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(Paul Nitze), and Tracy Barnes. The President approved the continuation of CIA's "current activities" despite warnings from the State re-presentatives regarding the "grave political dangers" to US relations with other members of the Organization of American States. The DOD was authorized to review the paramilitary plan with CIA and "the results of this analysis 7/* will be promptly reported to the President." - This reference to CIA-DOD cooperation probably was the result of the meeting between General Gray and Tracy Barnes on 18 January with reference to DOD's work on JCSM-44-6l. It is most difficult to understand why the Taylor Committee cavalierly ignored Secretary McNamara's failure to have responded to JCSM-44- 61. In retrospect it appears that the presidential interest in DOD-CIA cooperation provided a most opportune time for DOD to have pushed hard for a joint operation on the order of the proposals in JCSM-44-6l; but this never happened. Moreover, the State Department's reluctance to risk the harsh words and bitter recriminations that might originate from Latin America could have been brought into better focus. Memorandum No. 1 noted that in response to the President's request during the meeting of 28 January, the Joint Chiefs * Writer's emphasis. The Taylor Committee's reference to this briefing states that the results of the DOD review of the CIA plan "were to be promptly reported to the CIA." ~/ In- asmuch as it was to be a joint DOD-CIA review, the version in the text above would appear to be correct.