WILL HOLD TWO JOBS COTTRELL IS 'NEW LOOK' IN POLICY ON CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100970008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 13, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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/WILL HOLD TWO JOBS
Cottrell Is New Look'
in Policy on Cuba
By RICHARD H. BOYCE
t:, r ipps-Howard staff writer
Tim new loolz In the
policy on Cuba is: fast
. ilking 48-year-old For
c ign Service career offi
C(T in Co ell, wh
wrai11 ho own wct ho
jobs in the State Depart
-anent.
Already dubbed t a
who took over DTe od
win' s' bt this week as `De
putt' 5k'lstant Secretary o
State for Inter-American of
fairs, Mr. Cottrell quick]
found himself wearing inoth
?r hat: as co-ordinator t)f C
pan, affairs."""`^*~
Wr. -Goodwin is the bras
yi ung Kennedy protegee who
took so much on hiirfttelf in
iiependent of his chiefk,';ha
lie won appointment to a less
lr~licate pnsition with the
played the game alcne, Mr,
Cottrell means to play it with
complete inter-relation of gov.
ernment officers. Mr. Good-
win speaks no Spanish, but
Mr. Cottrell speaks it.fluently,
as well adequate Portuguese,
the -language in Brazil.
Mr. Goodwin had no Latin
Americali hackgropnd itt all,
but Mr. Cottrell h.:a innre
than 20 ,years' experience
:)uth ?f the horder He has
Dl FFERENT
Whereas Mr. G o o d w i n
Peace Corns.
s?'rvr ri In Venezuela. Cohsm-
ii a, Panama, F,t uador and
Graz 1.
Mr. Goodwin also lacked ex-
pcIripnce in dealing with other
government d e p a r t in e n t s
while Mr. Cottrell comes to
his new dual post fresh from
his handling of an #inter-gov-
P'-nmental task force whose
job it was to counter com-
munist guerilla warfare in
South Viet Narn.
CI, UE
Su.?h inter-working is the
`elue' tQ_ futur? t i f States
paTi~y in handJj the Cuba
-rtshiem. Hej*tb "& 'Several
government*VwWricies each
ad a piece in the action.
Now. in adcitidrl to his special
deputy job YAking the load
off his Timm {jl:rte bon -, Assis-
tant S(kre~ta t FIait Fd'vin
M ~4iartli, s t rlxIl
txyy.ccko In effi-
len'yew r of tie ~r>n-
- Tb'se lncjud tie Dcfeiise
D girt elht, J-isti,e, Hea!ih.
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ucation and Wes ?ar e
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th
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F
L formation A e icy a;;d
e
Mr. Cottrell ; ai.p, iatment
was tanexpeka(,,l: :,nil to his
additional assig ;nip:), as Cuba
co-ordinator cs.T:r' osi as sud-
clcnly two dav, later.
Thr= idea fit 1r originated
In tilt 14'hire T: .; ';1r+ ' Cot-
trell .c.a r?ali told,
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