William Kelly Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 1961-1963 Volume X Cuba, 1961-1962 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Washington Editor Louis J. SmithGeneral Editor David S. Patterson United States Government Printing Office Washington 1997 DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 10409 OFFICE OF THE HISTORIAN BUREAU OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Mail Stop: SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-9328 ISBN 0-16-045209-0 Contents Preface (KB) Kennedy Administration Volumes ( KB) Sources (KB) List of Abbreviations (KB) Persons (KB) Cuba, 1961-1962 Documents and Memoranda Series: 1 through 15 (63KB) 16 through 30 (93KB) 31 through 45 (90KB) 46 through 60 (107KB) 60 through 75 (82KB) 76 through 90 (73KB) 91 through 105 (48KB) 106 through 120 (116KB) 121 through 135 (31KB) 136 through 150 (27KB) 151 through 165 (35KB) 166 through 175 (138KB) 176 through 180 (60KB) 181 through 195 (84KB) 196 through 200 (80KB) 201 through 209 (123KB) 210 through 215 (51KB) 216 through 225 (105KB) 226 through 235 (120KB) 236 through 255 (71KB) 256 through 270 (68KB) 271 through 285 (81KB) 286 through 300 (85KB) 301 through 315 (95KB) 316 through 330 (57KB) 331 through 345 (59KB) 346 through 360 (137KB) 361 through 375 (127KB) 376 through 390 (64KB) 391 through 405 (107KB) 406 through 420 (72KB) 421 through 443 (104KB) [end of document] SOURCE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Kelly Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 The State Department web site below is a permanent electronic archive of information released prior to January 20, 2001. Please see www.state.gov for material released since President George W. Bush took office on that date. This site is not updated so external links may no longer function. Contact us with any questions about finding information. NOTE: External links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein. FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 1961-1963 Volume X Cuba, 1961-1962 </B>DEPARTMENT OF STATE Washington List of Persons Amory, Robert, Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency Anderson, Admiral George W., Chief of Naval Operations after August 1961 Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, February-December 1961; thereafter Under Secretary of State Barnes, C. Tracy, Assistant Deputy Director (Plans) for Covert Action, Central Intelligence Agency Battle, Lucius D., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary until May 1962 Beerli, Colonel Stanley W., Chief of Air Operations, Branch 4, Western Hemisphere Division, Directorate for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency Berle, Adolph A., Chairman of the Department of State Task Force on Latin America Bissell, Richard M. Jr., Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency, until February 1962 Bowles, Chester A., Under Secretary of State, January-December 1961; thereafter Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs Brubeck, William H., Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State, August 1961-May 1962; thereafter Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary Bundy, McGeorge, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Bundy, William P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Burke, Admiral Arleigh A., Chief of Naval Operations until August 1961 Cabell, General Charles P., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence until January 1962 Carter, Lieutenant General Marshall S., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from April 1962 Castro Ruz, Fidel, Cuban Prime Minister Castro Ruz, Raul, Cuban Minister of the Armed Forces Chayes, Abram J., Legal Adviser of the Department of State from February 1961 Clark, Rear Admiral John E., Commander of Special Task Group 81.8 Coerr, Wymberley DeR., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Cleveland, J. Harlan, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from February 1961 Craig, Brigadier General William H., Department of Defense Project Officer for Operation Mongoose until June 1962 Crimmins, John H., Deputy Director of the Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State, until February 1962; thereafter Director of the Office Decker, General George H., Army Chief of Staff Dennison, Admiral Robert L., Commander in Chief, Atlantic Dillon, C. Douglas, Secretary of the Treasury Dobrynin, Anatoliy F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States after March 1962 Donovan, James B., lawyer involved in efforts to secure the release of prisoners captured at the Bay of Pigs Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence until November 1961 Dungan, Ralph A., Special Assistant to the President Earman, J. S., Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence until April 1962 Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States until January 1961 Elder, Walter, Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence from April 1962 Esterline, J. D., Chief of Branch 4, Western Hemisphere Division, Directorate for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency Gilpatric, Roswell L., Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 1961 Goodwin, Richard N., Assistant Special Counsel to the President until November 1961; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Gray, Major General David W., Chief of