Memorandum No. 4 Recommendations of the Cuban Study Group
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13 June 1961
Memorandum No. 4
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RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CUBAN STUDY GROUP
Recommendation No. 1
A MECHANISM FOR TRE PLAMNING AND COORDINATION
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OF COLD WAR STRATEGY
1. The over-all problem in conducting Cold War operations is to be able to
coordinate; foster and focus all available and necessary assets on the echieve-
nent of objectives approved by the President. These assets are found in many
departments of the Government, but particularly in the Department of State,
the Department of Defense and the CIA. To use them effectively requires planning
and coordination across departmental lines vithout disturbing departmental
responsibility for the execution of agreed tasks arising from the Cold Wor
progrezs.
2. In the past, the requirements of Cold War actions have often been met
by veekly meetings of the 5412 Committee or by ad hoc task forces organized
to cops vith a particular situstion. This method is clumsy and lends itself
to a proliferation of short-lived committees which come and go without build-
ing up experience in a permanent staff and accusulating a body of knovledge
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reeded for improved future performance. The present proposal is to set up a
permant committee of representatives of under-secretariel rank from State,
Defense and CLA under a full-time Chairman reporting directly to the President.
This now organization (berein called tentatively the Strategic Resources
Group and abbreviated SRG) vould guide and coordinate Cold War strategy and
mintain & Cold War Indications Center where useful Cold War data would be
assembled and the vorld Cold War situation kept under constant reviev. (See
inclosure' A - Chart of SRG). The SRG vould replace the 5412 Committee, vould
assume the review of important covert operations now being conducted or to be
conducted under NSC 5412/2, and would undertake the development and recoumen-
dations of Cold War plans and programs for those countries or areas specifically
assigned to it by the President for that purpose.
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