OUST DULLES, CIA EX-AIDE URGES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 23, 1961
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BY3 RON MARTIN
e Cuban invasion failed
partly`because the Central, In-
telligence Agency today is
making policy instead of im-
plementing it, a former high-
ranking CIA aide charged
Saturday.
There were other factors" in-
volved, said retired ame:
jgW
operations,
but #Feinvasion's failure can be
eeRtinue," KeMICs Widd.
"13e should be outer
"The CU is free and easy,
operating on its own. It should
be like the FBI,..yespon,;lble to;
somebdily 1ikl, the JiA De-'
partmhnt,',,,,be bald.
T ` ~~CIA conttuediu er
All es, theme gibs
The ,CIA is morel -Vaan an
intelligence agency. It isli
political operation now, 'getting
more money than the State'Do-
partnnent gets, and spending it
as it sees fit.
HE BLASTED the CIA'as a
kingmaker in foreigiwco4.jtltries.
"We shouldn't support an
Individual and let the man
use the CIA to exploit people
In other countries, but that's
what we're doing. We did it
In Cuba, and it's not fair to
the American peo ie."
Kellis said th I4 made five
ajor mistakes ' the Cuban
affair: ,
1 -It failed to put knowledge-
able people at the head of the
CIA operation. "Of all the i
people directing the Cuban
situation," Keliis said, "not
one of them knows anything
about guerilla operations."
2-Security was bad. "You
can't undertake an Invasion
of this sort without good se-
curity. It seems everybody
but the American people
knew what the CIA was do-
ing."
3-Able exile leaders were not
selected.
A ide Urges
4-T1ae 'invasion 'came too Il
quickly.
S-Recruitment of anti-Castro
fighterir vas h*indled badly.
On this last point, Kellis said.
the CIA defied the President.
Mr. Kennedy had said no pro-
Batista exiles were to be re-
-ruited, but the CIA recruited
them anyway, Kellis said.
KELLIS SAII? the counter-
revolution should have been
started in the motu /'th
a few strong and loyal guerilla
fighters, then should have
spread slowly to the people in
the valleys until the operation
was 'laze enough to be effec-
tive.
Castro's government would
-,have been most vulnerable
from''an bconomic standpoint,
kellia said, and s 1 o w and
steady sabotage from within
would have been effective.
Keliis knows guerilla opera-
tions.
For two years, he was liaison,
officer for guerillas in the Bal-
kans, where he turned a band
of 100 into a force of 5,000..
When the war with Germany ;
ended, he went to the Pacific
as an Office of Strategic'
Services officer to harass the
Japanese.
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BECAUSE of Kellis' back-
ground-he has served in 50
countries - he was asked to
supply Mr. Kennedy with in-
1 formation on foreign affairs
'during the presidential cam-
aign.
'?'I wish he had asked me
about the CIA," Kellis said.
Kellis, 44, is a former Uni-
versity of Detro't political lec-
turer. He live, at 1817 Cass
Blvd., Berkley. t
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