RESIDENT KENNEDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790096-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 96
• Publication Date: May 6, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790096-7
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9SIDENT KENNEDY has a
'4 American newspapers to volun-
:airily censor news not in the "nation-'
:l interest." I
This is in keeping with his cam-
ins oostc principies or a free press. `come like us?
Obviously, the national interest is
jency toward America's role in the Ll`l1116 416alllJL %,OaLLY Ulf Wlllt..ll V1CMO world is needed.. were bas:iailod to occur."
$ut it's too bad the President didn't It's true that the Russians have the
advantage of being able to control
translate this sense, of urgency into li their press and operate undet strict
it more serious study of the Cuban secrecy. But if we become like them,
situation, rather than an assault on a,hv chc uld nther countries want to
"It sems clear enough by now that
the ioyf Aa . not because of
inythit t was printed,( _ but be-
cause of what was not printed and
at tl should i, uye. found out
subj ct to malty different interpreta-
tions. That's what makes us the sort
if Country we hope the under-devel-
9p4d nations of the world will want to
$n vtate.
Sg the Cypan crisis, there was un-
~ipybtedly a school of thought that felt
the national interest would be best
served by exposing preparations on
this soil for a military expedition to a {
foreign country. This line of reason-
ing would deem it against the nation-
al interest for this country to be party
to an undertaking that might brand
i is an aggressor nation in the eyes of
the world.
From this point of view it would
definitely have been in the national
interest to expose and publize the
Cuban invasion attempt. And from
he administration's point of view
.4uch publicity would have been very
ouch against the national interest.
Phis, country ought to be strong
f enough tQ withstand' such differences
, f opinion.
T~tt (1 l in? editorially re-
viewing the President's request In the
fight of the u ituation, made a
(,rood point:
Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/29: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100790096-7