RAYMOND MOLEY NIXON KENNEDY AND CASTRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500440027-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 27
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Approved For Release 2004/01/16: CIA-RDP75-q
RAYMOND MOLEY
Nixon, Kennedy and Castro
0 LD enemies never die. They merely refurbish their when he; made his statement in 1960. And .!#ile Dulles
rusty weapons
And since Richard Nixon h
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een so c iiiKed #n with a statet tht th ha
menaered been a "mis-
well endowed with implacable critics, his'new book, "Six understanding."
is apparently in the. White House, for there was issued R, NIXON then bsued a statement standing by his
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from that source a denial'that when Candidate Kennedy
the book and ? Fadd lag, "President
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to overthrow Castro, he knew that preparatio for such the practice he hid ttab - 4sh ed.ill, 19$?; hehad given in
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a revolt were already under way under the di ection of s
ructiones that #n? _ - to United States intelligence
the United States Central ntell#gence, er r operations abroad; S-1 -Kennedy wad to be as fully
briefed on our foigri pitblems as T has."
On Sept. 23, 1960, Mr. , Kennedy gave an ;exclusive It r#
statement to, the Scripps-'Howard newspapers saying, If the critics, `r xon uesU # be fair, which I
doubt, ' they would "turrl this questiq back to Messrs.
"The forces fighting for freedom in exile, and in the ii._
mountains of Cuba should .be sustained and assisted:' Kennedy and Dt
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Mr. Nixon knew that. cvrh nrpnar9ttn;,e f,,. obey the Orderq of Prr+xi-'
fusion In tuba were already secretly under wa ,and he ~ o t it Cuba ,iyuk, y a oyyr, ,tnnecW about the most
#inpt~ gist-Cuban"
also knew that his opponent had been briefed orb all 13 ? tiosis? It so, Vky does Mr. Ken-
i~iases of foreign policy b Allen Dulles, chie# a CIA, neoy now deny thab4,knew what he w was supposed to
veracity Is involve e s at iC t
He therefore had nq op'tibn but:tb believe tha , y.{ knw? A matter of,
pose a matter for clarlficat in.
nedy was recklessly using than information ptfl. en-
something ' which the Eisenhower administ ton was Just .what does?M,.;,Dulles'.ly.Quthed wor\
preparing. m ers anQlp "._4Vh" sn}f~r&anding
whom? Does he mean that the 190,~,~,te c' v e state-
But before rdplying to the Kennedy step ent, Mr. meilt is due to a lapse of me - rv
Nixon asked Interior Secretaxy Fred. Se.atpri l qo to the "misunderstand";what,the two- > Dt, ~; Nixon
White House and find Out af` Mr.. Kennedy had been jn- covered? If soh4~l! Dull ,a ~ aylt be omitted
,h , doi