a x 721 1 90 529 #42 - SENSITIVE COMMISSION ON CIA ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES Washington DC 20500 April 30 1975 DECLASSIFIEB J-EK Assess Rot Ct iestion Ac of 92 4 MEMORANDUM datem 33% TO File From Mason Cargill HKLI Subject MONGOOSE MATERIALS RETAINED BY THE CIA Joseph Selzer of the Inspector General staff made available to me all the materials he has been able to assemble from CIA sources concerning Project MONGOOSE These consist of three file folders and one loose leaf binder I have examined them to determine if any reference is made to assess nation liquidation or elimination of Castro ed Photocopy from Gerald R Ford Library The first document in this pile is a copy of the minutes of the August 10 1962 meeting of the special group augmented prepared by Tom Parrot They were forwarded to Dr Chamberlain the CIA Inspector General by prroy Ratliff a CIA employee detailed to the National Security Council A cover memo of April 18 1975 tsseuiached 1nay be of some interest and reads as follows We a request from Belin of the Vice President's Commission to examine our files on MONGOOSE and other Cuban and D R files While this request has not been resolved the preliminary response is not to allow this access Signed - The minutes of the August 10 1962 meeting contained no mention implicit or explicit of assassination The first complete file examined was a long green cardboard file without a title on it Inside however it is indicated to be a record of Special Group meetings and - SENSITIVE - SENSITIVE 2 Special Group Augmented meetings at which General Carter participated and discussions of Cuba and or Cuban overflights during the period August 15 to November 14 1962 This file contains a memorandum dated October 16 1962 from General Carter to the Special Group Augmented Subject Operation MONGOOSE Sabotage Proposals Paragraph 1c of this memorandum contains a proposal that the CIA undertake grenade attack on the Chinese Communist Embassy in Havana to be carried out by a recruited Cuban agent who has access to a roof overlooking the embassy garden and who has volunteered for this mission The second file in this collection is entitled simply This contains nothing relevant to the assassination inquiry Next in this collection in a large manila envelOpe on which is written in ink the following notation Separate cover attachment to This enveIOpe contains miscellaneous papers related to MONGOOSE The documents in this envelope contain among other things a long list of potential sabotage targets within Cuba I found no reference to assassination either explicit or implicit Declassi ed Photocopy from Gerald R Ford Library The next file examined is marked Cuba Special Subject This file also contains miscellaneous papers relating to Project MONGOOSE none of which contain any references to assassination The last item of this MONGOOSE package consists of a bulky loose leaf binder of papers assembled for General Carter's reference of significant things that happened during the period of August to October 1962 In this notebook the Inspector General has already flagged entries which refer in any way to Operation MONGOOSE I have examined all such entries - SENSITIVE Roch-Pan 9w amp Mm @131 15 mg Aim 30 1915 k CIA dem 0 IRMA as GauF Auqmd an 640a Gyms gamma Quad