THE CUBAN FIASCO, ONE YEAR LATER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100250101-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 101
• Publication Date: April 23, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

APP 2 tl ~Olia? satligle.thrual sktitl8y q a *t-
lags. r.si f~ made it per- -Seen Ia this light. what on tba
kere would be. surtkip.. appears to be art ipcred?.
Iectly, clear tha tl il u, by U,. S.
iteesrvv ibis military blunder of which ew
able becomes a perfectly crcdfible t
mistake in poiit1 al judgement,
i.e., an error in assessing the ,i
character and determination of~
fits Pr nt ?tp stand fast on the
origins vision to Which All
."Thus ,by,-the first weeks of tpril Jk.
1%I President Kennedy and the Ng
State Department attempted to
ratty out as a covert operation
an undertaking which could rot
possibly have achieved its pollti-
eai objet'tiye (the overthrow of
the Cuban people' even had the
landing attempt succeeded On
the other hand, in spite of a na-
ttDll l policy decisign to the con.
C.I.A. and the military ad `
act't;be` imiltical object'
n jlrect'istfn
nearby." Any air strikes (such
as the one on D-Day--minus-two,
which actually destroyed half of
Castro's T-33 jet training. atf(RS'.
would have to be under ' llutntc,"
i.e., plapca wit, Matt air
`fords tarkllp.
TILE COVER story was tbftl
the, two. planes which landed in
p'lof'ida'after tl airstreke were
flgwq by Cubed defectors, the
idea being, that the refugees could
aak, Uo I~{ we bntt:b the
airflelds.b e don't have any
planes
This ver 4tgf`y was speedily
u poaec but aftetf;U.
baseadot `to th4 U.N., Adiai 3te?
venson, had.sworn before the As-
sembly that the planes wet
it, (hat, In case . of
nitized - Approved For Release`:
logic" of,the *ituatiotl would force :~
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