FEATHERS FLEW OVER CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450049-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: March 22, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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More feathers flew faster over the Cuban
is.ue in the 1960 presidential campaign than
n.rre starred up by any other pinpointed
i.ue They have been stirred up again by a
na.ld statement of Alicxt C.-?Dulles, former
CIA director, that Richard Nixon errs in a
< iu;n-nt his opponent knew ahrut prepare-
ti( is t ,, invade Cuba before Mr. Kennedy
ai!id for an invasion in one of his cam-
pa:gn speeches.
It helps to review this rtickus feather by
1 ne first feather flew on Oct. 20, 1960,
it^r candidate Kennedy unloaded blame
(u',., nn candidate Nixon and said the
.^-! etes ,hould "attempt to strengthen
nor,-Batista democratic anti-Castro forces
:..f? and it, Cuba itself who offer eventual
iu>>e o! o erthrowing Castro."
To clinch the proposition he said that
far these fighters for freedom have
had virtually no.support from our govern-
mrnt."
In his bbok "Six Crises," 'IIr. Nixon says
}:;s rival knew this was what the United
Slates was doing. though Mr. Dulles now
hell ves Mr. Nixon misunderstood what Mr.
Kennedy had been told as part of his cam-
p ' i n ht iufing by the CIA.
Re that as it may; Mr. Nixon certainly
hat the t:nited States was doing. Yet,
' hr dad he have to say about Mr. Ken-
erh; s ^p s$l'
on O. & ',ht ca!lod it:the "most chock
ingly reckless''.prupoaal ever ttta i
history b r a presidential candidate
campaign." He iaaid it vitoiated U.S.
ments and was n invitation for.the
Union to intervene on the side of
Castro. He said the result easily
world war.
The next day Mr. Kennedy accused:
Nixon of distortions and added this.,
"You have developed d* tQdvuque a
ling your writers rewrite my,staterne>ats
me for things I have never said or ad!
Gated. I never have advocated interven
in Cuba in violation of our treaty
tions."
Mr. Nixon thereupon fired back a "W
his original statement he only would haver
been "advocating the policy- which the std`
-the same policy Mr: Nixon said
"shockingly reckless" when it first
proposed by Mr. Kennedy.
Never did. two political chickens def
each othee,,more disastrously-one by
-
eating ething the other aired
helping to- into effect, the ot_hir I
being done, '#hen each ?ra.ersing
The moral; Foreign poicy sbooi
iced t'nc truth for the feathers.
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