FACTS ARE NEEDED ON CUBAN FAILURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780089-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 89
• Publication Date: April 29, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/17: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100780089-6
SPOKANE (Wash.)
APR 2 9 1961
SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
Circ.: rn. 89,257
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DathPR 2 9 1961
acts An Needed
on uban talitire
attGref any faiirtgh be found with any
government agency, before the blame for the
Cubai f teeti can be hung on anyone,
j .,t *bat happened must be de-
termined 'beyond question.
The invasion of the island by anti-Castro
Cubans failed apparently because of too .little,
strength and too little planning. Ever since
the fate of the attempt became easily pre-
dictable, the public has listened to a stream of
accesation.s bandied between Democratic big-
wigs trying to find a scapegoat and Republican
critics of the President who doubt the truth of
barges
S7Veze0A).;1*IPTI.
Interior Secretary Stewart I,. tidall really
began it with a "leaked" story that linked ex-
President Eisenhower with the faulty planning
and badly timed benching of the invasion.
This charge against the general who- directed
the destruction of Nazi Germany's "Fortress
Europa" was of a character that caused most
high government officials simply to refuse to
cOmment on it.
riThen APP-Mepe,,er,O$S49-`42144.49.e1;94.4114,00
weeeier4a4e4WM:11-494:41e the defeat byintelli-
gence. errors. -Thle' has been denied-
sp.okestnan wile. without trying '''fix the
liagron .anyboCil-,, flatly states:. that the ?atti-
ludo of the Cuban people and the extent Of
Military equipment at Castro's service were
correctly reported to the President before
-semeene apparently gave the. order to start
the adventure.
? Vebile Ilepublicans in the Senate prepare to
launch demands for an investigation, the
President has announced a committee headed
by former Arm/ Chief of Staff Maxwell Tay-
* will inquire into what happened, and why,
and our, plans for future action against the
'Castro regime.
:A complete and Impartial investigation is
.very much in order at the present time.,414.
*rineeredrimpending change in .theJea,,derehip
ofth,,,c7JA7eatich,would supplant Air
with the President's brother, Rotr,1
e-AveuiCindietAdies the
failure regardless of anything that might be
? announced to the contrary.
, Before that happens, and before the name-
Calling and accusations go any further, the
facts should be. established as to whether the
information given- the President was or was
not accurate, and the extent to which anybody
else in our .government had anything to do
",,with the -faulty arrangements.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/17: CIA-RDP67-0031RRnnninn7onnon