SHAKING-UP THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770066-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: April 25, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2g:1/!)53/06.ICIA-RDP67-00318R000100770066-2
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, Shaking-Up,
The CIA
Date:
14,4449,1454404,,,,ot co,rks popul
sea are ar support Which Castro
piiiiii,94% now popping to4he -do.Ys among the Cuban people.
surface of the' news,
' "'
responsible correspMe, s can no thought the Cuban people would
un-
en-
longer withhold froth,. tbe Ameri-4.
. mediately rise against their dictator ,
can public. Aid the torreSponden0?.??? at the first sign of act e Cub rebel military
tell the same unhappy story?a story wt .
?ivity. Than people have
OrThig.1.411,andin its
of fwaa
ea too many of Castro's public
the art executions to be so foolish as that.
ling of the They must know that the rebels
. have a darn good chance of winning
Squad.
before they . will tempt the firing
From a )psychological, as well
as military, point of view, it was
vitally important that this invasion
attempt
, u y-equipped modern would have taken the edge off Rus.
ceed. A success here
, army. It was ? ilag sia's spaceman feat and have di-
' Little L.244,,tkus A, p acii( ,eries rected world attention to the prob.',
rigaga04441,4ankees. The rebels did lem of enslaved peoples, a problem
have a chance. They were cut created by dictatorial communism. '
down as they hit the beaches with Rather than an abortive failure,
:such ease that, apparently, the bulk then, the CIA
1 of the invasion force was never goo
' committed to the suicidal battle. a
The Central Intell' cess seemed
Cuba ? sion.
comes clear that, the rebel
Invaders were inadeqbateOrained,
inadequately equipped $.ntl dis-
patched, as it turned out, in small
f squads in an attempt to topple an
I entrenched dictator and .defeat a
? well-train d
nce Agency,
, whidIrtIrEinii'en*Atlenitlith ,R co d, t ough '
. PO. 'Many reakins'irreSident '
OVer the training ,and equipping of ini7est. a ' '-- . , ? ?.A..;..., as been;
, rebel forces as well as' gatkering wi g oo often in the. past. Its mis- '
intelligence data from Cuba,viall take in Cuba has been devastating- :
1 beilAicalpialli,.44,4-4,441,-,n:et--11F7 ly embarrassing. Another mistake /
: inadequately prepared the ?niVaciers, - of such proportions may be, simplY, ,
it was comPlelxly wrong aboul the clevaStating period'.
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/07: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770066-2