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When Adolf Berle visited Colombia in February 1961, lining up hemispheric support for the planned [[Bay of Pigs invasion]], Lleras Camargo had a ready shopping list: he wanted small arms and helicopter gunships to deal with the guerrilla-held enclaves, which the Eisenhower administration's CIA-Pentagon Survey Team had already advised him to suppress. Berle recorded that Lleras Camargo wanted U.S. help transforming his army, trained for conventional Normandy-style invasions, into a force capable of counterinsurgency against "bandits in the high hills."[^6] This conversation is documented in FRUS 1961-63, Volume XII (Cuba), Document 48 (February 25, 1961).
Colombia's foreign minister [[Julio Cesar Turbay]] delivered a memorandum on May 6, 1961, outlining Colombia's position on the Cuban situation following the Bay of Pigs failure. Ambassador Wells reported to the State Department (Telegram 518 from Embassy Bogotá, May 6, 1961) that President Lleras Camargo "fully approved" the memorandum's contents and had been consulted by phone while Wells was present. The memorandum proposed convening the [[Inter-American Economic and Social Council]] to define threats to hemispheric security including "Soviet bases, nuclear weapons, arms shipments, subversion" and to establish procedures for collective defense.[^7]
Colombia's foreign minister [[Julio Cesar Turbay]] delivered a memorandum on May 6, 1961, outlining Colombia's position on the Cuban situation following the Bay of Pigs failure. Ambassador Wells reported to the State Department ([[Telegram]] 518 from Embassy Bogotá, May 6, 1961) that President Lleras Camargo "fully approved" the memorandum's contents and had been consulted by phone while Wells was present. The memorandum proposed convening the [[Inter-American Economic and Social Council]] to define threats to hemispheric security including "Soviet bases, nuclear weapons, arms shipments, subversion" and to establish procedures for collective defense.[^7]
On September 27, 1961, Colombia submitted an urgent request for additional internal security aid. On November 1, 1961, President Kennedy signed a formal determination authorizing internal security aid to Colombia, documented in FRUS 1961-63, Volume XII, Document 57.[^8]