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~Ot" SECRET Prop, will be used in Cuban propaganda" -- something of an understatement!*" 26/ * Logic would seem to indicate that if WH/4's princi- pals could not subscribe "to the results of Free survey's that WH/4/PP might have been tasked to make a serious study of the impact which Castro's propaganda and his achievements were having on the will of the Cuban public to resist outside interference. In an interview with the author of this history, Dave Phillips stated that Enno Robbing had provided the editorial guidance for WH/4's propaganda efforts; but that to his (Phillips's) knowledge, no study ever was conducted of the Castro propaganda effort. In retrospect, Ph~llips indicated that this probably was an oversight. 27/ ~ - On the subject of surveys of questionable value during the Bay of Pigs Operation, mention should be made of a contract JMATE negotiated with Klein and Saks to initiate a survey of Cuba's present [May 1960] economic position that will also contain an outline of proposals that would sound [sic] as a platform for a suc- cessor government to the Castro regime. The cost, which will be borne by JMARC, will be about $20,000. This is merely the first phase of the projected comprehensive economic program. Why, with CIA's in-house economic talent (in the Economic Research Area of the Office of Research and Reports) and the surfeit of government economists fa- miliar with Latin America, WH/4 thought it necessary to negotiate an outside contract for a study such as indicated is truly incomprehensible! That the Klein and Saks contract was not blocked at the DDP or DCI level is equally incomprehensible. The company's "Preliminary Outline of Economic and Financial Govern- ment Platform to Serve the Interests of the People of Cuba and to be Compatible with the Interest of the Hemisphere and the Free World of Which Cuba is a Part" which was presented in typescript -- was 15 pages of platitudes about the best of all possible worlds. 28/ - 226 - --rop SECf{ 8'