INSURGENT, NOT U.S. AIR COVER, SAID CALLED OFF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100640013-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Content Type: NSPR

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14isurgent, Not
U.S. Air Cover,
Said Called Oft
planned air strikes for an tnva;
sion of Cuba in 1961 were can-
celled by President Kennedy, Sen.)
Frank Carlson, R-Kan., told a`
meeting of Republican women
Monday.
Carlson stressed, however, that
he United States had not prom-;
?scd air cover for the Bay of Pigs'
invasion.
Carlson, it member of the Serif
to Foreign Relations Committee,
a i d the Central Intelligence
Agency and Department of De-1
erase originally planned three air{
trikes. One. strike, against Cuban
]anew on the ground was carried
ut but the other two were can
celled.
Carlson departed from h i sy
tanned text to discuss the Cuban j
it cover situation. He explained:
he cornmlttee bpd received the!
nformatlon I+'rida04 lifter his orig?j
nal speech had bon prepared.
"The United State .did not prom.
air cover," he inld the Kansas}}
L e
ederatior- for Republican Worn-1
"But the inmilon was planned]
c~eC the CIA, and three airlj
t es were fi:irrmed to destory
1t ,.C.ub a n ell; power on t h ek
"The Diana #h make thesef
trikes. were h6td on an island
fr ? Florida. Scr a of them were
iloted by Airrf icans, other byl
balls.
'The first etrOMO by air on Cuba'
ook place. Mtr' it was time for
he second stri! they were told
of to take of'. I The order came
rom the Presi~eah he has ad.
fitted it."
lie said the fFtdent called off
he air strik' , pause of calls
rorn Adlai Stt.tuio n and Chester
wles who taut Sbi this nation
'ould lose frirr& l,t South Amer-l'
ca if the invas;nr, t~t1i' supported
n this manne,'.
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