POLLS BACKING KENNEDY

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CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790054-3
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May 29, 2013
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May 9, 1961
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790054-3 MAY 9 1961 ? AUSTIN, TEXAS ? STATESMAN E. 26,388 MAY 9 , 1969 '041s Backing Kennedly While various writers, prognosticators, speakers and what not have been direly * preciibtai ' fi'e: consedieodes of the Cu- ban fiast nthe pOputdcity of President , Kehnedy, 'id have awaited proof of this ..- .)- in" reactionsiof the country, various polls, including the found found that the pub'. as' r?1d behind his. tscZ,111rvtarious ;i.evis, is astonish- ing development. Critics have been say- ing that Kennedy over-estimated the so- called invasion force of the Cuban pa- triots who tried to make a landing, over- 1 estimated the quality of the plan of cam- ? paign,..and under-estimated the military , . strength of Fidel Castro in nipping the revolt in the bud. . i i also ha ' ence Service .also has e a g? a ic mg-MS ite crit- ics' for having dabbled into purely mili- tary matter-eand coming up with either 1,-? no answ4or the wrong answers. The 'Tic of this unfortionate crusade by the patriots which this country sup- ported has been to put the nation square- ly behind the President at a time of trouble. The public has disassociated Kennedy , from his advisers. The Pr tuting over with' i ? It is most Kenne come fr.' ent fOr. his part is reconsti- krian? supervisory -agency entrel Intelligence Agency, herail James R. Killian Jr. rathtrirtrar 4rprikeleM that fitical shafts directed at e Cuban affair did not opposition party, but from the liberal wing. The- public;. tbo, has noted that our own intelligence services do not stand ' alone in their failure to apprehend the gravity of the Cuban development. The French Republic, with one of the great intelligence systems' of the world, also found that its intelligence -failed to warn when it should have warned of the plot of the four generals to overthrow Presi- dent De Gaulle. The President has repeatedly been called upon by his writing critics to re- analyze his ,position in Cuba and Laos. It might be well for some of these critics' Lto reanalyze their own criticism. This editorial also appeared in the following other newspaper :. WACO TIMES HERALD. TEXAS ? MAY 10, 1961 Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790054-3