the Subsidiary Activities Division, Plans and Policy, Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff Guevara Serna, Ernesto (Che), President of the Cuban National Bank Harris, Brigadier General Benjamin T., Department of Defense Project Officer for Operation Mongoose from June 1962 Harvey, William K., Chief of Task Force W, Directorate for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency; Project Officer for Operation Mongoose Hawkins, Colonel Jack, Chief of Paramilitary Operations, Branch 4, Western Hemisphere Division, Directorate for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency Helms, Richard M., Chief of Operations, Directorate for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency, until February 1962; thereafter Deputy Director for Plans Hilsman, Roger, Jr., Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from February 1961 Hurwitch, Robert A., Officer in Charge of Cuban Affairs, Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State until February 1962; Deputy Director, Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs, February-June 1962; thereafter Special Assistant for Cuban Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs; also Project Officer for Operation Mongoose Johnson, Lyndon B., Vice President from January 1961 Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from April 1961 Kaysen, Carl, Member, National Security Council Staff, June-December 1961; thereafter Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Kennedy, John F., President of the United States from January 1961 Kennedy, Robert F., Attorney General from January 1961 Khrushchev, Nikita S., Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union King, Colonel J. C., Chief, Western Hemisphere Division, Directorate for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency Komer, Robert W., Member, National Security Council Staff Lansdale, Brigadier General Edward G., Deputy Assistant for Special Operations to the Secretary of Defense until May 1961; thereafter Assistant for Special Operations; also Chief of Operations for Operation Mongoose after November 1961 Lemnitzer, General Lyman L., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Macmillan, Harold, British Prime Minister Mann, Thomas C., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs until April 1961 Martin, Edwin M., Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until May 1962; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence from November 1961 McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense from January 1961 Mikoyan, Anastas I., First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Miro Cardona, Jose, President of the Cuban Revolutionary Council Morales-Carrion, Arturo, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Murrow, Edward R., Director of the United States Information Agency Nitze, Paul H., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from January 1961 O'Donnell, P. Kenneth, Special Assistant to the President Parrott, Thomas A., Assistant to the President's Military Representative Roa Garcia, Raul, Cuban Minister for External Relations Rostow, Walt W., Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until December 1961; thereafter Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State from January 1961 San Roman, Jose Perez, Commander of the Cuban Expeditionary Force Brigade Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., Special Assistant to the President Scott, Joseph W., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Shoup, General David M., Commandant of the Marine Corps Smith, Bromley, Acting Executive Secretary of the National Security Council until August 1961; thereafter Executive Secretary Somoza Debayle, General Anastasio, President of Nicaragua Sorensen, Theodore C., Special Counsel to the President Stevenson, Adlai E., Permanent Representative at the United Nations from January 1961 Taylor, General Maxwell D., Chairman of the Cuba Study Group, April-June 1961; President's Military Representative from July 1961 Thompson, Llewellyn, Ambassador to the Soviet Union Wheeler, Lieutenant General Earle G., Director of the Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff White, General Thomas D., Chief of Staff of the Air Force until June 1961 Woodward, Robert F., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, July 1961-March 1962 Ydigoras Fuentes, General Miguel, President of Guatemala [end of document] Return to Foreign Relations of the U.S., Vol. X, Cuba. 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Michael Hogan Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Bill, there's some fascinating documents in there. RFK's last sentence to his brother in this one is remarkably prescient. 