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aa ae oe od operations, and advocated the use of a task force for covert operations having major international significance. "These operations", the survey stated, “may be aimed at the overthrow of a hostile regime and my require extensive paramilitary operations, ...... and clandestine logistics and air support of substantial magnitude. Such operations must be coordinated with national policy on a continuing basis, and may require constant high-level liaison with the State Department and the White House. To be successful, major covert operations of this nature require the effective mobilization of all the resources of the DD/P, and are clearly beyond the capabilities of any one area division." The same survey added that the Caribbean task force located in the WH Divisio wes planning at a great rate, but accomplishing little because it was too low-level to act decisively or to obtain effective policy guidance from other departments of the Government 3 it did not even inspire confidence among many senior pp/P officers. Such task forces within a single division "represent a woefully inadequate response to a problem of major national significance. Command of such a task force mst be a full-time Job, and the task force commander must be of sufficient stature to deal directly with the Under Secretary of State or with other senior officials of the government as the need arises."