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-+0Ii SEcRET the memorandum he had prepared on this subject was being held in the files should questions about this particular Bureau activity ever be raised. King also recommended that the Agency not take the initia- tive in raising the question. 82/ Neither Col. King, nor anyone else involved in the anti-Castro operation ever registered a formal protest against the FBI's activities in the Havana area. By mid-summer 1960, the relationship became even Qloser, particularly as the Agency expanded activities at the Forward Operations Base, JMASH (later JMWAVE) in Miami. In one report concerning the number of the Cuban exiles in the Miami area who were under suspicion of or were -- working for Castro, or who were trying desperately to get sup- port from one or another US Agency, an FBI agent made a rather interesting forecast to the CIA repre- , sentative with whom he was exchanging information. According to the report from Miami, an FBI agent told me that his personal opinion was that it would be virtually impossible, if not completely impossible, to bring about the overthrow of the Castro regime using Cuban exiles. He thought the only solu- tion to the problem, and the one that stood the best chance of success, was to - 100 - - ,COli;) C cro J:T