DULLES SAYS NIXON MISTAKEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200100051-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: March 21, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

001fiulles Says Nixo
Approved For Release 1999/09/16 : CIA-RDP7
STATINTL
By the Associated Press
-vvasnington
,Allen W. Dulles, former Di-
rector of the ,Central Intelli-
gence Agency, 'says Richard M.
MAR 2.1 19 62
the Kennedy proposal ro=
vide such aid as wro .. and
Nixon w error'.when he
charged tgt President Ken-
nedy ha~een riefed. during
the 1960 r pa~iggnn on Cuban
invasion pcarations.
Mr.-Dulles-
r. Dulles said, however, he
believed the charge-contained
in Mr. Nixon's new book, "Six
Crises"-was the result of "an
honest misunderstanding."
Mir.. Nixon contended Presi-
dgrit ,Kennedy had been told
the, CIA was helping to train
Cuban rebels for an invasion
-and. had jeopardized the plan
in cam,ppa~ign oratory.
The White House denied this
Tuesday,. saying Mr. Kennedy
knew nothing of the invasion
preparations until after he was
elected and 'that Mr. Nixon's
"account is. apparently based
on a misunderstanding,"
White House,l'r Secretary
Pierre Salinger said . Dulles
had twice briefed Iv -4 _ ennedy
during the presidential race
but that.tbe briefings consisted
mailUly..of a -broad review of
the w'id..situatiop,.
In a nag nQranduau sda
M . DuhlgS-said:
"There bas been here, I be-
ilege; :.an~_.[ionest misunder-
due to the nab-urn -the mes-
sage Mr. Nixonhe re-.
ceived as . to t~ r.; fings.
The Cuban situ a of,
course, dealt with'
briefings one the world
had forced him into a dilemma
on siiba during the campaign.
T as; he said, th only
ti jng the race e got
his rival.
Nixon, .called for action to
"strengthen the non-Batista
democratic anti-Castro forces
in exile and in Cuba itself who
offer eventual hope of over-
throwing Castro."
Views Denicri
Mr. Nixon' 6 said that Mr.
Kennedy's call for stronger ac-
tion put him on the spot and
forced him to take a public
stand at variance with his ac-
tual views because "the opera-
tion had to be protected at all
costs.
"I must not suggest even by
violate our treaty commit-
ments."
And he did just that, accord-
ing to a transcript of the fourth
Kennedy-Nixon telgvisi de-
bate.,
Reasons Spelled (u~
Ile said if the United States
supported a Cuban invasion
"we would lose all of our
friends in Latin America, we
would probably be c'on eimned
in the United Nations, and we
would not accomplish our ob-
jective." And he added:
.. It would be an open in-:
vitation to Mr: Krushchev to
come in, to come into Latin
America and to engage us in
what would be a civil war, and
possibly worse than that."
Mr. Salinger, in denying that
President Kennedy knew of
plans for the landings at the
time of the campaign, read the
following statement:
"The.President does not be-
lieve that intelligence brief-
ings are a proper subject of
public debate, but in the light
of the account in M Nixon's
book it is necessary to o say that
the then Senator Kennedy was
not told before the election of
implication that the United
1960, of the training of troops
outside of Cuba or of any plans Ii
for `supporting an invasion, of;
Cuba.'
Briefings Touched On
Mr. Nixon's account is ap-;
patently based on a misunder- I
standing. Senator Kennedy re
ceived two briefings from Mr
Allen Dulles of the CIA, the
first on July 23, 1960, and die
second on Sept. 19, 1960.
"The two briefings covered''!,
an over-all review of the world
situation g which Cuba
was rheii Qned, but Senator:
Kennedy as first informed of
the operation to which Mr.
Nixon refers in a briefing by
Allen Dulles and Richard Bis
sell of the CIA given in Palml
Springs, Fla., . on Nov. 18,
1960."
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