Annex No. 11 Proposed Operation Against Cuba
Supplemental material used in Maxwell Taylor's report on the Bay of Pigs operation.
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1 1 MAR 1961
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PROPOSED OPERATION AGAINST CUBA
1. Status of Preparatory Action: About a year ago the Agency was
directed to set in motion: the organization of a broadly-based opposition
to the Castro regime; a major propaganda campaign; support for both
peaceful and violent resistence activities in Cuba; and the development of
trained paramilitary ground and air forces of Cuban volunteers.
A decision should shortly be made as to the future of these
activities and the employment or disposition of assets that have been
created. The status of the more important activities is as follows:
a. Political: Over a period of nearly a year, the FRD (Frente
Revolucioniaro Democratico), which was created in the hope that it would
become the organizational embodiment of a unified opposition to Castro,
has proved to be highly useful as a cover and administrative mechanism
but important political elements refused to join it.
Accordingly, a major effort was undertaken three weeks ago
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to form a more broadly-based revolutionary council which would include
the FRD, and which could lead to the setting up of a provisional government.
Considerable progress has been made in negotiations with the principal
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