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.xOP SCCRE, Maritime Branch representatives also discussed beach gradient problems with the Marine Corps aL~ repre- sentatives of the Navy's Hydrographic Office_ rt was ascertained that much work needed to be don~ in order to upgrade information suitable for p~aDDiDg the use of LST's for beaching and, landing of troops and vehicles. 74/ In the weeks immediately following Eisenhower's announcement of the anti.;...Castro policy, tt.-:: Department of State seemed to be operating in a world of its own making elaborate plans for Cuban briefings and the flow of information on Cuba's internal develcpmemts. On 25 March, for example, Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs. was the originator of an elaborate memoran~mn which provided a check list,of current operatior.E ~d ten categories of activity related to developw-::nts Ln Cuba. From the tenor of the paper itself, it se~s as though Rubottan was ignorant of the Cuba.::. issues before the Special Group, of the discussio~s ·aillODg CIA, State, and Department of Defense, and of the President's approved plan for covert actic~. ~or was there any evident awareness of the var:'-:JU3 o'J:"ert -'-OP FiFCrJ JAr