THE OVERLOADED CARRIAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800030019-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: March 5, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Overloaded Carriage
FT WOULD BE interesting to peek at
. the private report Attorney General
Robert Kennedy undoubMMy has pre-
pared`13F-his President brother on his
recent tour of Europe and Asia. Part of
it, we're sure, will offer some thoughts
on the question: "What's wrong with
the State Department?"
This question has been widely asked,
in tones troubled and indignant, in re-
cent months. It has been asked most in-
sistently since Cuba was lost to Com-
munism, a pro-Western Laos proved to
be a $300 million mirage, ouL2 licies in
Congoi in A ola and in New Guinea
too often seemed to help our enemies
and hurt our friends, and in other areas
of the world there appeared to be no
American policy at all.
We have no idea what Bob Kennedy
may have concluded. Since he is a
Fharr-witted. nrartical-minded vailr -
Rusk Acheson Kennedy
tary's level, there would have to be in-
ter-ager.cy clearances - the Pentagon,
the Central Intelligence Agency, the for-
eign-aid people, the formation
Agency, maybe Treasury or Commerce.
And finally the paper would hav to be
approved by the National Security
(:uu ricil ..."
if this is the process required to
determine the official attitude-toward a
predictable political development in a
small Latin American country, it's little
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