AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORD SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER macu 55m ORIGINATDR FROM TO TITLE DATE PAGES SH DOCUMENT TYPE CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW OPENING CRITERIA Tl NARA IFK Assas Rec RG 263 Records of CIA Misc Files Box 1 jfkimioz 1 PFIAB JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY I FORMAT I 0N 7 35 JFK-MISC CI A-CMS 1 1 LEE-3 CIA PE TAPS 5 40 31' 7523 ITEM I HESTH '6 t-z PER JFK ACT Date 09 27 Page 1 1 J's 2-151 3 119 17 April 196 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT Meeting on CA Mattere with the Panel at the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board 1 On 15 April at requeet I met with Robert Murphy Gordon Gray and J Patrick Coyne to brie them on major covert action development since their previoue briefing on 2 November 1962 The meeting hand from 10 00 to 12 15 2 A Mr Murphy'e requeet I began with a deecription of our electoral operatione an approved by the Special Group in Chile the Dominican Republic and Guatemala Mr Murphy waa particularly concerned with the eituatlon in jand both he and Mr Gray found it dif cult to underetand why the State Department condoned to provide iarge-ecale economic whenE f 3 had to date refined to clean houee of the Communiete and fellow travelere both within the government and the labor movement They were interested in knowing that we Gl l In tonch with aome of the military leadere who are oppoeed to 3nd they aeemed to gel that a military coup at eorne point might be preferable to allowing a country a II lto drift into the haede of the oppoeition Both gentlemen wished to know the amount- that we had expended in electoral operatione and our own estimate of the reeulte They did not queation either the need for intervention or the size of our e ort although in the Chilean caae Mr Murphy wanted to be rare that we had evidence that the funds panned through E handa actually reached the Chilean Chrietian Democrats 3 Mr Murphy then railed the jpromgm 4 ud that he had been informed in New' York that the State Department wae putting coneiderahie on theL 3 regime to pet-elude it to hold the electiona scheduled arc 19b He queetioned the window of thie preaeure pointing out that there area a real danger of the I jreturning to power if the eiectione were held H uked our opinion and raid that dclpite the there was ecu considerable doubt whether the electione would actually take plug CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE AS SANITIZED 1998 1 RELEASED PER JFK ACT I I added that the more responsible military were trying to work out with the 5 jgovernment and the cool 1 jpoliticsl parties a formula which would prevent the r 3 jfrom melting large gains on the utionei level t On the subject ofE 1' 3 Mr Murphy felt that in so email a country action should be possible to removeL 3 end wondered why it hid not been done I pointed nut that we had as yet no policy approval for such action but that we were active In identifying and making contact with opposition elements both within Ii 3 and in exile 1 described some of the dif culties such eel to Jeontroi oi the arms in the palace and his widespread penetration of opposition plotting thet her Just resulted in the rolling up of a coup attempt by 7 nanny officers 5 Mr Gray noted that he seen in the newspapers 3 report of our recent decision to allow Redo Liberty to hroedcest in Rnssian to the Soviet troops in Cuba lie was heartilyr in terror of such action but wondered how we were shie to obtain approval of it when the Administration seems so anxious to avoid actions that might appear to he provocative to the Soviets iniormed him that here had in fact been some delay in obtaining the approval 6 Both the gentlemen asked for detailed information on the structure end workings of the Latin American Policy Cummittee and asked whether we felt this committee in any way hampered or interfered with the approval process in the Special Group I said that both Chief 1Ill ii and myself were well pleased with the may the LAPC operates and believed it to be highly useful i then briefed them on actions which were taken in Southeast Arie particularly the measure to strengthen the border police in the ID 31 told them that 3 3 revere of these ctions end they wanted to be certain i was clearly instructed prior to his departuref 3 Both men objected to press reports that certain Administration amen believed the Soviets to be exerting a helpful and restraining in uence in Laos I had to agree with them that it sures hard to maintain View in the fees of the increesing aggressiveness of the Pathst Leo and 1 described the existing policy limits on our relations withC 1 antic i then described the present state of the Soviet-Chinese 2 CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE AS 1998 7_ - - RELEASED PER JFK ACT i '91 and some of our efforts to exploit and exacerbate these tensions Mr Murphy united for specific lnl ermetion on the extent of trade if 311 - htween China And the Soviet Union and the amount of the out- standing Chinese debt to the Soviets i agreed to provide this via Mr Coyne Mr Grey asked about the depth and extent at our intelligence from Peking end the China mainland and was criticel of the information supplied to us by the Chinese Netiooaliste I seid that intelligence operatione in China were not my field but that I would make sure that a report on this did get to them 9 I went on to describe the cultural ferment within Rue-ii and recent entice Khrushchev had taken to discipline the dissident writers end artists They were very much interested in the ections refined teken to exploit this situation and particulerly interested in the current issue of Encounter and in the account therein of the Khrushchev tirade at the recent art exhibition 10 On Cube I explained that I was not in a position to brief them in depth and my questions in this field would be handled by the Director or DDP 1 did however brief them on the Krulek Committee end the recent meetings in Managua regarding meaeures that could be taken to limit the export of subversion from Cube 1 here sent to them via Pet Coyne the CIA Memorandum on the present scope of the Cuban subversive training effort i l 1 described the covert support to tnec 9 jpditkll P ftl for the farthcoming periiementery election as approved by the Special Group Mr Murphy had not previously known of the decision to lend some eel ective support to the 7 iand deec ribed this decided with eonze surprise es quite I 12 pgnuly when informed of the policy ilmitations on our relations with that 1 1 f 3 Mr Murphy expressed himself as being in egreemeut with those limitations and seemed to feel that the best course to follow one to assist the 6 3 Government in its attempts to control the situation He said that h h d met recently for the first time withE in New York last week and eves not impressed by the man CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE AS SANITIZED 1998 d RELEASED PER Pie-1024260514 ACT I I 1 3 The meeting wu throughout a cordial one and I dotOCt d Agency covert no evidence of a critical attitud- towards the no Frag CORD MEYER JR Chief Covert Action Staff Distribution 0113- - Director CIA 1 - Exec Dir'clar irsmenc KL REHEW 92 14 RELEASE AS 1998 RELEASED PER JFK ACT I 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