WASHINGTON WHISPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300180011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 4, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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U. S. NEWS AND
WORLD P? E PO1,,T
CPYRGHT
JAY 4 1964
W spers..:.
Nuclear-tipped. missiles supplied to .
Castro for antiaircraft use cannot hit'.
America's new U-3 reconnaissance
planes. The, U-3s fly much higher
and much faster than the older U-2s
that are in range of the Russian mis-
siles in Cuba.
President Johnson's reported cool-
ness to the British is said to grow
out of British insistence on breaking
the economic blockade U. S. has
tried to apply to Cuba and on mak-
ing long-term loans to Soviet Russia.
Said a Briton: "If McGeorge Bundy
ever leaves the White House as ad-
viser to the President we will really
be in trouble. He sees foreign affairs
in a wider perspective and is in-
clined to be more reasonable." ?'"
Richard Goodwin, once a controver-
sial adviser to President Kennedy on'
Latin-American affairs, is back in
the White House as a speech writer.
Some officials interested in a "hard
line" in dealing with Castro now are
worried about the extent of Goodwin
influence on White House policy.
Robert McNamara, Defense Secre-
tary, is tending to come under more
fire in Congress now that some of his
younger aides are interested in
-- building him up-as a political figure
and possible running mate for Pres-
ident Johnson in November. The De-
fense Secretary has. not been known
in Congress as a particularly adept
politician.
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