POLLS BACKING KENNEDY
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CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790054-3
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Publication Date:
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