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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930026-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: March 26, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75-0014
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MAR 2 6 1964
What ruibright did in this connection was to spread t}ic Su
-7 G?.:. ?" .:, `i uicion that this Administration is moving toward de facto recogni
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In his speech FIJI bright said it -vas crystal clear to him tha
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Therefore, lie v: e h1lil' better accept the view that
7i 'D I Fti'WIS Castro re rime "is 11ot'iiltely to be overthrown" and figure out sam
Way
i re o live with Comn,tmi:;lu remaining only 90 miles from eu
117ashiil~7ton, l:i;u?eh tin-As the Outlines of president sh
Joi111FO11's own foreign policy are hazy and involve a "let ' etc I11M/J JAi l7SOn`S Off-;he?Cuff Words
us reason together" technique, it should behoove his Senate
Democratic leaders to keep their big mouths shut on: This proposad by itself might -vela have been accepted, even b
foreign issues until the Administration's stance-is firm and Republicans, as just a Fulbright exercise in directional indhii
except for the fact that Johnson had unburdened himself yesterda
clear of certain views.
Instead, they have now deliberately and independently intruded. In an off-the-cuff addition to his speech before building 'tradi
First, Majority nadet' Sen. Mike Mansfield (Mont.) suggested neu-union lenders, the President had lid file time had collie to us
tralizatior, Viet Nam. Today Chairman J. William Ful-1 ,reasoned agreement" to cairn down world trouble spots. Well,
blight (Ark.) of the Senate For- ."reasoned agreement" concerning the Caribbean Red trouble spe
sign Relations Committee pro- ., - --.~ ;would, certainly have to be along the lines of Fuibright's proposal
have. "the right" in a free coon-
b
,try to say what they thin](, But
is this necessarily so? Forei? 11
capitals consider both Mansfield,
as Senate party leader, and Fu1-
bright, as frelations chair-
foreign
,man, spokesmen of the Aclnlinis-
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that when Mansfield talks about
the merits of a neutral Sdutin
Viet NTain he is floating P. trial
balloon for the White house to
determine sentiment.
And when Fulbright speaks
out for a global "peaceful coex-
istence policy which would in-
elude Iced Cuba, the same reac-
,tion is natural, particularly when
.the White House, as it did today,
-reported that "thoughtful consid-
oration will be given to his .
views."
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were stiui alive. ltenneuy was committed to get rid of Castro. John
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sou is not a prisoner of Kennedy's Cuban policy, although he ghoul
be inspired by the idealistic utterances of the late President on t