NO EVIDENCE CASTRO USED SOVIET PLANES, MORSE SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500340071-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: May 15, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2004/01/16 : CIA-RDPS35AT149R00050
By Warren Duffee
oa1Md Pre, latemAti0ma1
Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.)
said yesterday the "Russian
Migs that the Castro govern-
ment used to help thwart the
recent Cuban invasion actual.
ly were U. S. planes' son( by
this country to the old Batista
regime.,
Morse said his Senate Inves-
tigating subcommittee heard
"not a bit of evidence" that
there .ivas a shale Russian
Mig ht Cuba. The commit
tee's witnesses included Allen
W. Dulles, head of the^Cen-
tral ittWliaruco Agency (Cift)
and Secretary of State Dean
At the a#me time Assistant
SenAte'Dpmocrgt$d leader Hp-
beet H. Humnhrev. (D?MIhn.1
lagd or maybe even Burma.
Clark spoke on a tadlo pro.
gram (Beportet's Roundup-
MRS),
Morse, cha)rmaa of the Seb-
ate Foreign Relations sub-
committee on Latin Ambtlca,said on a ,TV program w(t
Sen. Kenneth..B. Keating . Sh-
N: Y,) (New York state atA-1
tions) that there has been a
lot of mteinformatibn about
')S'f4plance that were uped
egabist~the planes .of the Cu.ban exiles were American
Ewa k? Ivasion wtd thus failed to
'Ifs proper for'nio to say make tills of f'the at
b
y
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that not a bit of ovidence was~orui 1on t the tiles
role"in. the W-fated ,invactoo
deeislag'than Dulles' CIA or
'any ether' ronp in 5 ttvern-
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