157. Memorandum From the Attorney General (Kennedy) to President Kennedy Washington, April 19, 1961. Source: Kennedy Library, President's Office Files, Countries Series, Cuba, General, April 1961. No classification marking. A covering note indicates that the Attorney General sent the memorandum to the President through Presidential Special Assistant Kenneth O'Donnell. The present situation in Cuba was precipitated by the deterioration of events inside that state. The news that 100 Cuban pilots were being trained in Czechoslovakia, the information that MIGs and other jet planes had already been shipped to Cuba and that these shipments were expected to continue, that thousands of tons of military equipment had arrived each month in Havana, were all matters of consternation. Cuba it was realized was swiftly becoming a major military arsenal for all of the activities of the Communist Bloc in the Western Hemisphere. For these arms were sent to Cuba not only to keep Castro in power but to provide the necessary tools for Communist agitators in other South American and Central American countries to overthrow their governments. A hundred jet fighters based in Havana and roaming the skies around Florida and Central America will have major repercussions. The psychological effect, let alone the military result of this show of power could conceivably be catastrophic. The alternative to the steps that were taken this past week would have been to sit and wait and hope that in the future some fortuitous event would occur to change the situation. This, it was decided, should not be done. The immediate failure of the rebels' activities in Cuba does not permit us, it seems to me, to return to the status quo with our policy toward Cuba being one of waiting and hoping for good luck. The events in the last few days makes this inconceivable. Therefore, equally important to working out a plan to extricate ourselves gracefully from the situation in Cuba is developing a policy in light of what we expect we will be facing a year or two years from now!/1/ Castro will be even more bombastic, will be more and more closely tied to Communism, will be better armed, and will be operating an even more tightly held state than if these events had not transpired. /1/The Attorney General underscored the first sentence of this paragraph by hand, and added the exclamation point. Our long-range foreign policy objectives in Cuba are tied to survival far more than what is happening in Laos or the Congo or any other place in the world. Because of the proximity of that island our objective must be at the very least to prevent that island from becoming Mr. Khru-shchev's arsenal. In our concern over the present situation, we must not lose sight of our objective. There are three ways that that can be accomplished: Number (1) to send American troops into Cuba; Number (2) to place a strict military blockade around the island of Cuba; Number (3) to call upon the nations of Central and South America to take steps to insure that all arms from outside forces (both American and Russian) are kept out of Cuba. You have rejected Number (1) for good and sufficient reasons (although this might have to be reconsidered). Number (2) has the same inherent problems as Number (1) although possibly not as acute. On the other hand, it is a drawn-out affair which would lead to a good deal of worldwide bitterness over an extended period of time. The only way to carry it out successfully would be to be able to demonstrate to the governments of Central and South America that because of the MIG fighters, the tanks and equipment provided by the Communist bloc, that the whole hemisphere is in danger. From my limited knowledge of the situation I suppose it would be most difficult to get them to agree to concerted action. As for Number 3 and to some extent, Number 2, if it was reported that one or two of Castro's MIGs attacked Guantanamo Bay and the United States made noises like this was an act of war and that we might very well have to take armed action ourselves, would it be possible to get the countries of Central and South America through OAS to take some action to prohibit the shipment of arms or ammunition from any outside force into Cuba? At the same time they could guarantee the territorial integrity of Cuba so that the Cuban government could not say that they would be at the mercy of the United States. It seems to me that something along these lines is absolutely essential. Maybe this is not the way to carry it out but something forceful and determined must be done. Furthermore, serious attention must be given to this problem immediately and not wait for the situation in Cuba to revert back to a time of relative peace and calm with the U.S. having been beaten off with her tail between her legs. What has been going on in Cuba in the last few days must also be a tremendous strain on Castro. It seems to me that this is the time to decide what our long-term policies are going to be and what will be the results of those policies. The time has come for a showdown for in a year or two years the situation will be vastly worse. If we don't want Russia to set up missile bases in Cuba, we had better decide now what we are willing to do to stop it. http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/policy/docs/frusX/151_165.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Kelly Posted March 6, 2007 Author Share Posted March 6, 2007 Bill, there's some fascinating documents in there. RFK's last sentence to his brother in this one is remarkably prescient. 157. Memorandum From the Attorney General (Kennedy) to President Kennedy Washington, April 19, 1961..... Hi Mike, I agree. I have poured over many of the docs and found many gems, but the docs from this batch is supposed to go from 1961-63 but they only go to 1962. But it does give good insight into the inner workings. Glad somebody is getting something out of it. Let me know if anybody else finds something interesting. BK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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