336. Memorandum by Director of Central Intelligence McCone0
Washington, May 7,
1962.
SUBJECT
- Operation Mongoose
- 1.
- Three controlled resistance teams equipped with communications equipment now in Cuba.
- 2.
- Five or six additional teams are expected to be infiltrated during May.
- 3.
- [2-1/2 lines of source text not declassified]
- 4.
- Extensive penetrations into Cuban-Latin American activities. Legal travelers into Cuba from innumerable Western European and Latin American countries are being used.
- 5.
- [3 lines of source text not declassified] In addition the Opa Laka interrogation center is producing about 200 intelligence reports each week which are of value and some 300 Cuban agents in Miami are assembling substantial quantities of important intelligence from the refugee colony.
- 6.
- Regular U-2 missions are run over Cuba. 90% to 95% of all Cuban territory has been photographed. 14,000 frames have been carefully studied by the interpretation center during the past three weeks to verify Order of Battle information. Every report of construction, armament locations, gossip about missiles, etc., is immediately studied and, if necessary, new photographs taken to verify our dispute.
John A.
McCone1
- Source: Central Intelligence Agency, DCI (McCone) Files: Job 80-B01285A, Box 6, DCI Meetings with the President, 1 December 1961-30 June 1962. Secret; Eyes Only. Filed with materials relating to McConeʼs meetings with the President, which suggests that he used the memorandum to brief President Kennedy on Operation Mongoose.↩
- Printed from a copy that bears this typed signature.↩