It became apparent that confidence was also faltering in Lansdale. By the fall of 1962, Parrott recalled, “all the members of the [Special] Group were quite disaffected with both Lansdale and with Harvey.”87 In a contemporaneous memorandum, another CIA officer wrote, “Practically everyone at the operating level agrees that Lansdale has lost his value. Bundy and Taylor are not impressed with him.”88 It was hardly Lansdale and Harvey’s fault that they had not been able to achieve the impossible results demanded of them, but they were set to become the fall guys.
