CIA AND CASTRO: TOGETHER IN MCLEAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400260067-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: July 19, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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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.__
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