Central Intelligence Agency - Memorandum of MONGOOSE Meeting in the JCS Operations Room, October 26, 1962, at 2:30 p.m. lyrics

[REDACTED] ...Item 2N was approved and Mr. Gilpatric undertook to expedite the construction work necessary to establish the 50 KW radio transmitters in the Floriday Keys. (DonWilson has charge of this project). Item 2L was removed from MONGOOSE responsibility. It was decided that a new Cuban political office to plan for the post-invasion government of Cuba would be secretly set up by the State Department. All other items in the Lansdale paper were held in abeyance. The group reaffirmed that Lansdale is to be in charge of the MONGOOSE operations which will cover all covert activities of any department of government, including State, CIA, USIA, etc. The infiltration of agents is to be held up pending a determination by the Department of Defense through General Carroll, as to just what military information is desired and determination by State, through Alexis Johnson, as to just what political information is desired. General Lansdale is then to determine/a**ets available in the government (all of which rest in CIA) can produce the information desired by Defense and STate, and then program a procedure to be followed. It is expected that Lansdale will make these determinations at the earliest moment and confer further with the committee or individual representatives thereof. John A. McCone Director