MODESETT SAYS U.S. SHOULD SEIZE CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500260023-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: July 16, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Date: JUL 16 1964
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''1 MIKE MARTIN clans saw to it that it was fouled of Fidel Castro should be "fore-
A former Navy intelligence of- tip." most in the minds of our lead-
dicer who was stationed at Guan- LModesett said the CIA had ers."
t.;mm~o Air Force Base said,trained Cuban exiles to fly U.S. "I'm not convinced that Latin ?'.
hero lestcrday that. the timclplanes. Ile said he asked one~Amrnrican opinion is adverse to
has come for the United Stateslsuch pilot, stationed in Nicara- our intervention,' Modesett said.
to ignore world opinion andlgua, what happened and was The three Latin American coun-
t.ake Cuba away from Fidel Cas- told that the planes were halted tries now recognizing Cuba ap-
tro. at the runway. parenily are more interested in
hoc Modesett Jr., who wa.s~ ' ft was simply a matter of tirade with the island than in
'., 'tone 1 at the naval base in not wanting our forces to get supporting its political stand.
Cuba for IS months, made the involved to it," Modesett said. Modesett told the group that
aPmark while addressing a liu?- "The invasion was planned to an estimated 80 per cent of all
('neon meeting of the Southsideihe carried out by Cuban refu- Cubans are simply apathetic
;;otar7 Club at the Privateers''
gees, not U.S. troops." about Castro. About 10 per cent,
Country Cluh. lie said he feels there should he said, is actively against the
There are all 1,1nds of dirty be some way to ''reintroduce'' dictator. Another 10 per cent
tricks that (T to (it) can ply the 'groat refugee power we "is on his side," he said.
u ethercc`t 'lie said, have access to" and that defeat propaganda Need Cited
-Suns of them have beer, d, - -- -Ile said the CIA is to blame
and some I a t '' for not. having effectively or-
lo .std 11 pat in view of tile. ?anized anti-Castro public opin-
fa~ t that on:_- ax -cc Latin Anmeri ion among Cubans and for fall-
call couunr.,: .ow recognize Cas ing to bring about an effective
tro's Cnhp_.mli-intervenlion foe guerrilla movement against the
in a !.t nt r-r Spanish speakin?, dictator.
c t , .-,;onto } are not a "Rot it is hard to engage the
'stingy as .,:te experts" seen support of Cubans," he said.
to hinh The large group of Cubans who
'.fodc:,..a, a Princeton grad-1 are apathetic need to be "told
std ike United States has; !what they can do to help," he.
up two major oppor-. added.
o seize Cuba from Cas-,- The greatest tragedy of the.
'I'll(, f.rat was the ill-fated Communist take-over, he feels,
of Pigs invasion; the sec-~ his the "damage to the chil-
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