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COPY Room 2E980, The Pentagon Washington 25, D.C. 13 Jme 1961 Dear Mr. President: By your letter of April 2.2, 1961, you charged me in association with Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Admiral Arleigh Burke, and Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles to study our governmental practices and programs in the areas of military and paramilitary, guerrilla and anti-guerrilla activity which fell short of outright war with a view to strengthening our work in this area. You directed special attention to the lessons which can be learned from the recent events in Ma. On May 16, our Cuban Study Group submitted to you an interim oral report of .our conclusions as of that date. We are now prepared to make our final report to you orally, supported by the following memoranda: Memorandum No. 1 "Narrative of the Anti-Castro Operation ZAPATA" Memorandum No. 2 "Immediate Causes of Failure of the Operation ZAPATA" Memorandum No. 3 "Conclusions of the Cuban Study Group" Memorandum No. 4 "Reconunendations of the Cuban Study Group" In your letter of April 22, you invited me to submit an individual report subject to the review and comment of my associates. As we have fomd no Qliiicul'ty in reaching a manimous view on all essential points mder consideration, we are submitting this view as a jointly agreed study. In closing, may I express our view of the great importance of a prompt implementation of our first recommendation to establish a Strategic Resources Group supported by a Cold War Indications Center which will allow our government readily to focus its resources on the objectives which you set in the so-called Cold War? We feel that we are losing today on many fronts and that the trend can be reversed only by a whole-hearted union of effort by all Executive departments and agencies of the Government mder your guidance. Sincerely yours, Maxwell D. Taylor The President The White House 2734' ef