LETTERS TO THE TIMES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700400009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 5, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

MAY 5 gq~
NEW Y0MPpTd $For Release 2005/01/04: CIA-RDP75-00
;Letters to. The Times
Charges of Cuba Assailed information was Ynirkcrlll' different
_ from the situation ue actually un-
Senator Kea ittg Is Challenged on covered in Cuba. The evanescent duality of the
Sources for Data. Senator's private intellijgence was
best shown by hisI charge made on
To rUEntxorepe Ew YolK Tirgrs : Jan. 31 that he had "continuing,
ou repeat.a tall tale often absolutely ~, y confirmed and undeniable
The INew York,,limes eai- - s . `1-
been.-destroy'et . This charge was
er would succ i to this
cy i of g' iSianage- demolished by Scary IVicNama-
v7
,r ra's TV briefing et even today
~; ; ~si4ra axl" and. undeniall'eyi1ence'' r.{gjd turn
'or ntlt r has
A out to hav n so phony
been ter i;tg the epui tx p possessed
Against g an unprepbisessing
soie itX, pendent cote of intelli- background ,? e Senator's latest
ge?iee e sbQut, Cuba fir, r p reliable charges abou w 13uasian troops
th> n the ,product of our.- established in Cuba deserve only "hp-hum"
Lobe nz11e1rt intelligence ,agencies. classification. 4iittedly rt 3,s `hard-
Such a claim is absurd er to proved wrong whenst ing
In the interests of accurate report- about {pp strength than abou un-
cause; as,:
come` io
his inform
he Y`a r
ord itraight: den of prof is still on the aiitvho
It s b no means! 1 fact that challenge %ffrccal esI4i;ates. Havir
Serr' or eating is g tt is in- made his c air es th elsator again
fc rQr ~ `li?ove In t' Inter has run aw mom est effo' t
b T. d,ging from. our April ;
-}; the Senator has never toM us how
. ..
to* tOlidv int '"'nee he:,
901rer -the Government's ''intel-
ligen'ce judgments" nor its action:,
in the Cuban crisis were,evG misled
by any false estimate~ias, to Soviet
intentions, Tyre ru t lotrg-
range missiles were 9 ea
in Cuba had been ') p>#dled in
bras came
to Dirt oYtririittee ,as to all
Govermnent intelligence ircies.
Senator Keatii}g was by ltf means
the ohly one to hear' off, it."
rumor. tail.- between, rumor and Membe he
proof lies, a v"a 't gu*.: i syices.
As of Opt & Senato h _,atin b d
rA , 1 as uu on Ma 1, 1.96'.
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eL e.. ? In fr,,!:t, a ream r ingT4 trigs I
S"ena"te speecir bhf zytig t C missile antnwr _ cmr.nrTn.Y,
Although this rtunor a contrary of anypolrticai MA at on. Uzi the
to a belief held by sortie Gpver>~ment. i bads of t~reir per#ormance no rea-
Kremlinologists everyth possrbfe }sortable person can lipslbly wonclude
was done to check it out ntil the that our estimates would bear any
U-2 flight of Oct. 14 a them, ef- more of a distinctive Democratic
forts, however, failed to turn,, up any coloration with Clarlt Clif Or as
proof. Yet the Government kept`,on I chairman of the FRreigt iitemgetice
looking, and the flight, will li.r djll Ad (plmy 'oard Ulan -up unti
: I ?ow
unCover? the proof had actually been they have borne a distrrlrrx e-
.orcTered before ti 4 W_8 nator publican color ,t1_=- .y elcl Q n Mc-.
Once the irre" onsilclure of
the Keati n a ac on our rn a li-
g` nee is eC 11, t=e problem you
estrmatesrereaenin t e fe l t,
vth# It ai e oiflica mt % and
e
hence not
c letel o f c Ve"t
disappears wi fiof
The times to su est t t m scan
intelligence oft a o ored`
beca.rtaeTf ie men w R prow These
judgments rare- a o$ tee o0 the
President's
oNyil._ ni- 3 n;5i
After all, the nation's to Intelli-
gence official, Central Intelligence
Agency Director John A. TjcCone,
1g't-e4PP~ ep"u`TS"fican "tN'e eail
of o4Y leeri"se'ntelligene igency,
4r' y re use p, idelttify No Political MQ#
gym.