INEPT INTELLIGENCE ON CUBA INVASION CALLS FOR CORRECTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770060-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: April 26, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Inept Intelligence on Cuba-
Invasion Calls for Correction
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This is no time for noisy dissensibn
over our government's course of action
in dealing with national and heinisph,
security in Cuba: Sut46 .uggest thatifl
foreign policy decision is need's
guaranteed success does not excus
faults or '
There is a preponderance of evide,
to support throliclimi that our gov.
ernment's support of last week's il
_as based, on
grq?slyjakat,y- intelligence. It :follows that
some examination of intelligence gather-
ing and evaluation processes is called for.
This incident of serious miscalculation
on the basis faulty intelligence is but the
last of a lg,ag, bigay jitosTisc4c111a-
tions back.U.gearl,14rhor and
Recriminations will not help the situa-
tion, but correction of such fundamental
fault?a, may exist in bur intelligence
service, headed by CIA is of most vital
importance to nationariecurity.
The Cuban invasion was based on the,
agumption of a popular internal uprising!
as soon, as the landing materialized. That
explosion did not even get started. There
-gain, the strength of Castro's forces, and
The*,ability te,-,*deal Mth internal revolt,
adly underestifirattO.
should not be ovetiooked, however,
attempt, along with
ivha Ervti- part ourgovernment played, has
only:a fringe relation t? the question of
direct toilitary action.
As the President pointed out in his,
press conference Friday, the threat of the
rising power and ideology of Cuba is
more of a threat to the rest of Latin
America than it is to the Unit tes.
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