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488 “to intimidate so as to obtain …”: “Propaganda Action Plan in Support of Military Forces: D-Day Until the Fall of the Castro Regime,” n.d., National Security Archive web site, www.gwn.edu/~nhsachiv/

488 “Assassination was intended …”: CY, p. 134.

488 In late August: “Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (1975),” report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, chaired by Senator Frank Church, pp. 74-76.

488 These agents were in: interview of James O’Connell by Jim McDonald, September 25, 1978, House Select Committee on Assassinations, HSCA 189-10140-10362.

489 included those led: Felix I. Rodriguez, Shadow Warrior (1989), pp. 65-66.

489 “Poles, Germans, and Americans”: John Henry Stephens, Church Committee interview by Bob Kelley, May 30, 1975, NA.

489 On March 29, 1961: cables in Mason Cargill, Church Committee memo, March 21, 1975, CIA DPD file. NA. See also Russo, pp. 53-55. 489 “I was part of that…”: Blight and Kornbluh, p. 87.

489 “disposing of Castro”: CIA Targets Fidel: Secret 1967 CIA Inspector General’s Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro (1996), p. 26.

490 “the details were …”: ibid., p. 35.

490 “The White House has twice …”: ibid., p. 48. 490 “someone was supposed …”: CY, p. 139.

490 at least twenty people: CIA Targets Fidel, pp. 45-46.

491 “he had met…”: CG 92-349, 1960, HSCA records, NA.

491 “There’s a question …”: LL interview with Cartha DeLoach.

491 “particularly desires that no hint…”: McGeorge Bundy, memorandum of discussion on Cuba, January 28, 1961, reprinted in Mark White, p. 17.

492 Articles about the training: Peter Wyden, Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story (1979), p. 46.

492 124 members: conversation between JFK and Richard Helms, March 6, 1963, cassette D, telephone conversations, JFKPL.

492 Beyond that, the president: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., memorandum for the president, “Subject: Howard Handleman on Cuba,” and memorandum for the president, “Subject: Joseph Newman on Cuba,” March 31, 1961, FRUS.

493 “David will again …”: Washington D.C., February 17, 1961, NSC files, countries series, Cuba, general, 1/61-4/61, FRUS.

493 “Don’t forget…”: President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to President Kennedy, memorandum, Washington, D.C., March 15, 1961.

493 “I would have …”: Miami Herald, April 16, 2000.

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494 the CIA presented: NSC action memorandum 31, Washington, D.C., March 11, 1961, NSC files, FRUS.

495 “done a remarkable job …”: President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to President Kennedy, memorandum, Washington, D.C., March 15, 1961, NSC files, countries series, Cuba, FRUS.

495 “suitable for guerrilla…”: CIA, “Revised Cuban Operation,” Washington, D.C., March 15, 1961, NSC files, countries series, Cuba, FRUS.

495 “We were standing in …”: LL interview with Colonel Jack Hawkins.

495 “have the right…”: General Gray, summary notes prepared on May 9, 1961, NSC files, countries series, Cuba, “Subject: Taylor Report,” FRUS.

495 “the invasion force…”: Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense McNamara, memorandum, JCSM-166-61, Washington, D.C., March 15, 1961, “Subject: Taylor Report,” FRUS.

495 fifty-fifty chance of: “Review of Record of Proceedings Related to Cuban Situation, May 5,” Naval Historical Center, area files, Bumpy Road materials, Taylor Report, FRUS.

496 “a divorce between …”: Robert A. Hurwitch, KLOH.

496 “Since I think you lean …”: President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to President Kennedy, memorandum, Washington, D.C., February 18, 1961, FRUS.

496 “proscribe[d] the use …”: Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mann) to Secretary of State Rusk, memorandum, Washington, D.C., February 15, 1961, FRUS.

496 When the president asked: Commander in Chief, Atlantic (Dennison), to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Lemnitzer), memorandum, Norfolk, Va., March 28, 1961. An editorial note refers to the March 29, 1961, meeting. FRUS.

496 Kennedy insisted: Notes Relating to Instructions on