UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE PROGRAM “ALFA”
JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM INENTIFICATINO FORM
AGENCY: JCS
RECORD NUMBER: 202-10001-10126
RECORDS SERIES: J-3
AGENCY FILE NUMBER: DOC 127
TITLE: UNCONVENTIAL WARFARE PROGRAM “ALFA”
SUBJECTS: CUBA CONTINGENCY PLANNING
VANCE MEMO FOR DESMOND FITZGERALD
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September 3, 1963
MEMORANDOM FOR MR. DESMOND FITZGERALD Central Intelligence Agency
SUZBJECT: A
Study on Capabilities and Employment of Selected Cuban Resources for Special
Operations Against Cuba and a Concept of Operations (TS)
Enclosed is a study of the above subject which was
prepared by the Department of the Army and which includes the comments of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Although the factual data in the plan is forwarded for
your use in the planning and conduct of special operations of the scope and
nature outlined in the program approved by the Standing Group of the National
Security Council and Higher Authority in June 1963.
The initial phases of the
approved program, which have already been completed with considerable success,
suggest the value of developing a complete inventory of covert actions which
are geared to specific target areas within Cuba.
The targets selected should be
of such diversity as to encompass political, military, economic and
psychological objectives.
The purposes of compiling such an inventory would be
the provision of a spectrum of actions
which could be undertaken after a timely assessment of the situation following
successive operations and which should be designed to form an unpredictable pattern
of action while retaining essential momentum.
It is contemplated that this objectives of the
approved covert policy which seeks “to encourage dissident elements in the military
and other power centers of the Regime to bring about the eventual liquidation
of the Castro-communist entourage and the elimination of the Soviet presence in
Cuba,.”
Signed
Cyrus R. Vance – Secretary of the Army
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