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them to direct their efforts against Castro. The DCI proposed that CIA should take the lead in assisting these groups to develop friendships among various of the Latin American Governments which were skeptical of Castro and that the Agency should be responsible for identifying and training -- in facilities in the United States or elsewhere -- those who would be the leaders of the Cuban guerrilla warfare groups. At the conclusion of the 14 March meeting, it was agreed that the Agency would revise the paper on the basis of the discussions and plan to .present it to President Eisenhower later in the week. 45/ As part of the effort to improve the paper on the proposed anti-Castro operations, the Agency pre- pared additional backup material which could be cranked into the version which would eventually go to the President. On 14 and 15 March, the records reveal copies of two drafts of such a paper, one of which was labeled as -revised version, done by [C. Tracy] Barnes, evening 14 Mar,· which went into more detail. on both the political opposition to Castro and on the propaganda activities that were bei~g mounted against Castro. These papers also noted that paramilitary - 69 - TOp S;:CCDCT