ENCLOSURE "A"
 
OUTLINE PLAN FOR THE SEIZURE AND OCCUPATION OF CRETE
 
     Statement of Problem.
 
 5. To prepare an outline plan for the seizure and occupation 
of CRETE.                                 
 
 6. Assumptions.
     a. HUSKY is successfully completed by mid-August, 1943. 
     b. The bomber offensive against AXIS installations on the
    Continent is increasing in intensity and will seriously re-
    duce the AXIS war potential.
     c. GERMANY'S operations against RUSSIA in 1943 will not 
    be decisive, and RUSSIA will remain an important factor in
    the war.
     d. A cross-channel operation will not be feasible in 1943
    unless the military power of GERMANY has disintegrated ap-
    preciably.
     e. An invasion of the BRITISH ISLES or of TURKEY is not
    considered an AXIS capability. An AXIS invasion of the
    IBERIAN PENINSULA is improbable. SPAIN, PORTUGAL, and 
    TURKEY remain neutral.
     f. The Battle of the ATLANTIC remains serious in its
    shipping implications.
     g. UNITED NATIONS commitments in the PACIFIC and Asiatic 
    areas and to RUSSIA remain substantially as now planned.
 
    7. Mission of the operation.
          To seize and occupy the island of CRETE, in order to pro-
vide a base for further operations against the BALKANS, and to 
make the lines of communication in the eastern MEDITERRANEAN
more secure.
 
 
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