WHITE HOUSE HANDLING OF CUBAN NEWS HIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100150052-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: March 3, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

MAR 3 1963
? P rov0d+For W ease 2001/08/01 : CIA-RDP75-00149
PETE SBURG, FLA.
'HORNING 114,973
SUNDAY 118,349
10 A 7
P. ARENDS ON TIERRA VERDE
louse d h -
By GEORGE RARTLETT
Of The Tinies Staff
hlird to more information ahou
Cuh,n than they are receiving
him the 1 i. sl.ie ds, n
Ill said here yesterday during
a press conference at 16 Port
o-Ca on' " terra Verde.
Congressman Arends, Republi-
can whip and ranking part
member of the Armed Service
Committee in the House, will b
the main speaker at a fund-rais
ing dinner for Pinellas Count
(;OI' at the Port-o-Call Monda
night. Also attending the prey
conference was Rep. William C
Cramer of St. Petersburg.
Referring to Friday's disclo
sures'riy?}John A. McCcne, direc
for of the' en'ra?`'tntelligenc
Agency, concerning 1T ' buildu
(if a Cimmunist subversion or
,+nization in Cuba, Arends sat
he %}_-4 ,,glad McCone put it o
the record?so the American pe
pie would he alerted. The Arme
Services ommittee, he 4d, has
eefi ,n git,en some ntclli2enre re
ports, but I cpr> is not ached
uled to appear before it.
Arendssaid be. was called to
the WVhite House with others be-
fore the Cuban crisis and told
what had taken place, but not
what the administration was go-
ing to do. In that instance, he
said, "the American people were;
ahead of Congress and Congress;
was ahead of the administra-,
Lion."
Concerning a statement by
Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy that
he is not planning to run fort
president in 1988, Arends said.
"Anybody wwho ^liirves that
should go stand on his head in
a corner."
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