WALTER SCOTT'S PERSONALITY PARADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100020067-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: March 14, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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Q. Vvhy on historians h arm ne .... : , ;e
fiasco on President Jack Kennedy? Wasn't it rr' M y
President Eisenhower's fanIt?----David Leeds, Cam,-
bndUe, Mass.
/;. it was President Fisenilower" who gave Allen
Dulles, then in charge; of. the Contra{ Intelligence
Agency, the go-ahead on the. agency's plan to trFlin
and equip Cuban exiles in the United States to-invade
?Cuba and overthrow Castro.
When President Kennedy too:. office, he foolishly
followed the advice of his military and permitted
what was obviously an ill-prepared invasion of Cuba.
This resulted, in the Pay of Pigs fiasco for which he
generously assumed the blame. Similarly, v,-hen Lyn-
don Johnson succeeded to the Presidency, he, too,
followed the advice of the military and continued the
fiasco Kennedy had begun in Vietnam. 'the reluc-
tance of incumbent Presidents .to alter the foreign
policy of their preclecessors is one of the great. weak-:
noses of the American Presidency.
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