TAKING THE BLAME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770012-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2013
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: April 27, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SAN ATITC:!TO, TEXAS
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Arcking the
PRESIDENT KENNEDY
hast*own a courageous
unicifisjpanding of the obli-
gations oe,fils .office iii accept-
ing full responsibilitp-for the
_ _
Cuban debacle.
His position is si ) r to the
responSibi14 that i ?tresident
Eisenhower' accept*, for the
U-2 affair.
In both cases tikre. may
read into it, and to that extent
it was unfortunate.
The fact of the matter is
',Iltat while the Eisenhower ad-
#inistration may have swung
'pound to a policy of helping
anti-Castro forces, this was not
a policy binding on the Kennecl,
administration.
Mr. Kennedy did not have to
follow it. He chose to follow it,
and he is quite right in accept-
have ben miscalcuMons and `ing the responsibility.
errors of judgment 'Id levels A study such as is now go-
lower than the presidetry. Yet (t:1 ingn under direCtiOn of Gen.
inevitably the final reiponsibil- ,Ma,xwell D. Taiiiilkiwilinto the gov-
ity had to rest at the top, as Mr. OP-Int*t'S "Para-militarY" ? on-
Eisenhower and Mr, 'Kennedy ,.,.,.e!ati?40 and the cy centralW intelli may beful
recognized and asserted.
"ning wherr?w?e' mad
It is to be profoundly hoped' :: istalies and how not to make
' the tragedy of the Cuban inva-. theOPAgain. .
sion will not lead to parltban; , . .
is is far different
knifework in Washingto tn.0:_ ?
.; fr4.m charging around looking
? In this connection we ilar#e fScApegoats and whipping
read the full statement on aW? .:
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panel by Secretary of the III., .
terior Udall, which some Re-
Our main purpose, as Wil-
liam Randolph Hearst jr. re-
marked in. last Sunday's "Edi-
tor's Report," should be to learn
our lessons And go on f r om
there. Castro's Commuiiist
Cuba is far too grave a threat
to permit petty partisan bick-
ering.
publicans think was an attempt
to bl am e the Eisenhower ad-
ministration for the Cuban
failure.
It does not seem to us that
this was Mr. Udall's intent. But
v
},Ithat interpretation could be
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