13-00000 _ 'l· 1 _· i fi· i L _ _ -- - _ v _ 20 June 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD SUBJECT Minutes of Meeting of the Special Group 20 June 1963 PRESENT Mr Bundy Mr Gilpatric Mr McCone and Mr Hughes Colonel King was present for Item 3 Mr Colby was present for Item 4 Mr Critchfield was present for Item 6 l 0 co is ance of ou ast 1 Mr McCone reported that all high-performance missions scheduled for this area had been held up during the past week due to bad ea herJ _ - ·-· _ ---- - ·c _ ·· _ ______ _ Sabotage Program Cuba In connection with the new Cuba sabotage program approved yesterday Mr McCone suggested that CIA make a report to the Special Group every two weeks The Group agreed with this procedure They felt that such a report need not be in written form nor very elaborate and that it should consist of a briefing on activities during the preceding period and those planned for the next one Mr Bundy commented that keeping the Group informed in this way constitutes protection to the operators since all a encies concerned are thereby given a continuing_feeling of just what is going on 3• T tit p f t I 1 i 7 rff ·· - The CIA paper of 17 June was approved Mr McCone said he has some reservations about the quality of any possible replacements for Duvalier but agreed that it is necessary to take some action in order to prevent Haiti eventually going very far to the left Colonel King in support of the paper's recommendations said that in his opinion we have no feasible aliernatives but to cooperate with Bosch in attempting to unseat Duvalier and that if this is not done we are likely to end up with a far worse situation Mr Hughes told the Group that the State Department shares the· reservation about the quality of alternatives but it also recognizes the necessity of taking some action He said the ·Department is principally worried about the possibility that the U S hand in any such operation mi ht be revealed_ 13-00000 - 2 - r Colonel ing' cautioned that we ·will not be in a position to knowl-iiow many' useful exiles can be recruited until we give it· a try ·Mr McCone and Colonel King said that probably the most pro1 mising way in which the desired objective can be obtained is eventually to accomplish the defection o f significant eleme11ts of -- h -- the Palace Guar · c9 · • ··-- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 Monthly • - ----· ------ port''on' N - ·· vietnam Operations Mr Colby gave a report on results of operations during the past month and those planned for the immediate future s -· I so g Trallling' of-SptfcriI Arm -Jn ir-- rt··· ··' The Group approved the State-CIA proposal to hold the Congo paramilitary project originally approved on 29 November 1962 in abeyance 1 ' J 6 1'1 r Ll-r_a__q_-_s_o_v_i_e_t_Ma_t_e_r_i_e_l_O_b_j _e_c_t_i_v_e__s__a_n_d_R_e l a_t e_d_P_r-o_b_l-e_m___ s I I r _ The Group approved the recommendations contained in CIA' s paper of the 19th of June Mr McCone pointed _out that this sort of action could conceivably1 proposal immediately at hand is carefully limited The Group agreed that approval of these recommendations does not imply any sort of commitment to additional actions 7t i I 'I I rans for Immediate Future Mr Bundy asked Mr McCone to act as Chairman of the Special Group next week if he wishes to have a meeting During the time that the Presidential party is away DOD peripheral flights p rticularly in the urop a a _sh ' lld _be c rE fo l screened J r··••r•- - Thomas A Parrott Distribution Mr Johnson Mr Gilpatric Mr McCone f' 'r·r '-· j _ • I I i • lead into considerably broader activities and emphasized that the ' · · Rt· T - _ · - 3 - Ghat the U S • government stands behind previous ly-expresscd connnitments to ensure that India does not use its own increased military ·strength to mount an attack on Pakistan I• ' i It was agreed that State and Defense should draft a paper for higher authority outlining this proposed approach to the Pakistan government with a CIA representative participating in the drafting of the paper to the extent necessary to assure that the intelligence interests and the views of the Special Group are adequately reflected ·---· - - --· -- -·--· - ' - - - ' M Thomas A Parrott Distribution Mr Johnson Mr Gilpatric Mr McCone I