DEBATE ABOUT CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790098-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 98
• Publication Date: May 6, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790098-5
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DEBATE ABOUT CUBA.
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Now and for some time to come i
there will be extensive debate about the'
decisions involved in the berti'te.Guban
rgbellign- and about whose advice led to
the :fiasco. The situation rivals but does
no ' e ual the . furore over the 13-2 spy
planeh`ident that,plagued the Eisenhow-
er 4admmistration in its closing, period.
..."Apparently ently the Cuban failure was 1
due toxainumber of things, and it will be
hardj.to':.assign blame...1~1e. , eek. ,Maga
zing,; for.. example, has reported that the
decision to encourage the Cuban rebels
was made in' a meeting which included
some of the top people in our govern-
ment - CiA.head Allen Dulles among,
them, also the chairman of the joint,
chiefs of staff, Gen. Lemnitzer. The mag- i
azine says there' was no dissent. But the
decision was based on either faulty in-,
formation or faulty judgment, or both.
It will serve little good to have a pub-
lic hue and cry about what went wrong..
It will be good, however, for President
Kennedy to have the closest kind of scru-
tiny given to every operation which pro-
duced the wrong judgment. W.e... cannot .
afford many more blunders of the U-2
and, Cuban variety.
Fortunately for President Kennedy',
this trouble has developed early in- his'
administration. He has time to get things
on a better basis before his term is over. J
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