THE TIME HAS COME FOR US TO QUIT PLAYING CUBAN ROULETTE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100370028-7
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: May 9, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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MIAMI HERALD MY 9 1963
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CPYRGHT CPYRGHT
The Time Has Come for Us
o Quit Playing Cuban Roulette
Ply ROBERT C. li.VAR.h.
Lord knows, enough has EM.r
Wlitteft about our crt,.,1 in
eptitude in handling the ttr
situation, from earIest feclik
fumblin;.:s unti
tomorrow's new.
est baleful hub
let in. But t he
time, I think
has come to
quit playing po-
litical pool with
it.
Certainly, the
time has come
to quit making
side-bar deals,
L
E ARK under -the-table
barters, with the furry frenetic
wl.o runs the country. The erne
has come to quit buying bodies
hack and forth with money and
drugs and suggested tractors.
The time has come to tell
o find anothez
line-Ol?afthewo time has come
to tell Bobby Kennedy to keep
his mouth shut and to quit hus-
tling dough from admirers to
make deals with.
The time has certainly come
.to cease and desist from allow-
ing Miro Cardona. the disen-
chanted Ctstroite, from mak ng
loud statements about Jack
Kennedy promising him an in-
vasion with six divisions of
troops. Absolutely, the time has
came for the popularity-loving
President to stop shooting off
his mouth about recapturing
Cuba for the Cubans unless he
intends to send in a mess of
Marines and planes and really
knock off the joint.
And the OM.. moot as.
suredls, has tome for Ameri-
cani to step putting them-
Ileh es to 140Itions where
brt'lery and tarter must be
bnpletnenttel in order to buy
them loom from Csetre's
jells Atientina should not
really be ha lite
btg badness ?shaking down
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h..., Lu builmt,
ITN-% In order to ransom the
freedoin of the Iddesiesi.
One of the great hors
come out of World War H Y
You can't do business iii
Hitler." You damned well cal, t
do business with Castro. Some-
where you have to draw a
Nobody ever really wen tor
In the sordid racket of dlplon.ri-
cy, by trying to conduct tivir,
en the level of the tangitf"
Eventually you have either
admit the swindle or eai . ir.
cops.
Cuba has been pr.iSnn
America since ?k-e
backed Castro against th -it
!cal old perverter of
tista. Batista's pervei,i(....i ft
right was calculated along si ?
We have crumbed up the
Cuba deal from the beginnhy
of reosmitio,n of Fidel, when he
was an outlaw fighting against
the limited sins of old Batista.
Nt'e measured emigres from the
Ilatista re,itne, and from all
the othor n' I ti n ;Imes oi
' ;1 4::41.1 the rest, in
Liam. , az the
? ' it, we have
f ? _f visitors/
'
ctal is in :vette, the goy-
eminent is in Moscow, and all
the people are in .Niounl."
I don't know what um Ken-I.
3cdv b.ivs lime in mind for,
Cuba, hut It can't be very caps.'
!lie oi even feasible. itiderta
from tti ecord? So far nothing
the gu, r 'latent has done has
*refl any sort of sense, with
lines of the local ct ook the possible exception of the
steals, bribes, oerssionaliy tow - bluff Kennedy pulled against
cirri a rival, but never reiLy
thing rougb enough bit of business
the Russian! last fall, a gutsy
does any i
which risked a
nst the Syndicate to start nuclear war to make a oniot;
gang war or attract the att,r-,
, which never should bar* bawl
tion of the FBI.
'allowed to sharpen itself in the
Vnder the former sergen't first place. But one thine I do
Cuba Wa3 surfece-prospemits know: The time has come to
Ilasana was sojewel of a city., luit everart.s:
.n eouvcr-
Varadero v. as a fine place "t
%isit; the Guajiro who (,1./t cart ti,.t,F) AMA' with Cube. The,
perk hence men( hal t ;I 1:tirre ILts COMO for Mr. Donn-;
F hoes were not en:.! i70?'S? %Pri, the Great Negotiator, tot
tary at m1,1 ?t v i)tne. And the time has:
lad a suckling tke le/ ,TI, coins for Washingtoni
o add to his hasi,- 1,rtcl;t an
, lei tilt public what it hes on
.n feast days.
its :she. hi referee** to alba,
for tt 'lei how all the public lias
geperaits been told I es been a
hine all flourished. Ii 'Sr lea.
t ambling. cons truct ?,,n, nor,
qght clubs. fishing, mil tr,;-, I
heaters, radio, sugar a.. '
Of the lot, about the eili?
thing left Is estaslikee to rec-
ommend the esentry. Thu
output of murder bee cer-
tainly inereeaed; there Is a
lossalag sheetage he the pets-
oak heavy lacrosse ta 1sua.
mane, Chinese. Omaha. *b-
eret pollee, unpaid Wormers,
paid informers, and unpaid-
ter time ea TV Oa allow FL-
1.1 an eppertamity to con-
wet his usual flm-beur Me-
ade chats.
re-