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(a) Agency Officials Failed On
Several Occasions to Reveal
The Plots To Their Superiors
Or To Do So With Sufficient
Detail and Clarity .......... 27

Castro ...................... 27
Trujillo .................... 34
Schneider ................... 36

(b) On Occasion, Administration Officials
Gave Vague Instructions to Sub-
ordinates and Failed to Make Sufficiently
Clear That Assassination Should Be
Excluded From Consideration ....... 37

Schneider ................... 38
Lumumba ..................... 38
Castro ...................... 39

6. Practices Current at the Time in Which
the Assassination Plots Occurred Were
Revealed by the Record to Create the
Risk of Confusion, Rashness, and
Irresponsibility in the Very Areas Where
Clarity and Sober Judgment Was Most
Necessary ......................... 46

(a) The Danger Inherent in Overextending
the Doctrine of Plausible Denial .... 47

(b) The Dangers of Using "Circumlocution"
and "Euphemism" .................... 48

(c) The Danger of Generalized Instructions .. 49

(d) The Danger of "Floating Authorization" .. 50

(e) The Problems Connected With Creating
New Covert Capabilities ............ 50

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