Subject: CIA and Rusk: More friction re: Cuba
Date: 22 Jun 1999 22:19:39 GMT
From: atlasrecrd@aol.com (Atlasrecrd)
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Memorandum for the Record
Washington, June 24, 1963.

Source: Central Intelligence Agency, DCI/McCone Files, Job 80-B01285A.
Secret.
  Prepared by McCone.

SUBJECT
Meeting with Secretary Rusk--21 June 1963--re Cuba

 Details of the meeting are summarized in Mr. FitzGerald's memorandum,/1/
which
is complete. However I have the impression that Secretary Rusk is not
enthusiastically behind the CIA program. He seems to feel that there is some
opportunity of a rapprochement with Castro. I insisted on the meeting with
Rusk
because I sensed his reservations and, although he approved the program, it
was
obvious he did so reluctantly and I think the first evidence of "noise" will
call for reconsideration. This is a subject that I have discussed with him
on
several occasions in the past. Mr. Rusk offers no explanation for his
attitude
but it has prevailed for a long time. I made it abundantly clear during the
meeting, and privately to Secretary Rusk afterwards, that I felt a
rapprochement out of the question in view of the relationship between Castro
and Khrushchev resulting from Castro's trip. Therefore I felt nothing could
be
done until some event occurred which would impair this relationship.