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Telephone conversation # 11612, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN CONNALLY, 3/2/1967, 9:22PM (Item)

CONNALLY DISCUSSES INFORMATION HE HAS LEARNED FROM PRESS ABOUT JIM GARRISON INVESTIGATION, FIDEL CASTRO'S ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN JFK ASSASSINATION, CIA'S AND RFK'S ALLEGED EFFORTS TO KILL CASTRO; LBJ DISCUSSES ALLEGATIONS, RFK'S SENATE SPEECH

Telephone conversation # 11556, sound recording, LBJ and RAMSEY CLARK, 2/20/1967, 9:40AM (Item)

JIM GARRISON INVESTIGATION OF JFK ASSASSINATION; HALE BOGGS' COMMENTS; DREW PEARSON'S REPORT OF CIA'S ROLE IN EFFORTS TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO; ALLEGED WIRETAPS OF JIMMY HOFFA'S LAWYERS; CLARK REPORTS ON MIDWEST ATTITUDES ON VIETNAM, CIA, CRIME

Folder, "Meetings With the President -- 3 April 1964 - 20 May 1964," McCone Memoranda, Box 1 (Item)

to Fidel Castro. He said that he felt that the present raiding assets should be held in being pending resolution of Secretary Rusk's two points but that in the meanwhile the fundamental question should be debated. Mr. Vance said that he agrees

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

asked this other No one had ever asked Joe Kennedy, Jr. his religion when he took off on this special mission. great performance, and he was loving it. Lyndon went on, and it was a Then he would talk about [Fidel] Castro and he would say, "First, I'd

Telephone conversation # 7375, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM "RED" RABORN, 4/29/1965, 8:47AM (Item)

RABORN REPORTS ON SITUATION IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, VIETNAM; CASTRO AND COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN DOMINICAN REVOLT; RABORN REVIEWS US MILITARY POSITION THERE, COMMUNICATIONS DIFFICULTIES; OAS AND UN

Folder, "National Security Council - 1961 [1 of 3]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it, it was a persistent theme in national security circles ' thinking about Cuba that we ought to be able to overthrow Castro, or get rid of Castro as people tended loosely to say, in other ways than by invading his island, as we sort of did in the Bay of Pigs, or trying

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Secretary McNamara's Mission to Vietnam; OAS Action on Venezuelan Arms Cache, 3/5/1964, Volume 1, Tab 4," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)

should try to get adva.Ace amhority so that we do not have to go back to the OAS in the event of another action by Castro. In response to Mr . Bundy's question, Mr. Chayes. aa ~e State Depart· m.ent Legal Adviser, pointed out the legal di!ferenc:es

Folder, "August 10, 1968 - 12:25 p.m. President's briefing of Former Vice President Nixon and Gov. Agnew," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 3 (Item)

.? MEETING NOJES eeP¥&GHTED ~bliculioo Re~11ires H PerfftiHiun 1~ W :1:: of eeppight o &err. T1iOrikii Jalinaon CIA Director Helms: He is leader without question. The level of subsistence is not yet back to pre-Castro level. All the intelligent people left

Folder, "September 9, 1968 - 5:45 p.m. President's meeting with House leadership," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

by pro-Castro group. Last year was the first year in Latin American history that there was not a coup dLetat. The Speaker: Any agression from North Korea to South Korea. Secretary Rusk: No real step-up. There is still guerilla activity

Folder, "September 4, 1968 - 1 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

as suggested by Mr. Cherne; -- handling of second inaugural Soviet flight to the U. S. 4. Sugar Conference (Sect. Rusk) -- UNCTAD World Sugar Conference scheduled for Sept. 23. Likely sugar agreement that would emerge would double Castro 1 s income from

Folder, "National Security Council - 1961 [2 of 3]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4 (Item)

Folder, "Meetings With the President -- 6 January 1964 - 1 April 1964," McCone Memoranda, Box 1 (Item)

' i t ' 'i ( • !t ; ~ r \. '~ ';• ;r 11. In response to a question of the President, as to the involve ment of Castro - · 1.S{c) Mr. McCone recalled a report 3.4(b)(1) warned of a move in December 19 3 - January 19 The President requested

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the committee? I'm thinking particularly of Bobby Kennedy. M: Not that I know of, no. F: Did you get the feeling that this blunted Castro's subversion in Latin America? M: Unquestionably it weakened Castro's stature throughout Latin America. Whether

Folder, "[February-April 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

." The President added: "I am Iisting everything we can think of to make this hemisphere better." The President said failure of the United States to act in the Dominican Republic would have resulted in another Castro, and that the threat of communist aggression

Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

yes, everything was fine from then on. increasing what he wanted to free them. Now, we failed because Castro kept About a year later Donovan, who had previously been head of OSS during the war, got these prisoners out. When we started

Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

weeks in office were the worst. We had the Warren Commission, the men being held for ransom in Bolivia, the shootings in Panama, and Castro cutting off our water at Guantanamo. Not long after that came Cyprus and the Dominican Republic. We have had

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/28/1966 (Tuesday) (Item)

Meeting with Madam Shoumatoff about FDR portrait; Lady Bird, Nash Castro and Mary Lasker visit award-winning beautification sites; Beautification Committee meeting; Lady Bird mentions attendees and agenda; award ceremony in Jacqueline Kennedy Garden

Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the overwhelming majority of Americans and elites in America to agree that we would absolutely draw the line in Central America in the presence of any Soviet advisers, Soviet military bases. I think that could have been done at the time of Castro. I certainly

Folder, "Meetings With the President -- 4 January 1964 - 28 April 1965," McCone Memoranda, Box 1 (Item)

thereof with the USSR as to overflights of Cuba. All agreed that there had been a tentative agreement with Khrushev for on-site inspections,, which Castro refused to allow, but that there was no agreement,, positive or negative, with respect to overflights

Folder, "Meetings With the President -- 23 November 1963 - 27 December 1963," McCone Memoranda, Box 1 (Item)

&iayas1a problem. Z. The President then turned to Cuba. He asked how effective our policy was and what waa the future of Cuba. He aaked how e!fective the economic denial program was and how we planned to dispose of Castro. He said he did not wish any

Folder, "[September 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

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, 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

Folder, "National Security Council (II)," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4 (Item)

Folder, "The Bertrand Russell 'Trial'," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 191 (Item)

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, 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, 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

Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 25-30]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

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

Folder, "3 A (2) Gulf of Tonkin, 1964 - 68, 2 of 3," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 77 (Item)