KENNEDY ROLE AFTER RAID IS CRITICIZED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100010005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 10, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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Lyman D. I{irhpatrick Jr.
who was inspector general o
A4 during the Bay o
the_ C
Pigs inva,.06n ? has criticize
the late President John F,
Kennedy for the tray he han
died the aftermath of the in
vasion.
"If the President makes the
policy, got r -:l of Castro. this
is about the last he should
hear of it," Mr. liirkpatric
said. "If something got.
wvrong, he can fire and dis
avow. which is what a l'res
ident should do, not aci:nowl
edge and accept blame. C)
Course, I am being critical o
the President., but I think this
this is essential in this are
(covert operations)."
According to Mr. Kirkpat
rick, Allen Dulles, director o
the CIA at the time, told the
President "If you wish, I wit
go." The President refused.
Mr. Kirkpatrick said, "H
(Mr. Dulles) was a very wis
and able man, and he recog
nized t h at when an in
telligenec failure takes place
the first etpendable person i
he director of Ih~? operation,"
In the, forward to his b ok
"A 'rhnusan(i tf)a3s: John I'
Kennedy in the \ hite House,'
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr,
writes:
"Then after the hay of Pitt,
he (the President) Said,
110,')e YOU kepi a full accoun
of that.' I said I had under
stood he did not want us t
keep 1 :11 accounts of any
thins:. lie said, No, go ahead
You can bc, damn sure tiia
the CIA has its record and the
Joint C111ets of Stilfi theirs
We'd better make sure w
lure as lecord over 1n lore. S
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