FINGER POINTING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770013-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: April 27, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

--17;? Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/07: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770013-0
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IUnsurprisingly, the debate in
1 Cuba set off a round of finer-pont...
. ing in Washington. Interior ec-
? i
retary Stewart L. ,ILULamo,.n.g .oth-
ers tried to protect- th'eX:ennedy ficl:
ministration b'y poi out kat the
Eisenhbwer Adniinistration drafted'
the atli7a-sion an: he ke-
publicans naturally r a"c17a to this'
in anger. Almost everpody cast
T
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, spersion,sAtlarsataLadllience
...
zenciri,,,,,?,.. ? ,
plits:klent_ Kennedy
halt to T....,1?, 5114.a? rx.,?.?y a statement
unequivocallYAaking full responsibil-
ity for the evdits in Cuba, and in ef-
! feet ordering his aides to quit trying
Rowing
?
to rliis the buck.
? Al is It yes us with an obvious
ract: uban invasion was a
Inontiig .naf4. It was'ipoorly
timed wias_undelinanned and kad-
organpeffOt was apparently based
? op a grosOly faulty assessment of its
cliinces'of success.
No doubt the mistakes crin be
ttaced to a number of individual,.a
er of agencies, and in part back
M,he Eisenhower Administration:
.But as President!Kenn,edy frankly
? says, it was his responsibility. He has'
? his work cut out for him, to see that
any future action - toward Cuba
doesn't leate us red-faced.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/07: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770013-0