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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200140115-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 115
• Publication Date: May 13, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

proved For Release 2000/0,61$ :'CIA-RE P70-0005
STATINTL
Was&i*ton
For the past weeks' -. or ever since the disaster in Cuba
-the Central Intelligence Agency has propagandised the
press,to "prove" that the invasion failure was ail the-fault
of the 'exile leiders. 'CIA argument has covered two
points, both demonstrably falser 1) There was no uprising
in Cuba because the Revolutionary Council was "too right-
wing," and 2) Castro's Communists were tipped off to ad-
vance by the loose talk of the exile leaders. Both the New
York Times and the Washington Post have already bought
this line and are spreading It from tjteir editorial pager.
The rest of the press can be expected to fallow suit.
The facts: 1) CIA imposed the leadcsrship of Manolo
Ray and Jose Mira Cardona. both ex-Fidelistas of estrense,
leftist views, by threatening to out off all financial aid to
the more moderate Cuban exiles, and 2) the,Revolutionary
Council wap not informed of the landing site until the
invasion forces were going ashore. Castro, however, knew
where the landing was to tapke place and had his troops
deployed and waiting. Had the exile leaders been told
where CIA planned to land the invader!,, inoreover, they
would have fought tooth and nail against it. As one exile
leader said tome, "No one who knew the terrain would
have chosen the Bahia dry Cochinos for a landing. Obvious.
ly a CIA `expert' looked ,at a map and made the decision.
Even the Pentagop was shut put."
Adn!lnistration censorship, and Allen Dulles' missionary
work among newspapermenwljling to accept "consultants
fees" might have kept the.Cuban.atory buried and allowed
CIA to pin the blame oA, the#le group. That it has' leaked
out is due to the tear lg atioa of the Cuban, them-
selves. The Pentagon, too, has added sortie pertinent, facts
of its own--the most significant being that it urged Presi.
dent Kennedy to give the Invasion forces air and naval
cover when the first bad news came in. Mr. Kennedy, tow
ever, preferred to listen to Secretary of ,State fleas ,Busk,
and Ambassador Adlal Stevenson.
Much has been ?sid about the effect ?on American pres- f
lige of the trage y In Cuba. Domestically, however, the
I.fN r
impact has n equally devastating-front the President's
?-teat's
standp ' The image, so carefully created during the ( -
electA campaig of courage decisivenes ant I ~;Pe i !
~1tuvua~c,
Even the most devoutly pro-Kennedy members of the arts
? ,i' a ddicste
Washington press corps now speakf th Pidt' i I
oe.resensn-Bobby Kati
experience, of his belief that. words are.. a substitute for for the
deeds, and of his fumbling inability to ccutte to grips with
problems. There are even some sniggers over boasts h%
the While House stag`that Mr. Kennedy had done-away
with' the cumbersome National Security Council and was
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J ~ ~ ``:'~. .plM/K+~'#'a ;Wtvtlt . sprung ftomi,their
fob aitd.to come up' with
to the P;dWmt from the Cuban
rsening. situation in ,Laos. Whatever
other faults,, he may be a good choice
,,atoll, rpthleisii, a0A determined. And he
to his broths ' 6~,' i.~ .
Bobby's 40
ill. be to look into the Central In.
.' CIA has spent billions of dollars
Iiit
~f to Carr ^n~ Jt own---"of _. vari ace with
'how of theta ~ qs Congress, It gave and to those
.who ove thte merit of ; ngman Rhee, med.
ring about the admission of Red
Nations. Though some of its activi.
, Nirectot Allen s Dulles, CIA has been
to cloakand-dagger operatives in the
known to frieu4 and foe alike.. A
iaiware:;of,thetsa facts and is ri.
Mr. Dulles out. At the same' time,. the
red a ' frW balloon-the rumor that
by Bobby Kennedy. This will cause
lrtuaent. But the political re-
alppolntment may be disastrous for
tratlonf Espionage, counter-eta.
valuatioon of Intelligence information
requiring ` experience and judgment.
been too deeply. engaged in politics }
and he is too young. One bobble as
e jokes non current about nepotism
ij their humor, Add t9 this
i ' ettgali-like it#duencr
n 'et!'piosltre situation ca}'develop.