WALTER SCOTT'S PERSONALITY PARADE

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CREST [1]

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General CIA Records [2]

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CIA-RDP75-00001R000100020067-2

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RIPPUB

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November 17, 2016

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June 6, 2000

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March 14, 1971

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NSPR

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Approved For Release 2000/96/13_.:,-CI , DP75-00 FOIAb3b Q. Vvhy on historians h arm ne .... : , ;e fiasco on President Jack Kennedy? Wasn't it rr' M y President Eisenhower's fanIt?----David Leeds, Cam,- bndUe, Mass. /;. it was President Fisenilower" who gave Allen Dulles, then in charge; of. the Contra{ Intelligence Agency, the go-ahead on the. agency's plan to trFlin and equip Cuban exiles in the United States to-invade ?Cuba and overthrow Castro. When President Kennedy too:. office, he foolishly followed the advice of his military and permitted what was obviously an ill-prepared invasion of Cuba. This resulted, in the Pay of Pigs fiasco for which he generously assumed the blame. Similarly, v,-hen Lyn- don Johnson succeeded to the Presidency, he, too, followed the advice of the military and continued the fiasco Kennedy had begun in Vietnam. 'the reluc- tance of incumbent Presidents .to alter the foreign policy of their preclecessors is one of the great. weak-: noses of the American Presidency. -Approved For Release 2000/06/13 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000100020067-2