WE CAN'T BLAME FOURTH FLOOR ONLY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600010023-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 1999
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~~'t Blame Fourth
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The FAUrth :Float; ` written and Wieland) were in a po~ y e Fro-Castro- State knows that, even had
by Earl Ssmith U.S. Am- sition to us lam of the Eisenhower
b ad- they tried, Rubottom and Wis.
prevent Miller us minfatrutln.,
.....? u+cac vu lUAlly all [n@ Mall}!! for in o
cation pf,.the > book? entitled officials (notably Rubottom the ears 11
10 d gs of the Department of
- . w a.uuA uuring me
time Castro rose to power.
As best I can make out,
Mr. Smith's general t h e s i s
--outlined on other occasions
- seems to be that while
ambassador to Cuba he insist.
ed to the department that
Castro was a Communist;
that our policy toward Cas.
from - ...?I --w lucxlrai L:asrro from reaching the
Borng above the fourth officials prevented Secretary hands of Secretary Dulles and
floor to Secretary John Foster Dulles, et al, from seeing or president Eisenhower.
Dulles. the intelligence reports from More especially when Allen
Mr. Smith is to be congrat- Cuba. Dulles, brother of the sects. :
elated, of course, on his rec-
ognitton that ` Unfortunately, dir. Smith's tary, was head of CIA and
Castro was a strictures appear `to be more must himself have been well. nd on otic efforts ato influeince ad of a left-handed reflection on informed about Castro'i~ ido.
partmentai policy against hin, Prosident Eitenllpwer and Sec- ologleal 111clinations,
fourth floor officials. I f or
one would bate to believe that
,
at a crucial time in our his-
tory when the Cuban prob-
lem was making headlines In
our daily press, Secretary Dul.
not take the initiative to read
briefs on the snore Important
Jar Cuban Poll% dec4lojIq
-
ore
ver, anyone who knows"
No, let's be realistic without
being unduly critical, A lim-
ited amount of pro-Castroism'
seems to have been the of-
ficial policy of the Elsenhow.:
er administration during the
early days of Castro's rise to,"
power. And I credit President :
Eisenhower and the late See-
retary Dulles with being too
strong, in character to want
to pass the buck on this.one
V LOUIS CLINTON NOLAN
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