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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200100021-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: March 24, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Not all U.S. citizens will view the "
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interested in deter'lYiining who is telling the truth
today ah(who told it in 1960.
Those who believe that the' mistake on the
part of our govermiient'was not`'in the failure of
the invasion but in our goverwnent's participa-
tion in the affair will not be especially interested
in the current charges, counter-charges and de-
nials, for in the minds of those persons the policy
of the government was wrong.,`
The current debate does it' least one thing:
It shows the difficulties candidates can get into,
or the difficulties they can get their nation into,
Those who believe the U.S. was taking the
.wisest course iii promoting an invasion of Cas-
1tt'tuaCd tli the mistake was simply in
when they compete for public favor. During the
1960 campaign Mr. Kennedy began demanding a
militant stand against Cuba. Mr. Nixon now
contends, In his new book, that this put him,
Nixon, in a box, because the administration, by
means of the was ma termiding an inva-
sioa b~ f~course he couldn't admit
hi as was going on.
So, Mr. Nixon says, he had to go to the other
extreme, which be did in one of his debates. He
attacked the Kennedy proposal as "irresponsible
because it would violate our treaty commit-
ments" He said the Kennedy idea was danger-
ously irresponsible" and if followed, it would
"lose all our friends in Latin America" and be
an "open invitation" to Premier Khrushchev "to
come into Latin America . . ."
Mr. Nixon now says that Mr. Kennedy's de-
mand for strong action against Cuba put him,
Nixon, in an "ironic position." But many citi-
zens, we believe, will, say the real irony is in the
fact that Mr. Nixon in his debate was telling the
voters that it would be dangerously irresponsible
to be militant against Cuba when Mr. Nixon him-
,IfieIf was privately supporting a militant policy.
'One wonders if perhaps both Mr. Kennedy and
Mr. Nixon aren't still overlooking the fact that
the U.S. did in fact lose friends in Latin America
as result of the invasion attempt and that while
Mr. Khrushchev has not, personally gone into
Latin America, the Soviet bloc communist in-
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