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The President told Mr. Dulles he thought he [Dulles] should go ahead with the plan and the operations. He and the other agencies involved should take account of all likely Cuban reactions and prepare the actions that we would take in response to these ••• The President said he would like some groundwork laid "with the OAS to let the Latin American countries know that if the Cubans were to start to attack our people in Cuba we would be obliged to take action The President said that at the next meeting, he would want to know what is the sequence of events by which we see the situation developing -- specifically what actions are we to take. He said our hand should not show in anything that is done. In the meantime State should be working on what we can do in and out of the OAS ••• Essentially, the job is to get the OAS to support us. 48/ During the course of this meeting, Secretary of the Treasury Anderson exhibited great concern over the welfare of the US firms which had investments in Cuba; and he was push1ng for US intervention to protect these private property rights. The Pr~sident, how- ever, cut him rather short on this. Vice President Nixon, too, indicated some concern with the American business interests in Cuba; and suggested that steps might be taken to cut off the flow of new capital in- vestment by US firms in Cuba, terminating private - 73 - ......;pi i'5 <: iC i t, L i