345. Memorandum From Gordon Chase of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy)0
Washington, May 28,
1963.
SUBJECT
- Cuban Exiles
Attached is a draft paper, prepared by the Cuban Coordinator, on the subject of U.S. policy towards exile unity. It is being circulated to Coordinating Committee members for comments and clearance.
[Page 824]The Coordinator recommends that the U.S. follow a “hands-off” policy towards exile efforts to achieve unity and that public statements of all U.S. officials be consistent with the recent Ed Martin statement,1 as amended. Judging from the tenor of the last Coordinating Committee meeting, I suspect that the draft will be approved with few substantive changes.2
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- Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, Cuba, Exiles, 5/63-6/63. Confidential. A handwritten “P.M.” follows the dateline.↩
- The statement is quoted in the paper. It was made on May 22 before the Senate Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees and is attached to a May 28 memorandum from Chase to Bundy, on U.S. policy toward exile unity. (Ibid.) See the Supplement.↩
- Bundy wrote the following on Chase’s covering memorandum: “Good: I have cleared this in principle with the President (altho I would not exclude a shift if Bobby felt strongly the other way).”↩