Arthur Schlesinger's Memo Unredacted

[Joe Knapp]

Schlesinger writes:

The Dulles-Correa-Jackson report stated in 1948, "The CIA should not use State Department cover as a simple answer to all its problems but should proceed to develop its own outside cover and eventually in this way and through increased efficiency of its overseas personnel, find a way to temper its demands upon the State Department."

The Dulles-Correa-Jackson report evidently has not been released in full, as the "sanitized" version (dated June 1976) in the "CIA Reading Room" https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86B00269R000500040001-1.pdf does not contain that text.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Historians of the CIA would consider this below too simplistic, it covers a lot of ground in a short paragraph, but is it all or even mostly wrong? (no, JFK did not give *all* of the clandestine operations to RFK). It's Tim Weiner from "Legacy of Ashes." Not on Cuba. Sure, the book is flawed; it's not, as advertised, a history of the CIA: it's mostly a history of the covert operations side. But the Kennedys were enamored with the "James Bond" covert stuff (JFK actually asked Fleming what he would do with Castro) and Weiner's history of it vis-a-visa Cuba seems on solid ground to me.

On McCone: from what I've read he wasn't interested much in the covert operations side, e.g., I don't think there's any evidence of his objecting to that Operation Mongoose craziness except for the Castro assassination plots. He let RFK run it all re Cuba.