CHRONOLOGICAL ACTIONS REGARDING BARTLETT-ALSOP STORY ON CUBA FOR THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BY THE ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR COL. STANLEY J. GROGAN

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06689151
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2018
• Case Number: F-2016-01022
• Publication Date: December 1, 1962

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tions Regarding Bartlett
For I% Y
The Assistant to the Director
Col. Stanley J. Grogan
Charles Bartle
the Agency the
do for tiae
Rouse had approve
telephoned. Nr. ticCone
r he aidtob34 up o
GZ14 call um back.
In the late
Bartlett-Also
he 'would call back
on Cuba
r " I telephoned Pierre
could check, after which
he I 40 to
'working on it
ea, to me during the forenoon. Re askcd if I had heard
might see Bartlett sop in cannectio vith the
n Cuba, I told him I st�U didn't have 'word, but would
learned $Orklething definite.
irhat about the meeting lath
e still hadn't given an answer to
off until we get a go ahead on this.
Pierre 3alinger called me wt
did not vant the DOCI or other
Alsop on the Cuban affair.
ledSainger to follow' up his
linger said he didn't have a
in checked.
Also p.
The
about the
yet, but
later in the evening and said the Whte Rouse
people to grant an interview to Bartlett and
lett telephoned. Re said linger bad called him. and said that
d not be available for an interview', nei
Imuld anyone else
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DDX., ned me titt d
nd Also)? iutr 10 a.m., 12 WOVfl1ber
on1, tc nve been ter by Walter Fade
bee up by U1te Rouse. Cline correctly sta
him aio11tp Ue cid he understood from Alec
i fld thEt CU could see them. I
d Alsop at his
ab2rt
ble to reach
id he
fense
or
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he Presidin
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nod that tbe DOI vi1hd to ve 1
and Alsop arouzid LQO today ; phoned Bartlett.
Ala*e hv1n =oh vith Dean Acheson today, but he -
so aa to meet the DOI at 'Limb,. Bartlett- called blitok to
he could not canool the, luncheon with &c1iest:41#
gested the time of 2;30- p.m. today Niial oh was agreeable to
The DOI was interviewed in, his offiee by Aleop and, Bartlett
13 November I ves pze3ent Among other things the Dire
interview Vas that it was -wrong to give 1:rub1icity tO what goes
of the ectiye Committee- and particularly when it states what spec
yere roc Med. by. specified individUals.
I asked Alt
when they..
15 November
script beca;use
this cheek 'Must
get me an,i advance �
and. Alsop said that they
1.1cGeorge Bundy, Dean Aehoson�
renuscript.
Sr. *Cone telephoned, me at
on the; Ouban.situation came o
told him thought did all.
show their copy o the Fre
hoped We would be able to get an
hinx a o
in phoned Bartlett and
gets their copy bartlett E
d, the
some pretty
OA this Was onfidential
iett if the
and as
about 0
d. let ia hAve a *ow
y said it had .to be
asible to furnish a
White Rouse,. by
- They id that t
Ontained th
Moliemara� Ambassador OM,
-
ormed General .Carter ;re
on a to haw tbzieflng
tt and. Stewart Alsop.
t they had said the
se. PlcOono said he
we did to get it
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Rouee
cot,y. He
contained,
t to- me
b pen
about
ct�on of
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U-2. Z told
thought the intel
eiease from his
on what a good job the
I telephoned enezalCarter and told hii I vould not be
fr the Mite House, because their copy had already been
and Alsop and the iibite Rouse didn't want anyone to know that
the article. Gener.l Carter id, this vas OK) he woad read about it in the
IICIWOM50140 4
t because
had given
said th or wondered if we go opy Of
t4t027 by as. and Bartlett. I told btht no, I had
r about this. The manu,script, I told him, had been
they said the Pzbesident was the only one who Would
a were parts of the article critical of Adlai
did not 'mat anyone to know that the President bad
relay this mato:Age to Vt *Cone.
nd asked, for the 3tor why the A
by AIsep
d.
promi
told him the reason the Agency dian
id the President didn't to
ined criticism of Adaai thevensort4 I also
nation yesterday to Mr.
honed Stewart Ala
d advance copy a
that they didnit have
3 December, she would
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act in sayinis that t
stands 4 Decenter 1962.
I received the advance copy
others in the Agency who had an
Mr. tricCone telephoned to
d not yet rece
art was in Latin
as it exrived, and it would
by Ohs,ir� Boberta; vas
today
press release on the
mLe aribution to
the article.
of .any coutraversy on the
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a Gene
ea "White House
d aviber
h r the
would
r or a
rezdALe4 th.t the tiale
told h eked X
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&Loop) X would state
a people who
detbt Lett end AIsop
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