PARTIES COMMENDABLY CLOSE RANKS IN AFTERMATH OF FIASCO IN CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780039-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: May 3, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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fiermath of Fiasco in Cuba
The joint determination by leaders of
both political parties to close ranks as
the result of the Cuban 'liberation move-
ment fiasco is a heartening thing, for
leideis of both parties, past and present,
were involved in this affair which termi-
nated so unfortunately for American
prestige.
It appears that the Democrats ran into
difficulty trying to defend the decisions
which wer0 shown to be so insufficient,
and the Republicans ran into similar dif-
ficulty in finding something tanglible to
criticise that would not involve the pre-
ceding administration.
CASTRO MEANWHILE is in greater
power than ever before, and this coun-
try has lost, in world opinion, much re-
spect of its own.
The Central Intelligence Agency ap-
pears to be getting most of the blame for
the failure to succeed of the patriots' re-
Volt against Castro and the Soviet direc-
tion of that unhappy country.
Naval inte.Uigence also is involved in
this- affair. The Pentagon checking sys-
, tern for reducing the chances of error
failed to operate. Both Allen Dulles of
the CIA and Admiral Arleigh Burke,
head of naval operations, are very much
on the defensive.
It is impossible as yet to estimate the
damage done by failing to go all the way
instead of part of the way. Our attempts
to avoid war while trying to oust corn-
munism from this hemisphere produced
an imbalance impossible of obtaining our
objective.
RECURRING TO MIND is the corn-
parable episode in which the Eisenhow-
er administration became so displeased i
? with the British and French attack on
; Egypt to save the Suez Canal as to cause
? these nations to abandon the effort.
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Had that operation been allowed to
; succeed, much of the West's troubles in
the Middle East, troubles which stem
from Nasser and the Soviet support of
him, would be resolved. The shoe we
put on the foot of Britain and France
now is tightly fitted to our own.
A_general overhaul of the intelligence
[service is very much in order.
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