KENNEDY'S CURIOUS DECISIONS CITED IN CUBA INVASION STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64B00346R000200170012-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: October 1, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEWS
EVENING 284,276
Kennedy's urious Decisions
Cited in Cu an Invasion Story wrong we with.the.U. ponaoed Invasion of daq to the say of Pllf L This
HATvremt s only a week beff ore the
^.U. 1. >pidly y betxlanini an Ott secret a,utarkatlen,
lt1 a new contribution to the hiito BurCharles I 'Th,t the dropping of leaf-
i3.:VV1MJUrphy of Fortuna magashi4e w in~oo ? 1 the broadcasting of
K *ttittlsE'ddwn 1b landing ex- to the Cuban people
'tilHitl* t 'Ff"Mone attwdy dootnd it . , _ be canceled.
Rodltlpn with eonflWinj dtaeiJtt"al., at
Mr. M , y't t-UY hY play x n iv T THE CUBAN exlids
Mae e~aerttt earmar s. Eottutlr ?+;~ tr!tr'w "i' Ty NOT to strike with their'
Nears per tion at leap, B4f+. on the morning of the
coperhtlon by b, by Malt military .i landing. This decision, the eve-
sour
set forth pttt
??ure?s?
nini before the assault, resulted
M
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n Mr.'Kenedy ng is the role of ? from, the raid of April 1S. A
man seemingly try)nt to invade t, fytcocted report had been
lend not to invade at the same ' ;Fk go. out that Castro's own
fie: ti6 detecting airmen had done the
The result, as her.` Murphy . `f bombing. Adlal Stevenson, un-
shows, was the poiltkoj cefeat ,reed of what was going on,
of the liberation ' project. fyeuched fo1 this in the
cannot properly bi celled :- t Nations.
millarfr failure
* .fl planes from the U. g.
'pe
n wo s
h
'tense for the men who died on l Boxer world NOT pro-?
.the began was nave !M' rr k`; t. ' te~ the landin ships It they
Itary plan was never Corti. to a tionel wa
? ? ? ?tKS. The Praildeat.w4a await-
THE INVASION was, of mad at 4 o'a:lock'Is,I morns
*g, of D-day to decide this.'
came, an Operation of the Can
tral Intelligence Agency. The ?= '' 11 That the exiles' B-21s could
Department of Defense assisted attack Castro's airfields. This,
but had no direct responsibility. at noon on April 17, followed
The manager of the project word that the lending had
was Richard M. Bissell, a dep. RICHA D M BISSELL tare4 ill for lack of air sup.
4t praJ Adore A small attacking force
uty of Allen W. e Dulles, CIA's He was"I ihr Kt? the morning of the 11th
director. An economist, Mr, the fields logged In.
Bissell is described by Mr. tier was tq ides near the scene "at from the
Boxer
Murphy as "s highly practical to lend help it needed. Jets
M reef ships e B xer
executive," When gi No the project a hated infantrymasupply"
n on the
tlt
d. This w"'te'be for.
Exilee . e hem be Fidel- uiteddi `Teen light in, eons tie ach
were being relrulted In President warned y one hour, btar'ting at '
''CGu adUnited States and trained la direct charge. that ve . gg AM on April 1s. while the
Guatemala, in the wromet tt could ~~vveeqe~y r9yed tins. i n m$lntng 8 Its hit aS hard as
1110., By idL a small air con- could htlei ibnVaa up to W" could. f ? ,
tiegrot we. developed.' witt- of April N.
r r obeelete'B?=4e and roots too* The decisiqnr to be 11Ir. THiS i~O>