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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200020045-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: October 8, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

NYC Y1 LIGL/fVnV ,/v\Maa./ OCT STANDARD-TIMES 1962
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Oct. 5, there appeared the following two
ji`aragihphs of a news story:
"Senator Jacob K. Javits (R.-N. Y.) is
being given s creT'"in1orma ion by the
Central Intelligence Agency about :ef-
forts to free more than 1,000 Cubans
captured in the abortive invasion at-
tempt of 1961.
"Negotiations with Cuba aimed at free-
ing the prisoners are being conducted by
t{mPa R_ nQQyan,=.the Brooklyn Demo-
crat who is opposing Mr. Javits for the
Senate. He left for Havana on Tuesday
to complete the arrangements."
Now it so happens that Javits main-
tains the Cuban negotiations are not a
campaign issue. The Javits campaign
staff, however, is saying that Donovan is
devoting his entire political effort to the
Cuban prisoner release in the belief that
this accomplishment could win him more
public support than a series of orthodox
attacks on his opponent.
of the
Thep ~
1.. 5c_
,
,
hrieS provided Mr. Javits arelee
totonsiderably varying interpretations,
including these:
The Kennedy Administration is anx-
ious to keep the Cuban situation out of
politics, so it is making information
available to members of both parties.
The Administration wants Donovan to
realize the maximum political advantags>-
from the Cuban effort and is seeking to
"tie eiator Javits' hands" by keeping
hint t1'tf'or ned on a secret basis.
J .MncCone director of the CIA,
a. At C eesx'that Senator Javits
'
shoul
be kept informed as a matter of
fairness.
Secretary of State Rusk, with whom
Javits discussed Cuba ecently, asked
1VIcCone q,,Trovide the briefirfp-a? a
courtesy to the senior senator from
Rusk's home State.
ese are"all Washington theories.
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derive any + omfort from the knowledge
that a coupler of senatorial campaigners
have their feet, fingers or ears in the
nation's hottest foreign-policy area of the
moment.
One may, be pardoned, perhaps, for
suggesting that there lingers about this
episode an unbecoming aura of mixed
values. The Cuban prisoners are the sym-
bol of major tragedy, of the bitterest
kind of American error at high level. The
prisoner situation is inextricably inter-
woven with the tense and explosive prob-
lem of Communist threat in the Western
Hemisphere.
How a couple of New York hustlers
scrapping for a job in Washington look
upon this problem. or what they are
claing in the :niddlP of it anywa'.. e.
mains rnora c r, v,rt-pr#in , t>ban clear.
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