CUBA FIASCO HEIGHTENS PRESSURE FOR CIA REIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100260038-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: May 3, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Cuba. Fiasco Heightens
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Pressure for CIA Rein resumably have access to in-
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The Cuba fiasco has raised'"continuing studies" of the
the pressure for- a congres- CIA and all other intelligence
sional check and double-check
on operations of the Central
Intilligence Agency to an all-
I
time high.
Allen W. Dul t 'director of
the secret agency, spent al-
most two hours with .the Sen-
!ate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee yesterday. The very pres-
ence of Dulles evidenced the
formally introduced in the
Senate by Sen. Eugene J. Me-,
Senators. It is now. waiting
action in the Rules Cqm-
mittee.
The role of the CIA in the
aborted effort to topple, Pre-i
deep concern about his oper'-lknown by now, but the Com-
ations, not just, the Cuba of-, mittee itself had never.- had
fair but CIA activities aroundia briefing. Dulles presumably
the world..
Sen.. J. William, Fulbright
~(D-Ark.), chairman of the Sen-
ate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee and one'of the very few
who opposed the Cuban opera-
tion and tqok his opposition
directly to the President, told
reporters after the briefings
that the White House and the
Defense Department must
share in the "collective 're-
sponsibility" for the "blunder"
two weeks ago.
"The operation as a whole
was a tske," l?'ulbright
said Another member of the
the. expedition partly on "poor-
ly conceived" military action.
White Rouse, Disturbed
The, White It. was
:the?growing' +r sure in Con-
press kfor ?e,; special . joint cons-
described the procedures used
to train and equip the Cuban
refugees, an estimated.5*00
of them, in special a mps`in
Central America, how the .iii-
vasion plans were .worked
aspects of the ill-starred.
aC uun.
Give Candid Accounts
He gave a full and candid
account, according to tloss~
who heard him, and so- did hia
deputy, Richard Ril*ef, under
whose supervision ::the. Cuban
wnut, rn arrangin ftl 0
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damenta
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