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-TOP ~ECREi It is particularly important in light of changes which were subsequently made in the covert action plan to note the language of the approved policy with reference to the paramilitary operation: Initially, a cadre of leaders will be recruited after careful screening and trained as paramilitary instructors. In a second phase, a number of parawilitary cadres will be trained at secure locations outside of the US so as to be available for immediate deployment into Cuba to organize, train, and lead resistance forces recruited there, both before and after the establish- ment of one or more active centers of resis- tance. At no point in this Presidentially-approved plan for covert action by the Agency is there any hint of invasion. The paramilitary activity was clearly to be in the context of guerrilla warfare with leader- ship and training to the dissident activities inside Cuba being provided by Cubans trained by United States , technicians. * Finally, with reference to the approved * Colonel Jack Hawkins (USMC) who was Chief, WH/4/PM correctly noted in his memorandum for record of PM operations for Project JMATE that: The only approved, ~ritten policy governing paramilitary action against Cuba is contained in paragraph 2c of the Policy Paper approved by the Presi- dent on 17 March 1960." (Emphasis added by author.) 51/ - 75 - TAP QFCQ FT