What did the August 1962 Special Group notes say about assassinations, and who attended?

Research question: What do the Special Group Augmented minutes from August 10, 1962 record about the assassination discussion, and which participants are named in them?

The minutes contain no reference to assassination ⁴. Thomas Parrott, who wrote them, testified that he did not recall an assassination discussion at the meeting, but said the minutes' silence does not necessarily mean the matter never came up ⁵. He also said the minutes were not meant to be a verbatim transcript and were instead meant to interpret and record decisions as a usable action document ⁶. Separately, the records show that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara raised eliminating Cuban leaders at the August 10, 1962 meeting, which led to a Project Mongoose action memorandum prepared by Landsdale ²³. The meeting was held in Secretary of State Dean Rusk's conference room ¹. The facts name Parrott as the minutes' writer and McNamara as raising the topic, but they do not provide a full list of attendees, and the newest fact is dated August 10, 1962, about 64 years before October 2026 ¹⁴.

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