LBJ IS MAKING A LIST OF LIKELY SCAPEGOATS IN DOMINICAN IMPASSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100090043-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: May 22, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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LB) Is Faking a List
Of Likely Scapegoats
In Dominican Impass
sidered more in-
strumental than
an
other ad-
y
iser in the
Prc'sident's de-
cision to act: at
once. On hemi-
lspheric, affairs
his views have
consistently car-
Tied g reat
wei2htwith LB.I:
The inside ad-
Special to Buffalo Evening News
now looking for scapegoats to blame for the , Dominica
Republic mess. The fact that such a hunt is' on is su -
rafter Mr. Mann' The latter is,
military intervention operation has been badly mi
handled in its follow-through phases: ,considercd responsible for Mr.
oBennett's being ',in.' Santo Do
The effort to pin the blame Bissell Jr., and the then chaff -' mingo in the first place. -
elsewhere than on President I man of the Joint Chiefs of Sta There is an almost hysterical.
Johnson has, started with a rush Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer. But M ..effort by those iii the possible;
in . the last 24 hours. The first Kennedy at that time accept line of Presidential fire to pass
proposed candidates for the the whole, blame himself. > the buck to .other agencies and.
d i
W
H
h
h
Commentary
On the.News
ouse
ate the
vte
as s
o 1 individuals.
no similar inclination. Bundy Is Blamed
Digs Aimed at CIA
For example, certain high' in-
Instead, Ambassador Be telligence officials have the knife
nett is being blamed on varioi s out for McGeorge Bundy,' Whitee
White )-louse doghouse have vague counts: that he failed House natianah
ley Bennett Jr.; the new Cl&+
chief, Admiral William'
born Jr., and Undersecretary of
State Thomas , C. Mann.
Long List Possible
any of these three, are actually:'
culpable. There, has to be a
scapegoat list, even if, as at
present, it is passed.along sur-
reptitiously by
officials whose''.
tips usually re-,
flect the White
House line.
Because the
errors' in judg I
ment or misin-,
terpretation of
chaos, involve mr. Sennett ichief John McCone. On almost every aspect of4hetrying desperateiy to find 'a wa
;diplomatic, military and intelli ' Rut, the digs at Admiral R - present messed-up situation, out. What basically went wrong,
genre agencies, the list of scopeborn are basically aimed at t false notes have ,'been struck There is no argument abo
goats could he pretty long. ni;rili pence operation he hea here, What leaks out of the State
~, }
Certainly it could be more ex ;The State Department and PE I- Department, Pentagon or, CIA that. 'Mr. Johnson was Jed t
believe that once we put, ou
tensive than the roll of wi t.n on have consistent) c t'privately has no relation to the
ont
g Y ' troops ashore the whole mes +
guessers and blundering opera aspersions on the value of C statements issued' publicly by
"evaluations." the Administration even at the could days w be. 'with a cleared tempora up ry in -a coaliti fe
do
f P Jahn F. Kennedy's Bay. White House level.
of Pigs fiasco in 1961. ! I government o erdtin to stabs
Mann's Views Respected ? p h
Comparatively .innocent high! 1 Short Stay Envisaged ize the country. 'Instead, this ' - , - ~ officials had to take the rap un Undersecretary of State Ma a' The White House, again insistedkthe fourth week of -ur mtcrve
as the then CIA head Allen )mainly because he has been c werein~trtctly a neutral sture43
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public, that e
overe mp h
the President o
rush the
.,~ u~...cao,u??r , a
is accused of making too em ;form auacoaluuo ition. government?ers and marines themselves, i
iional an appeal to the Whi e headed by' Antonio Guzman, a dicates our military is bean
House about the Communi t chummy with the junta, whit
close friend of exIied' President,
threat. This charge, from a - Juan Bosch. the Bi.indy mission has, bee
n)inisfration sources that shou d 'chummy with the. rebels
1-1- __ Mr. Guzman's left-wing status i},._
t
tin d
1s of +s,. wee
on
S
a
sworn in on April 28 when M .
Johnson ordered the marines 1.
ministration in- Mr. Minn
trigue in this scapegoat hunt has'
odd aspects. Some of those try
suspect, but it is held in intelli-
gence circles here that the
Bundy. mission:, refused to accept
cision to send ati
special mission
on a desperation
basis to Santo
Domingo last;
Saturday. I iri "the Dominican`.Ite}iublfc ""i11
The the fi shtwas
to end the the evidence from,the scene; in
.
official candor and all the bac l
biting going on here suggest onltl
one , thing. The President ha