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.:rap SECRET whose position re the new administration is different than Mr. Herter's, to go to Mr. Kennedy in person and seek to get him committed. It would be very difficult for State people to try to approach Mr. Kennedy via Mr. Rusk and Mr. Bowles. 15/ During the 21 December 1960 meeting of the Special Group, Allen Dulles briefed the attendees on a meeting that he had participated in the previous . day in New York, with a group of American business- men. The meeting had been called by Henry Holland, who was one of the principal fund raisers for the FRO, and in attendance at .this meeting were the Vice President for Latin America of Standard Oil of New Jersey, the Chairman of the Cuban-American Sugar Company, the President of the American Sugar Domino Refining Company, the President of the American & Foreign Power Company, the Chairman of the Freeport Sulphur Company, and representatives 'from Texaco, International Telephone and Telegraph, and ot~er , American companies with business interests in Cuba. The tenor of the conversation was that it was time for the US to get off of dead center and take some direct action against Castro. Suggestions were made to sabotage the sugar crop -- the question being whether to burn the cane - 182 - Ter 3r!Cft C'*F