"UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE"

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770029-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: April 27, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/07: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770029-3
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WASHINGTON, PA.
OBSERVER
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I"Unconventional Warfare"
4.. The debacle of Cuba shows that we. are far
from being masters of unconventional warfare,
or at least that part of it in which a civilized
nation can participate?training exiles to re-
capture their homeland from native tyrants and
inspiring and utilizing patriotic underground fortes '
to rise and join the assault.
That is one reason why Gen. Maxwell D. Tay-
lor, who retired as Army Chief of Staff in 1959
in frustration because his limited warfare views
were not accepted, has been recalled to active
duty by President Kennedy. He will review United
States intelligence and paramilitary and guerrilla
warfare capabilities in the wake- of the setback
of the handful Of 'patriots who failed to establish'
a beachhead in Culii last week.
Since the Genet:al:has been asked to report in
two months, presuinably there will be no serious
effort to 'recoup the disaster immediately.
The President forecast the Taylor assignment in
his address to the,lAmerican Society of News-
paper Editors last t'veikwheli he ,said: "We in-
tend to profit from this lesson. We intend to re-
examine and reorient our forces of all kinds,
our tactics and other institutions here in this
community. We intend to intenify our efforts for
a struggle in many ways more difficult than ,
war, where disappointments will often accom-
pany us. For I am convinced that we in this
country and in the free world possess the neces-
sary resources and the .skill and the added
.strengththcnesk?t,Velief; 4.324e4'eed.:2,
'"ez.VA
?Cre loi?Aho arkied futilely that e doc-
trine Of n.lasye retaliation with nuclear weapons
will not deter' Wars and advocated the, value of
limited , will now examine all the agencies
of the Go e'that can be'utilized in para-
mi]i warfare. They include es-
., .
p, Yar e Defense, State and Justice Depart-
ments, as well as the Central Intelli
The most significant thing about his assignment is
that'll, means we will sharpen the tools of uncon-
ventional,. ,Vlare,, which communism has
made so riludl a`Y.,; in order to try to stop
its advanc.441% States will fight fire
Lrith fire. ,,
This editorial also appeared in the
following other newspapers:
HAZELTON STANDARD SENTINEL,
PA. ? APR. 27, 1961
JAMESTOWN POST JOURNAL,
GAINESVILLE SUN, FLA.
N.Y.? MAY
? APR
11,11961
27, 1961
GRAND FORKS HERALD, N.D.
? MAY
5,
1961
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/07: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770029-3