POLICY OPTIONS FOR CENTRAL AMERICA AND CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00049R000601660013-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Sequence Number: 13
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 200/ORECT : CIA-RDP84 00049R000601660013-4
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM . Dwane R. Clarridge
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SUBJECT : Policy Options for Central America and Cuba
1. The undersigned with Constantine Menges attended an interagency meeting
at State on 24 October to review State and DOD drafts. The result (Staff Draft __C__`_
10- 81 Revised) is included in your reading material. Clarridge andiwx
believe that DOD is overstating the quantity of US forces needed to do thfi?5Xl
job, particularly with regard to Option II.
2. Since the last NSPG meeting, we have been unable to confirm that a
large number of Cuban elite troops are in Nicaragua. Our best estimate is that
probably no more than 250 of these troops are currently there. 125X1
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4. Enclosed is a memorandum on Nicaragua's support for insurgents. You may
want to brief the NSPG on this. We are concerned that the Nicaraguans and Cubans '
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are moving faster than we are.
5. On Monday morning Secretaries Haig and Weinberger and their deputies,
together with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are meeting for breakfast to discuss the
Central America-Cuba paper. Because Policy II of the paper involves substantial
CIA assets you may wish to attend.
6. Dewey Clarridge read this memorandum in draft.
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