Verbatim 1962 Transcript: Richard Helms Meets DRE Leaders on the CIA's Cuba Relationship

CIA Deputy Director Richard Helms met personally with DRE leaders Luis Fernandez Rocha and Jose Maria Lasa in his own office, along with an alias-using CIA officer, on 13 November 1962.

Rocha refused an unauthorized request, made separately by a Miami-based CIA contact, to infiltrate DRE members including himself and co-leader Manuel Salvat into Cuba on what he considered a vaguely defined, needlessly dangerous mission.