NIXON'S STRATEGY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450028-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Content Type: NSPR

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fiNixon's Strategy
During the last. presidential
But what lingers as an intriguing
--,F- t of Mr. Nixon's story is his!?eaition
at the time to the suspected breach of
confidence by his opponent.
"The covert operation had to be pro-
tected at all casts," Mr. Nixon writes. So
he ,w-cut to "; he other extreme" and at-
tacked the Fr.r.. r,rc~po tl as "danger-
ously irrepr n : ? '
A sid,! fr;nn sr; cuiating on the marvels
of Mr. Nixon's ^ier,tal and political agility,
one ? `neci :liy wonders how he'd have ex-
plaino(I himself -f he had been elected
Presid.:i' - -contn:jtted and willing to exe-
cute th- Cuba pl::n that. he had denounced
as ?d::ngerously irresponsible" during
the c-mpaign.
The White House has replied that Mr.
l1-ennrdy was not briefed on those plans.
Former CIA Director Allcn Dulles says
the WW'hite.House is correct.
viewing the incident in *his -forthcoro inr'
boolr, in eff'ct cries "foul!"
y John F. Kennkly called -for :.*c-i
ing to Richard M. Nixon, despite *-co
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dertial briefing that plans to that effect
were already. in the works. Mr. Nixon; re-
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