CIA AND CASTRO: TOGETHER IN MCLEAN

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CIA-RDP88-01315R000400260067-0
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December 16, 2016
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November 5, 2004
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July 19, 1975
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THE ti; 4SHIiiGTOJJ STAR Approved For Release 200V01 {2-': e1 2DP88-01315ROOO 00260067-O P. ? W~rgu>" Stu Staff Wri[rr' As political art, the mural at Pizza -been in the newspapers and an TV_'I pizzas though." - - - ? AT SOibIE OTHER pizza Xlar.Iol-,. Picasso,s Guermca,.but it is 3LUA Acid ed, but for Mansy, it is at best a little ly prescient. ..talked-about as et. Most of his cus- Ed Robins is a Whea caric tur t . tamers already know as much as covered the pizza, parlor wall- at 1313 Old Chain: Bridge Rd: in 1970 with these want to kc~o~.v about the CIA- Mad .-Magazine spies, Nixon and they wort: at the agency's headquar- Agnew-patting,a huge CIA building;.-, tens.about one good.whit of an an- Fidel Castro waving a flag'of friend chovie asway. ship from a. CIA window and: a South. The guy (Robins) deserves rec o - Vietnamese 'adrift. in an American nition," said Mansy, "What he put on rowboat, the picture seemed like-silly- -the wall has all come to life, particu- . fun. - larly the little part with Castro Several years ago, a customer-an NOW'; with -stories of CIA involve---`-~ elderly.- man-complained about the meat in assassination plots aimed at part with "(Timothy) Leary for Castro prorinent_in newspapers and President'.' because he said it was on the air waves, and with the with disrespectful, but other than that, -dt awal from Vietnam riot long-past, I've never had any complaints:" only the ""verry interrestir g" cartoon'. ."'The artist. came in a year, ago of.-"Laugh-In'.'- character ?Arte'John- -with anew sketch, but the customers -son 'seerns out- of .keeping..with the' voted it down and .we haven't seen times.,. him since.,' For Michael Mansy, the pizza. par- FOR ONE 18-year-old regular cus- Ior owner, the cartoon at first seemed. tourer, Janet Rehnquist, daughter of like a blemish; now, it's a blessing. : ,Supreme Court Justice William. When. he bought the shop about Rehnquist, the ? mural . had never -nine months. ago, he' thought. the made,much of an impression until mural was a little corny'and' outdat: she was asked about it by a reporter. ed- "I'm glad I' dragged:'my feet.: "I didn't think very much about it about replacing it,". he said.-It's. because you can't believe what you brought a lot of good publicity... It read'in the papers: You can't let the papers run your life," she said."Your can't say all of a sudden, ''The CIA is crooked.' The papers come out with all these great big headlines of scan- dal, but I know-from my own experi- ence that not all of what they say is true. The papers didn't just distort things' about my clad, they lied:. That's why I don't believe everything I read about the CIA." AS JEFF TIERNEY, the man who ladles out the meatball sandwiches,. put it, "Some people laugh'-some rerr'i ple don't." - Another regular customer, 2 -year-: -old Norman Binsted, said,"I think' it's funny- All the important happen-, ings of-the last 10 years are all on. that wall. -It- seems line circum stances have'drilled holes in all those things we used to believe in-they are all defunct now.", . "The'CIA used to be like the mili- tary, protecting our country. iNow they seem more like .the. Praetorian Guard of Caesar," Binsted added. "i block out most of what I hearabout the CIA because I'm so sick of cor- ruption. After Watergate, who ca;l stomach the CIA? I'm a salesm,!n and it affects my positive mental atti- rude." ? . "Watch, my CIA business will drop. way -off during -lunch. after this story," said ILiarsy jokin ly.__ Approved For Release 2005/01/12 : CIA-RDP88-01315R000400260067-0