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<"fOP SEC~E I of us business groups as a cover for the Agency's support of the Cuban opposition, particularly the use of US business as a funding mechanism, was also hazardous in the eyes of the author of the memorandum under study. If the author was correct in assuming that this cover would not withstand careful scrutiny, it would mean that the anti-American contingents would have additional ammunition to use against the us. The memorandum suggested that many of these risks could be eliminated if propaganda activities were moved to Third countries and if fund raising activi- ties were run out of Latin America or Western Europe. 29/ Based on the language, the familiarity with the Guatemala activity and the nature of the critique, it is probable that Tracy Barnes wrote the memorandum in question. The memorandum may have been prompted in part by the increasing attention which the aCB and the Cabinet had been giving to fire bomb attacks on the Cuban cane fields by light aircraft flying out of the United States. The Agency fully supported Gen- eral Quesada's effort to put an end to such flights.* 30/ * Quesada was Director of the Federal Aviation Agency •. - 56 - TOP SFPRPGf