SELECTION OF (DELETED) AS MILITARY PLANNER FOR THE OPERATION AGAINST HAITI

Created: 11/6/1964

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REPORT CLASS CONFtoENTIA: COUNTRY: HAITI/CUBA SUBJ: SELECTION O? PLANNER FOR THE OPERATION AGAINST HAIT

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BY SAYING THAT ANY GROUP OF CUBANS CONNECTED

WITH THE OPERATION TARGETTED AGAINST. HAITI WOULD HAVE TO DEAL WITH

HIM BECAUSE HE WAS THE MILITARY PLANNER AND HAD CONSIDERABLE EX-

PERIENCE. ILANNER HE SHOULD BEO INSPECT THE ;

ARKS PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF THE. OPERATION. NO ONE RESPONDED

2; HEN SAID THAT THENEW MAN,

. SHOULD BE BRIEFED ON THE OPL^TION, USELESS

TO DISCUSSERS-MILITARY ASPECTS Or THE OPERATION, INCLUDING ARKS, EQUIPMENT,ECAUSEAS GOING TO BE THE UI LI TART

COMJiANDER AND THISUBJECT THAT SHOULD NOT BE DISCUSSED IN

' FRONT OF ANYONE ELSE. THE GROUP THEN LAUNCHEDZN BROUGHT THE MEETING BACK TO THE BUSINESS

AT HAND BY STATING THAT HE WAS GOING TO NEW YORK ON BUSINESS WOULD RETURN TO MIAMI IN ABOUT ONE WEEK TO DISCUSS FINAL

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OF SHIPS BEING AVAILABLE TO THEM, BUT HE WOULD NOT MAKE

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