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.lOP SECRET personal and rigid. These views in our opinion are inimical to the best interest of the United States. Mr. Pawley has re- fused to budge from his position and has continued to seek official endorsement of his views at the high levels of the goverL- ment. The flagrant disregard for security reflected in Havana cable 4820 dated 4 June 1960 requires Chief, JMARC to recommend that all contact with the Rubio- Pawley group be immediately and finally severed. If such action is not taken, no guarantee can be made for the security of the JMARC operation. In" point of fact, the information in the foregoing message indicates that security already has been damaged sev~rely. 12/ Among other things, the Havana cable which hac aroused Chief, WH/4 stated that the following infor- mation was being circulated in anti-Castro circl:s ~ Cuba: US Government now backing Rubio group and no other group. Group has entre to Veep. For a time Pawley was having trouble with an Agency or Agencies who wa~ted [to] back another junta, but after Pawley offered [to] withdraw completely, he was talked· out of doing so, and given assurance his group only would be backed, [and this] resulted resignation person backing other group. 13/ Headquarters prepared a priority cable to ~e sent to both Havana and to the Forward Operatior~ Base, which had also picked up the disinformatic~ being spread by the anti-FRO group. The text 0= th~ - 256 - rep gCCR: ET