RUSK DISPUTES FULBRIGHT VIEW OF CUBA POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930009-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 28, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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MAR 2 8 '1964
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Calls Castro More
Than a Nuisance
To Hemisphere
By the Associated Press Fulbright said "old myths";
Secretary of State Rusk has which have guided foreign'
c l a s h e d with Senator Ful- policy attitudes should give way
bright's views on Cuba and has to revised assessments "in the
made it clear that the admin- face of new realities." Mr. Rusk,
istration disagrees with many said the administration, in fiact,
Dints the Senator raised in a has been facing up to realeeeds
p in its foreign policy. He agre
foreign policy speech. that the Communists no longer
But Mr. Rusk told a news, ?
resent a solid bloc
p
.
conference yesterday he goes Panama: Senator Fulbright
along with the chairman of the said the United States should
S e n a t e Foreign Relations take a more magnanimous
Committee on some of the is- position toward revising the
sues brought up in his Senate1 Panama Canal treaty. Mr. Rusk
speech Wednesday. 1 said he didn't want to get into
Mr. Rusk said Senator Ful- that subject because the two
bright's speech was a "thought- nations are now very close to
f 1 d fl ht Akin 11 one
rov
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p
u an 'Dug
g an agreement.
He called it a "contribution to China: Senator Fulbright said; 1111'? Rusk noted during- the
discussion," ase , ter is; ' 1 press conference that he once
important that these matters be, Red China should neither be listed his grandfathers in a,
discussed." recognized nor admitted to the security- investigation as per-,
On this last point the two! U n i t e d Nations. Mr. Rusk sewho had tried to violently
.were in solid agreement, foragreed.
Senator Fulbright has said his, Although most of the news overthrow the United States
reason for making the speechl conference centered on ques- G o v e r n ni e n t because, "I
was to "stimulate consideration; tions about Senator Fulbright's thought one of them was at
of our present course by all speech, there was also a focus Gettysburg."
thoughtful Americans." on United States-Soviet rela- The Georgia-born Rusk inject-
tions. ed this note in what was anFulbright Comments otherwise serious response to a
No Strings on Flyers question about allegation of lax
As for specific
by M sby Mrr. Rusk, , disagreements
Senator Mr. Rusk stressed that no security in the State Depart-
express
Fulbright later told newsmen, strings had been attached to the meat.
"I do not want to get into an release yesterday of two Amer- A number of stories have
argument with the Secretary." scan fliers shot down over East been published in recent weeks
Here's how the two differ on Germany March 10. alleging that a large-scale
,to Cuban situation: Mr. Rusk also disclosed he security caeckup is under way.
C a s t r o: Senator Fulbrig`a had asked Russia for more I Acoording to some, a Polish
ki
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arvey I defector, Michal Golen
called the Communist, regime of information about Lee
on sex and
Fidel' Castro a ? "distasteful Oswald, the ex-Marine accused
1 supplied information
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g P r e s
nuisance but not an intolerably; of assassinatin d a n g e r." Mr. Rusk said; Kennedy.
Premier Castro is "more than 1 The Soviet government has
a nuisance, he is a threat to the i already provided some informs-
' hemisphere." tion on Oswald for the Warren
Boycott: Senator Fulbright Commission which is investigat-
said United States efforts to ing the assassination. Oswald
persuade other non-Communist, lived in Russia for more than
nations to go along with the! two years and married a.Rus-
economic boycott of Cuba have sian girl.
been a failure, and he called fort Many of the points raised by
d the
i
ve
an end to the policy. Mr. Rusk! Senator Fulbright rece
But
,said the economic isloation ofj backing yesterday of Senator United while security ichecks. are
Cuba "has not been complete, George D. Aiken of Vermont,
but it has b e e n very senior Republican on Senator constantly going on, he said the
substantial" with a "substantial !Fulbright's committee. As .for State Department has in fact
amount of co-operation" from 'Cuba, Senator Aiken said,, "I've obtained "a very high standard,
allies. He said the boycott will never known a country to be of conducte" aver mong rits officers
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Realities Being Faced
Their views on other points:
P o 1 i c'y flexibility: Senator;
spy activities by United States
diplomats which the State De-
partment has kept covered up.
"Unrelenting" Effort
Mr. Rusk said the State De-
partment is constantly subject
to foreign attempts to penetrate.
its ranks and he promised "an
unrelenting effort to meet these.
attempts at penetration."