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ERS ONnt COPY e 16 March 1960 A A PROGRAM OF COVERT ACTION AGAINST THE CASTRO REGIME 1. Objective: The purpose of the program outlined herein is to bring about the replacement of the Castro regime with one more devoted to the true interests of the Duban people and more acceptable to the U.S. in such a manner as to avoid any appearance of U,S. intervention. Essentially the method of - accomplishing this end will be to induce, support) arid so fer as possible direct action, both inside and outside of Cuba, by a selected groups of Cubans of a sort that they might’ be expected to and could undertake on their own initiative. Since a crisis “a inevitably entailing drastic action in or toward Cuba could be @ | provoked by circumstances beyond control of the U.S. before the covert action program has accomplished ‘its ‘objective; "=< ' every effort will be made to carry it oyt in such a' way as pro- |. gressively to improve the capability of the U.S. to act ina crisis. 2. Summary Outline: The program contemplates four major courses of action: a. The first requirement is the creation of a responsi- ble, appealing and unified Cuban opposition to the Castro regime, publicly declared as such and therefore necessarily located es a ee ee OS ee ee ee mee