JFK &DULLES DENY NIXON'S CUBA STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200100055-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: March 21, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK MAR 2 1 1y6?.
AppromedLffo1 Release 1999/09/16: CIA-RDP70
STATINTL
JFK&DuIIes Deny
Oxon s . e as for
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=V ,asl ington,, March 20 (NEWS.$tireau).-The White
F ouse and forme C chief. Allen ?D.ulles denied today that
President Kennedy hid, been ' told.. of tlbe, pending Cuban
invasion during the hot political.. campaign last fall, as as-
ser'ted. by former Vice President. Richard Nixon,
in&I ,end ige~rin?g~t e,1 . foy ign
In his-..newi book, "Six Crises," j
for help for arAi-
Castro Cubans
after being
briefed on t h e
invasion plan by
'CIA officials.
"Mr. Nixon's
account is a p-
parently based
on in misunder-
standing," White
House Press
Secretary Salin-
er,rsaiil. Candi-
-date _ Kennedy
was briefed twit during the
cainpkig,h by Dulles, then CIA
director, and Cuba was "men-
tioned," Salinger said. But he said
the invvgion plan was not dis-
closed to Kennedy.
"The President does. -not believe
that intelligence brief not
are a
proper subject of public debate,
Salinger, said, rebuking, Nixon.
At Palm $eacb,. He Says
"But lathe light of the account
In Mr. Nixon's book, it is neces;
sary to say that the then Sen.
Kennedy was not told before the
election. of 1960 of the training of
troops outside of Cuba, or of any t
plans for supporting an invasion
of Cuba," Salinger said.
"Sen. Kennedy was first in-
formed of the operation to which
Mr. Nixon refers in a briefing by
Allen Dulles and. Richard Bissell
of the CfA gi' eat `in Palm Beach;
Fla., on Nov. 18,1960," This was
10 days after the election.
Des,-corroborated the White
)Louse version-iif a tatement re-
le#sedthrough the CIA.
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