CIA BLAMED IN CUBA EXERCISE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700180019-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 1, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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In Cuba xercise
Editor, The Statesman:
"C. I. A. ? The II' Was For
Ignorance" ? that could belhe
title for a yet-unwritten chapter
on ? that all -unmatched
foreign policy boo-boo, ?Bay of
Pigs;
Lyle Stuart, editor of The In- "
dependent magazine, had been
publishing his first-person re-
ports on Cuba since the summer? .
before. He was in Castro's of-
flee when the incredible news
came that an invasion was un-
der way. Stuart had Written
glowingly of Castro's .program
to better the lot of the long-
exploited peasants, and how sol-
idly they were for him. }le was
alWays sharply critical of the
policy of summary trial and
execution and no habeas cor-
pus, however.
It would seem that if somei
; responsible person in Washing-
ton had been reading those re-
ports such an invasion,'plaIny
,.doomed to fail, would never
have ,been. attempted. Bu ...i
werty there, any responsible per.
4Erids?,in tWashington7?'-',,C4
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