -J yJus g r few disillusiOHed individuals ontha inzside who have long awaitad U S action'may new be convinced that it is not coming and nally leave a rcgimet zey cam-10 teal-irate 5 The e 'ect on the exiles and their activities will be varied Basically their motives 11- 6 first hopefully to cmbroil the U A on their side Becondly to establish their own pa rsonal reputation and thus assure a Isigmlicant yea-1110 in the future and thirdly an honest desire to remove Castro and 11 13 govemmanz The 01-5131 will sauna the non-activiat time Cuban exile wherever he is to conclude that tha 11 8 is unwilling to per-1111 111 ireeHa'ncing Cuban exile to force or ex cateu S gsolicy in the Caribbean by their 32110113 Soupleai with 111 13 though will go the conviction that the S 13 com-1111111115111 these aids cannot bring Castro down and short of a 21111 scale military invasion Casu-o in invulneraola T1113 1 121 13 him unhagapily to the Cpl-1211131011 that the 113 3 0 immediate Jramatic plan for the restoration 'i hey will use the hardtarm co of danocracy to Cuba I e dsiax1ca co Lleacriba our 3911 2 32 61 some Will call it appeasrbment Iviany Cubans will conclude that the U is right and that they cannot do that whicn the U judges cannot be done Soma will at 1011313151 pad their 11338 and may leave 3311211111 for various destinatiOns 1 1 the U 3 and Latin America or in jLLat a few cases they 111m ask to go home 6 The f'activiat Cub211 es-dies will prob-ably- not be deterred by the order - fhey may even pro t by 7 113 rlatree It will now be as greater honor to engage in Operations against Fidel 'lim 21011013 jacpardy arising 151-0111 the 1111- at of detenticn by H 33-91113 and the cbamca for at the mantis of Fidel N111 be an even graater chant-1133 actually the Bupyly of rear- 1113 for such hit and run raids may run shallow out not c127 _Anotnar advantage arising from the scrutiny ofL J 3 agents will he t1 t1 iruprovgment in control and setter clandestine Security 1311b as the U t1 Amman 1110 1 '11 aways H083 practi cm on 1114- wart of the exiles and app ehancia these men Woods anu fut-261 1 the loci of power wi 1 have a te 12an to move bac xt 0 its traftitional the mailud- -onied interests such as L13 3303 1195 3 13m ccnte 1 13 5 19 I must be recognized that the clamp 11 vn w 11 L131 53241 Page 3 Ip f string operator and amyp tbara Lumoor'iinatrad welds will tame and eliminate the shoe but it must be that occasional slip through any cordon most apt to profit row this ouncement will be Manolo of than Revolutionarj 313513 Junta Rcwlucmnaria - JURE It has long been con tentian that the Cubans themselves must intim and ram Cuba and the decision to stop ta-15 13 rai s may have t na immadiata cii'act of firmly convincing many anti Castro Cabana aha the freedom of Cuba is altar their pfoblz-m 7 Politically $320 exile pron 8 From the stan poim of our age-31113 inside Cuba rm ally b'e beriaualy iiaheart rad Ehey had dreaxzi d vmul increase 2431 13 1ch Off balance encourage 2333mm iaiunally mci eventually blow the spark into a com'lagyation destroying ideliamo Schering as the thought of 19 Wedgie 3131 from the will be We 'beliava our combined contact 51le support of these man will lama to them that they have not been forgotten aml that our determination to frw -Fuba has not changed beliave some will initi I is the soon actually to Mata de nit'vely what the recruihmeax pmgrarn of racruits bat hair 9 effect of this policy will have on Our T213 Agency s problem in not the numb gnaw-f The tmemploycd eclucated hump are slwaya with us- Some of tha anon diaceming type Cabana will avoid recruitment as they are convinced that a princigml reaasm 50 the U action is to control who fights Ca tro in carrier to assureg who will succeed him others will cieaixe to work for of thin fatter The preliminary reaction of our station was to c'ioubt that the ordar Woold have any effect on our efforts I auoa a aqvuas r 1 4 5-w- 1 Deanaond FitsGerald Chic-I Special Affairs Staff 53244 Page maeverml Agni 190g Distribution If Orig 3L 1 - AddreBBae 1 - Mr 1313b 1- - Signer - r- r Page I a t5 53CD 3- 22 37 a 1 1' NH 53244 Page 5 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