BOMB DECISION TESTS KENNEDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100260016-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 1, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-000(fj(~ 0260016-2
DORIS FLEESON
CPYRGHT
bomb Decision Tests 1Cennedr
ea ers ip on Ban Question Held Vital '
van & such magnitude.
~ a mwtti k=44 plubna.
After Failure of His Actions on Cuba
Flit neutron bomb is in
c +r public doms3n at last.
Detailed descriptions of
this new type of nuolepr
apon are being published.
xinator?Dodd of Connecticut
gas constituted hiinse;f the
,tuukesman for those who be-
`aeve that the secrecy re-
yardintt it is not now, if it
-""er was, in the public in-
at est.
Che h to reason why the
std is off and cannot be put
nook on IA the falldre of the
aiucleer test ban neaotta-
tions at Geneva. The Ifus-
;sins not only refused to ne-
:;otiate ?sertously: their arro-
gant, even patronizing, attt-
tudes convinced the Ameri-
r.an participants A hat Russia
was already doing What
Western scientists 'had
warned was in the realm of
the possible.
Congressional obis r v ers
ned-J, to
nergy
some of
e for theismelvea
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ovinion. which is never eat-
ttie value of .ha reports he Idled with anything to which
nag Bettina. All of them- the flavor of kitchen cabi-
Democrats and Itepubiicantf net,attacbes.?'
alike.--tiave bTen far more Cuba wa.; a' dl*ter for
reserved In their public nom- hlai not just because it' -
rnente than Dodd. but they failed; had it. succeeded its
have -clearly .cm e drown cn value was dubious. The
Its side of a rn newel of
testing charge that clings Is that he
.
President Kennedy obi l- did not protect tl'ie. preai-
outay has to make th8 first 4enay from the consequences
4eciston. Only he has ?scoeta of failure. .CIA Director
to all the i:iforrmstion and Dulles and his deputy. Ruth-
knows inc beickground of all and Bissell, are expendable
the problems relating to this even thr>!expended, they leave rot
latest escape i from Pandoi.a'a yet been but t pa
box. presidency Ut. not. , .r
Almost as important as the ' Kennedy. did not improve
deci cn will be his manner on this siids-ti a. ctlo. loo
of arriving at it. For him- it own impulsive dtrectio of
Is a major problem of com- the Prisoners-for-tractors elt=
chatige. Now IMI glued
municatton. flrsv.~erith the
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