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WP SECRE, let the body in on what we definitely have in mind; also, that any further cables which go out on this proposed operation are to be signed off by him. Examined in retrospect, it would appear that Mr. Helms had good reason to be nervous about the proposal!* 35/ B. Sabotage and other Exercises** Where WH/4/PP was successful in putting Radio Swan into operation and in supporting Station WRUL in * This proposal provided another of the very few in- stances where Mr. Helms' name surfaced in relation to a Bay of Pigs related problem. ** Because so many of the sabotage activities of the Cuban dissidents were uncoordinated, uncontrolled, and did nothing to impede the extension of Castro's control or lessen his support, the author has tried only to illustrate something of the scope of those sabotage operations over which the Wrl or WH/4 could exercise a degree of control. In responding to the Taylor Com- mittee's request for an assessment of the effectiveness of its sabotage program, the best that WHO could say was: There are numerous acts of sabotage re- ported from all provinces of Cuba. These acts included the burning of cane fields, damaging of power and cOa~unication lines and sugar mills, burning of schools and commercial buildings and damaging" of petro- leum and sugar refinery [sic]. It is,ex- tremely difficult to verify just what ''', sabotage damage were [sic] the result of our team's [sic] activities; however, they have claimed the burning of cane fields, the firing of commercial stores, [high] tension lines, and the damage to the oil refinery at Santiago de Cuba was the re- sult of a raider operation by one of our (footnote continued on following page) - 233 - rot' SI::CR L I