IF SO SHARP, WHY SO WRONG?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770022-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: April 27, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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If So Sharp, Wiry So Wrong?
The C ii is that its. intelligence as to what the Cuban
people ivou do in the evevf ,an invasion by 'MOM
fighters was absolutely, completely,' otall , 100 per .cent ri ht.
But it doesn't?emlaipdatdIesIzaiig, an a k .pt
?terrain .:Ilie argument may be that Castro, when the
. landing' occurred, clapped about 50,000 of the best ?internal
revolutionaries in jail: That, however, is only a fraction of the
total Cuban population. What about those- predictions that
the citizenry would arise en masse and throw Castro out? For
. that matter what about the .persistent rumors that Castro
? agents had infiltrated the invasion force?
- The whole Cuban fiasco has something 'fishy about it. The
leaders, it appears, were held en masse incommunicado in a
. house outside Miarni, presumably so they couldn't botch up ,
the skillful generalship of the CIA. Considering the results, it
might have been. better to let them go. ashore with the land- i
ing force. Just Ivhy the landing force was so tiny is another '
mystery. .
IAll in all, remernbering the mishandling of the U-2 case.
the failure of Our?intelligenc?to forecast the' crisis in South
1. Vietnam and Laos orti'lall'efanY. advance data on the Rus-
isian man-in-space flight, it is apparent that CIA badly needs a
shaking ' up. It may even need to be. partitioned. Unlike the
British, who separate their intelligence agencies from the mil-
itary people who execute the final plans,. Ise have them all
lumped in one establishment. This, being heavy with Military
brass, may very likely favor fast action over .the cool appraisal
that is the lot of the espionage worker. ?
When a central intelligence agency is doing a gbod job, ,,
even if not a totally good job, it is best for Congress to keep
bands off. When ..it does a series of bad jobs, the latest of
. which,has shaken .our standing in the, world, then fsober, de-
.tailed even .if secret inquiry is overdue.
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