CUBAN INVASION SECRET HURT NIXON, KLIEN SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200100016-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 16
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON STAR MAR 2,5 1962
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'-Cuban Invasion Secret
Hurd Nixon, Klein Says
SAN DIEGO, .Calif., Mar. 24 kleincrsaid , the effect was that
TAP).-Richard M. Nixon's for- in a ucial period of the cam-
mer press secretary said today paign MriNixon was being
that Mr. Nixon's desire to keep clubbed wth his own weapon.
the secret of Cuban invasion And, because he had a strong
plans caused him to be sense of his responsibility to
"clubbed" by President Ken- protect security, he had no
nedy in the 1960 campaign. choice but to argue against Mr.
Herbert G. Klein, press pee- Kennedy-and thus against a
retary for Mr. Nixon during the policy he previously originated
1960 presidential campaign and himself."
-.now editor of the San Diego Mr. Klein's version of the in-
Union, said the formes' Vice cident appeared in Sunday
President had wanted to make editions of the Union.
t v nnon a camnaig i " He'caIled 'it "a story we'of
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a,caiaa3aG 1- - Uuk, U3 aO .3V_uI
nator of the Western Sta
campaign in 1960; and
Kennedy Was successively
usher at John Kennedy's w
ding, manager of his 1958 S
ate race and director of
Western phase of his camps
for the presidency.
Now all three are runn
for Congress, along with i
others of the President's is
e ding ushers, Senator Smath
of Flordia' and Representat
_ Torbert, 'I~ia.eT3nna?ld of M
former Vice President has dis- beer, briefed in 'depth, withal;
cussed briefly in his new book, park ular emphasis on Cuba I a,
'Six Crises,' and which was dis- and' Africa. Noting was with- 0"
puted this past week by the held, the two told reporters. he
President." And we knew that this was clo:
"For the Vice President and in ' accord with orders given
his staff," Mr. Klein said, "the Mr. Dulles by President Eisen- of
angriest moments of the cam- was
paign took place on October 20 h "Se : Nixon had cap- wee
on the eve of the fourth tele-
vision tured the initiative on the whit
debate (between Mr. Cuban issue with his Miami Kenr
Nixon and Mr. Kennedy). We statement urging a quarantine wasp
were in Ne wYork when Mr. against Castro. And, in the train
Kennedy, late in the day, made best cop-ordinated part of thel
a proposal which directly out- campaign, the administration
lined the exact program which. had followed with quick orders
was being 'carried out--and putting this into effect.
which we had, for security It seemed obvious to us that
reasons, kept secret. Mr. Kennedy was striking back
"Here. is what we thought after realizing he was losing
had happened: points at a crucial point of the
"First: On July 23 Allen campaign, was striking back
Dulles, then head of the Cen- with secret material he had
tral Intelligence Agency, and been given at the Dulles brief-
,
Cuban U e
issue but did not do so for the Nixon staff couldn't. tell
security reasons. during the 1960 campaign."
t "It is the story of the Cuban
When Mr. Kennedy camedtt
for Cuban intervention, Mr. issue," he said, "which the i in announcing that he had
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