REDS RUN ARAB BLOCKADE. . . WHAT MACARTHUR TOLD KENNEDY, NIXON . . . FREEMAN SCORES IN CONGRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200940053-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 53
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Reds Run Arab Blockade ..: What- MacArthur Told
Kennedy, Nixon . Freeman Scores in Congress
Gen. Douglas MacArthur is under-
stood to have told Mr. Kennedy that
the President just happens to be liv
ing in the "chicken house" when the
"chickens" hatched from policy mis-
take. of the past "are coining hone to
roost."
* * *
Ric hard Nixon, former Vice Presi
dent, heard from General MacArthur
that in the ( 'neral's view it 4,l.'c1S
little to deal in a military teat with
Castro in Cuba w her? the real trouble
lies in Moscow.
-ATIAITL
Thee U. S. Chiefs of Staff had nuthiii
to do with the actual planning of the
ill-'fated "invasion" of Cuba. Plartrtrrs
of that invasion made mistakes of the
soul list kind that no U S. military
titan with experience in amphibious
ot'eratiorts would have made
* * *
Uri P k, Srcrt-tar y of Sine. ern
W'1'rrte? House ardus on foreip;n poli:}
arc brim.; shot at after the tiiiisco tri
Cuba and-because of impcrtdinr; !2s+
of Laos to the Reds. President Keu
nedy, however, is not blarrting it f?..r c11,
but hiniself for the setbe*?ks al.rlmttl.
to become Secretary of St:ite wh `f~
"-rt ;f there is; a change in that otrtic k
* * * 1,
William Fulbright. Arkansa+' ?ScriAjor
of the inne'i c'irc'le.
at the United Nations. is nut nu++ le'
Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Rcpres1 i.tat}'ijt
light for an attack on Formosa. which
they think is needed to take people'`
minds off their hunger
Agent-, of Eg''!pt's. Nasser h.-n- ii. `t
caught Chi' Ru. scans trying t