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This is a memorandum to the President from Maxwell Taylor on his study of the Bay of Pigs.
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Maxwell Taylor Memo to the President Paramilitary Study Report. June 13, 1961
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Maxwell Taylor Memo to the President Paramilitary Study Report. June 13, 1961
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This is a memorandum to the President from Maxwell Taylor on his study of the Bay of Pigs.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy: Presidential Papers: National Security Files
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Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuba, 1961
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SANITIZED COP
Room 25980. The Pentagon
Washington 25, D. c.
13 June 1961
Deer Mr. President:
By your letter of April 22, 1961, you charged me in association
w1 th Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Adairal Arleigh Burke and Director
of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles to stuny our governmental practices
and programs in the areas of militery and paramilitary, guerrilla and
anti-guerrilla activity which fell short of outright war with a view to
strengthening our vork in this area. You directed special attention to
the lessons which can be learned from the recent events in Cuba.
On May 16, our Cubnn Study Group submitted to you e interin oral
report of our conclusions as of that date. We are now prepared to make
our finel report to you orally, supported by the following memoranda:
Merorandum No. 1 "Narrative or the Anti-Castro Operation ZAPATA"
Menorandum No. 2 Causes of Failure of the Operation
GAPATA'
Memorandun No. 3 Conclusions of the Cubnn study Group"
Menorandum No. 4 "Recomendations or the Cuban Gtudy Group"
In your letter of April 22, you invited me to an individual
report subject to the review and comment of lyy associates. As ve have
found no difficulty in reaching a unanimous view on all essential prints
under consideration, ve are submitting this view as a jointly agreed
study.
In closing, my I express our vicw of the great inportance of a
prompt implementation of our first recozzendation to establish a
Strategic Resources Group supported by a Cold War Indications Center
which vill allow our governnent readily to focus its resources on the
objectives which you set in the so-called Cold War? We feel that ve
are losing today on many fronts and that the trend con be reversed only
by a whole-hearted union of effort by all Executive departments and
agencies of the Govertment under your guidance.
Sincerely yours,
MAXWELL D. TAYLOR
The President
DECLASSIFIED SANITIZED
£ 0. 11652, Se:. 11
The White House
OSDERM 4/27/79; use count CIACLAS 5/2/7
By mba- NARS, Date 5/9/17