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Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: This is a funny story. We were in the Latin American Summit Conference in late 1967. F: In San Salvador. J: Yes. We went to San Salvador and stayed in Ambassador [Raúl] Castro's house. Castro was just being appointed ambassador to Bolivia, so he was going

Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, I've forgotten the sequence of events--but he spent a lot of time on that Mongoose project destabilizing Castro, with Robert Kennedy. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Castro's water" and let it go at that. G: Wasn't it the reverse? Didn't the Cubans cut off our water supply? R: No. They threatened to. What they were trying to do was, of course, to hold us up for more money. G: Yes. R: What we did, we quick shipped

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on his advance men when it comes to--when they suggest that he should move into an ambassador's home. I was also on a Central American trip last summer and he stayed at the ambassador's--at Ambassador [Raul] Castro's home. very disgruntled because

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the Philippines. Lincoln used to shovel them out to me. Evelyn She knew I was a cigar smoker. F: One of the bonuses of the office, huh? W: One of the bonuses, one of the privileges, yes. F: Too bad we split with Castro. W: That was kind of painful. F

Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

back to the Pentagon. I went to the Pentagon in the operations business, and I was in the Ops directorate, and during the first part of the time I was in the Ops directorate was when Castro was coming to power, and I was an action officer in the Latin

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

it, you know. pose a danger of a CUban-style takeover . r1: Yes. PM: . . . by the Communists; and that Caamano Deno, for example was a potential Castro-type, at least, leader. Why did so many other obser- vers not see it that way? M: You're

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it a blockade. Blockade smacks of nineteenth century gunboat diplomacy. So instead, very--I think correctly and very smartly, they termed it a quarantine, meaning that the Cubans and Castro had some kind of terrible infectious disease and we wanted to hold them

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and Communist aliens. Now you could say certainly that with respect to Cuba, that this is something that was encouraged and applauded by the Soviet Union, as well as by Communist China. But you could not say with any degree of veracity that the Castro take

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

right here. fiat, now what kind of activities were being engaged in? L: Putting people ashore in Cuba was one. We hadn't written off Cuba; Castro didn't have the damn thing organized very well. The one plan that CIA had for mov ing in had been

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

communist-Marxist groups. One was a Castro-type, one was Chinese-type, one was a Soviet-type, and then you had the PRO, who were playing footsie with all of them. Marxist, though he claimed he wasn't. And Bosch basically was a And the Dominican chiefs

Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on agreeing on the terms by which the Castro government was expelled from the Council of the Organization of American States, thus expressing the incompatibility between the present Cuban government and the system of government in the rest of the western

Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the local group in Mrs. Lasker, I think, is her name. F: Ri ght. f"lary Lasker. A: And there was a good friend, former superintendent there, I can't remember his name. F: You mean Nash Castro? A: No, the one that was before him. F: Well, 11m

Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was greatly disturbed by the rumors that were going around the world about a conspiracy and so forth, and that he thought that it might--because it involved both Khrushchev and Castro--that it might even catapult us into a nuclear war if it got a head start

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

] Castro, and so on? C: Yes, I did. I talked to them. I didn't hold as many meetings as the Justice Department people did by a long shot, but on critical points I'd talk to them. F: Was your place considered kind of a command post, or was that somewhere

Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

because there was the possibility of having to go to the aid of cho Vice President in acne way. F: You wll 1 probably l1ave the same answer to the en largemeot of F'ldet Castro's activities in Cuba--as far as the reaction of the White House and lts

Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was just rambling in his conversation. "Could it have been Castro? Could it have been the Soviet Union?" And I told him no, that the investigation had been very thorough, that the Warren Commission had confirmed the conclusions of the FBI

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of all, where did you get the titles for the trips? C: We sat F: We who? C: My office staff primarily who got to be very good advance women in going arou~d and worked hard on cooking them up. Your office? out ahead of time, Nash Castro who went

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of that situation. He didn't "Nash Castro, handle this," sort of thing and IIl e t me knoH ,",hat you come up with." T: r:o, he never did that. went into it. He ~']QS a:-;are of the various considerations th.:tt And I recall Qt one time sitting

Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

together to talk about anything in the way of getting something up and helping people. And when the Soviets helped Castro get charge of Cuba, the first thing they made him do was to get rid of every cooperative like the credit union, savings and loans

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: I did. Helpful and supportive. I didn't call on her much. She was working with the Beautification Committee and with Udall and others, Nash Castro. I was aware of her interest and supporting position so that it was significant. B: I saw you

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the enemy might be gathering his forces to strike our people. It was a functional description. It made a lot of sense. If Castro were bombing all the United States and also offering to talk to us, and if he said, "All right, I'm going to stop bombing

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to the Bay of Pigs . Part of the effectiveness, if it's going to be effective, is to make this a surprise to the Castro government . Was it sort of an open secret in Florida that something was building up here? � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that it was a real botched job. Certainly he had no illusions that Castro was independent of the Soviet Union, but I just don't think I can really answer that question accurately. I don't think I have enough recollection of that period. G: What was his

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. looked suicidal. So to me it Initially, wh.en the very initial concept was maybe going up in the Sierra Madre again and serving a small guerrilla force there to counter the Castro government and gradually build up its Dona fi des an d be on its own

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)