FINGER POINTING

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CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770013-0
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RIFPUB
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K
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1
Document Creation Date: 
December 23, 2016
Document Release Date: 
May 7, 2013
Sequence Number: 
13
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Publication Date: 
April 27, 1961
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OPEN SOURCE
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--17;? Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/07: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770013-0 API( 2 7 mi liOLINE, ILL. DI SPATCH E. 29,136 APF,4?. 27 ig61 , El 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 .? , 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