Annex No. 7 Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum to the Secretary of Defense U. S. Plan of Action in Cuba
Supplemental material used in Maxwell Taylor's report on the Bay of Pigs operation.
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THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
Washington 25, D.C.
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27 January 1961
JCSM-44-61
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
Subject: U.S. Plan of Action in Cuba (c)
1. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are becoming increasingly
concerned with the situation presented by steadily increasing
military strength of the Castro Government and the tight grasp
of the Communists over the means of counter-revolution,
including the military, the police and governmental financial
resources as well as the organs of propaganda. Unless the
United States takes immediate and forceful action, there is
a great and present danger that Cuba will become permanently
established as a part of the Communist Bloc, with disastrous
consequences to the security of the Western Hemisphere. Cuba
provides a Communist base of operations for export of similar
revolutions to an already unstable and potentially explosive
Latin America.
2. The Joint Chiefs of Staff believe that the primary
objective of the United States in Cuba should be the speedy
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overthrow of the Castro Government, followed by the establish-
ment of a pro-U.S. Government which, with U.S. support, will
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