UPI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450070-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: March 20, 1962
• Content Type: PREL

STAT
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WASHINGTON -- TEXT OF PRESS SECRETARY SALINGER'S STATEMENT ON
FOt MEC VICE PRESIDENT NIXOt'S PUBLISHED COMM NTS ABOUT CUBAi
"THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT BELIEVE .THAT INTELLIGENCE BRTEFINWS ARE
A PROPEL SUBJECT OF PUBLIC DEBATE BUT AN THE LIGHT .OF TLW ACCOUNT -IN
MMR. N'IXON` S BOOK IT IS NCCESSARY` TO SAY THAT THB_ THEN SEN. KENNEDY
WAS NOT TOLD BEFORE THE ELECTION OF 1960.0f,-THE-TRAINING OF TROOPS
OJTSIDE OF CUBA OR 0? ANY PLANS FOR 'SUPPORTING AN INVASION IN CUBA.'
"NR. NIXON' S ACCOUNT IS APPARENTLY BASED ON A MISUNt?,SRSTANDING.
SEN. KENNEDY RECEIVED TWO BRIEFINGS FROM MR. ALLEN DULLES ON THE CIA.
THE FIRST ON JULY 23', 1960, AND THE SECOND ON SEPT.. 19s 114-60. THE
TWO-BRIEFINGS COVERED AN OVERALL REVIEW OF THE WORLD S I1 UAT ION DURING
WHICH CUBA WAS 6'.ENTIONED. RUT SEN. KENNEDY WAS FIRST' INFONRED OF THE
OPERATION TO WHICH MP, N IXON REFERS IN A BRIEFING BY :ALLEN DULLES AND
RZCHARO 3ISSEL OF THE CIA GIVEN IN PALM B$ACH, FLA., 'QN- NOV. 16t 1960."
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