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XOP 3r::Cf{ET President presided and the meeting was attended by the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, the Director of the Office of Civil & Defense Mobiliza- tion, the Acting Attorney General, a representative of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, among others, Messrs. Bissell, King, Esterline, and McMahan of the Central Intelligence Agency.*- 17/ A great deal of the briefing was devoted to the FRO and its leadership -- their policies, their back- ground, and the internal difficulties and bickering. The propaganda picture also was discussed, with partic- ular emphasis again on radio broadcasts from Swan Island. Gen. Cabell stated that the paramilitary plan was to develop a force of 500 men who would qe divided into 25 20-manteams. Theteam~ would go into Cuba to organize and to train indigenous dissident, groups. Cabell emphasized that the implementation of the paramilitary program depended on the existence * Knight McMahan was on the Staff of the Deputy Director for Intelligence -- that component of the Central Intelligence Agency which, according to some of the "authorities" on the Bay of Pigs, was presum- ably uninformed and unaware of the Agency's anti- Castro program. - 260 - r 0 P S l-:eRET