NIXON SAYS JFK PUT CUBA REVOLT IN PERIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450075-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: March 20, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Cuba Revolt II!Per~y.
DISTRESSING CAMPAIGN
Nixon Says JFK Put
Richard M. Nixon says,
that President Kennedy
endangered the secrecy of
the Cuban invasion when
he was campaigning for
the White House.
Aar. Nixon, in his book, "Six
Crises," wrote that the Cen-
tral Intellig>yn A g e n c y
briefed Mr. Ktxtnedy on l3lans
fer the lnvaaion during the
1'%0 ctrmpaign. .
But the former Vice Presi-
dent said his Democratic rival
Igoe out publicly on Oct. 20
for U. S. intervention in Cuba
"I thought that Mr. Ken-
nedy, witti full knowledge of
the facts, was jeopardizing
the security of a United States
foreign policy operation," bar.
Nlxgn wrote.
said this was the only time
Itir. Kennedy during the cam-
y pign. He said it particular-
disturbed him because he
had been advocating for nine
months inside the Eisen-
publicly.
Air. Nixon's book, pubiislre.'d
the anti-Castro forces be
armed, but could not say so
by Doubleday and now on
sale, recounts rrise' he 1r ced
during his Washington career,
from the Hiss-Chambers tl[se
-to his losing fight for the
arPUirlanr?t?
RICHARD M. NIX4 T,'
? 4-re rcfu_sed -his aslv~,sert
unanimous recot~amendetjor
to make a late 'campaign
speech about the r6ligibus is-
sue engendered by Mr. T{en-:
iaedy's Catholicism. He said
Mr. Kennedy's associates ac-
cused him-of "deLberate re-
ligious bigotry," but he-doel
battered anti-C:athoiJeism." .
? Mr. Nixon think'a'.he Won{
the last three of, the; ,tour telex
galncd more from
because 2t,` milli
OIlERS dirt not watch the
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Othere crises It,,, telaieci ~' Ga
cident in 1952, Fttr'sident
Eisenhower's heart a ?: t a c k,
the attack on him t,~ com-
munist-led mobs r t Latin
America in 19Y5. a,td his
"kitchen debate" xith Mviet
Premier Nikita Khrus thev
in 1959.
eludes these points:
? After HE, ct'fvrt. 1 ye-
toAd a GOP mc,"! .(, k et .-nd
re'-ounis in Illinois ri' Ti +r,
alr'ro he felt there %k a-; ' t,r,
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