JFK RAPPED FOR BLOCKING EXILES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200250012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: May 8, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Island, So even it the &J
did
carry missiles th ,tir1
,
still at least 40 hidden ves
on Cuba. None of the Other
equipment, except for eiu to
aircraft, were supposed, to
have been moved.
IN RETURN Khrushchev
got a promise to remove U.S.
missiles from Turkey. (this
has been done on the grounds
that they are outdated al-
th(Agh Khrushchev must have
thought them a threat to have
wanted them removed) and a
pledge not to invade Cuba.
Kennedy is making good his
no invasion pledge by pre-
venting anyone from attack-
ing Cuba, even the refugees
who want their homeland to
be free.
This then explains the great
victory We have achieved. If
we make many more such vic-
tories over the Communists
then we may as well plan to
live in a Communist America
within a few yeam_
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JFK Rapped for Blockin
To the adttor.
In the Eatt,,>le I haute! read
:about President Kennedy's
steady output of smears of
'the Cuban refuggee? and 'their
raids on the'Cuhan mainland.
The American government Is
protecting Castro from com.
mando raids originating from
any place In the Caribbean.
Why?
To find the answer led us
go back to the time of the
Cuban blockade, The block-
ade was hailed all over the
United States as a victory for
the free world, but was it?
Jose Norman, a leader of the
Cuban exiles whose reports
crancernin; the conditions in-
side Cuba have proved far
more accurate than the CtA's
findings, has stated that in
August of 1962, when most of
the ss said there were only
3,50re0 technicians In Cuba,
there were actually 11 missile
bases, 6 more near comple-
tion, 15 air bases, 14 civil air-
ports which could be con-
verted to military purposes,
6 naval bases some with sub-
marines, 33 camps of Russians,
Czechs, Al?erians and Chi-
nese, 26,0(X) troops, 169 air-
planes, 350 artillery pieces,
'S75,000 light arms, 33 war
ships, 204i0 thousand local
militia, and SO missiles, many
hidden in caves, Quite a de-
ferrsive build-up, eh?
OUT OF ALL this Presi-
dent Kennedy only wanted
the missiles removed. He look
Khrushchev's word that they
had been removed, What proof
did he have that the :missiles had
h e e n remov,'d outside of the
word of a man who Kennedy
said had lied to him before? Not
much.
He had smmn nhntn,.rnnh
w uc) showed the crates that
the missiles were supposLd to
be In and in a few cases'some,
photos that showed metal ob-
,jects with the demensions of
the missiles, yet not one Rus-
sian ship was boarded and
checked to see if they really
had the missiles and not just
mpck?ups. What is more, only
.40 of the SO or more missiles
were reported to have left the