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42. (Continued) operation. Bundy had not talked to Lansdale but obviously had recaived some of the “static” that is being passed around in Washington, (Before) MeCone in reporting on the discussions at Thursday's 5412 meeting repeated the views of the President and expressed by the Attorney General it was agreed that the wholes Government policy with reference to Cuba must be resolved promptly a8 basic to further actions on our part. In general, Bundy's views were that we should either make a judgment that we would have to go in militarily (which seemed to him intolerable) or alternatively we would have to learn to live with Castro, and hie Cuba and adjust our policies accordingly. . 4, McCone then elaborated on his views of the evolution of Soviet- Castro military capability stating he felt defense was just phase one, phase two would be followed by various offensive capabilities and indeed the existing defensive capabilities such as the (MIG) 2ls a very definite offensive capability against nearby American cities and {astallasions. MeCone stated that he thought that the establishment of a very expensive’dffensive mechanism could not be the ultimate objective of the Soviets or Castro and therefore the objective was (a) to establish an offensive base or (b) to insert sufficient Soviet specialists and military leaders to take Cuba away from Castro and ostablish it as a true Soviet controlled satellite, McCons stated that he felt there were only two courses open -- one was to take action at the appropriate time or secondly to puraue an effort to split Castro off from the Communists and for this reason he, McCone, had vigorously supported the Donovan mission as it is the only link that we have to the Castro hierarchy at the present time. Nots in this connection it might be well to study the evolution of the Toure experience in Guinea when the Communists moved in and captured all elements of the Government and economy and forced Toure to expel ths Ambassador and try to rectify the situation. There may be a parallel here. 5. MeCone reviewed the Eisenhower discussions. Bundy read the memorandum covering these discussions, Bundy stated that Adenauer did not expross the concern of the U.S. policy reflected by Eisenhower and reported in the memorandum. 6. Bundy rejected the idea of regular NSC meetings stating that every President has to organize his Government as he desixes and that the Eisenhower pattern was not necessarily adaptable to the Kennedy typs of administration. MeCone stated that if this is ths case he intended to request