THE PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780048-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: May 2, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/17: CIA:IDP67-00318R000100780048-1
DANVILLE, VA.
BEE
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he People Would Like To Kno
Official Washington is a 'twitter waiting to find out,
who really is responsible for the Cuban fiasco. But the
truth will not out for two or three weeks. There is
a strong disposition, from the President down, to say
nothing until the committee named by Kennedy and
headed by General Maxwell Taylor, former chief of
staff of the Army, has4hade an investigation.
peculation and there is some
II ? I ?Aat,,,the
IS .why the rebel movement
a everitt'., plenty of cloak-and-dagger ac-
tivity is going on..
?
What seems to leen gEdgred is three?weAs
CO
e UnitiMales can preserve
" ace" as muc ? as ,!k:f".le in the, badly bungled affair
which has once rrior4i . ded the Russians to fury with
a destructive influehb n peaceful co-existence.
ThwhifilislAslieW4s,' ;more hoptile ly,as, towards,
England and France oyer Anthony Edens attempted
coup ?and somve4,of the leading journals of the
worldee hat par:.? of the confidence which it
has reposed in the new American dynamic leader has
been sacrificed. Otherrsay we have simply made our-
selves ridiculous. A fek,y::apolaud Kennedy for courage.
Mr. Kennedy has one firm foothold. He ean argue}
that under the Monroe Doctrine, America had the duty4
to prevent Soviet interference on this side of the At-
lantic?since Cuba can be considered part of the
Americas, being only relatively few Miles off the Florida
coast. Unfortunately,. there is a large opinion that we
abrogated the Monroe Doctrine in 1917,, and that most
countries, especially Russia, have considered that it has,
long since been obsolete, governing themselves accord-1
,ingly.
But there will be no abatement ,of interest in know-t
ing wtge the orcls, to proceed towards the ousting
of Cas-ro;77-wtethefit was the JoineChiefs of Staff, the;
secr-dtari7 Of state or the President himself.
Never in the long history of American politics was
there such a glaring instance of "the wrong dope"
i
launching a dangerous enterprise.
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