ON FOOLING PEOPLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200100062-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: March 21, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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TRIBUNE
11ORNING 72,101
STATINTL
MAR 211962
On Fooling People ,,
$ir xd. M.. Naxon's new boob, ",My, such intervention would violate U.S. '
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" we would lose all
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account of international inue an of our friends in Latin America, we
the ballot box Itfz servek purpose robably would be condemned in the
in exposing the machination of~ o nited Nations ... it would be an open
ernment plotting aril proves tree >. on to Mr. Khrushchev . . . to
tum that "you can fool some of t'h into Latin America and engage
ome o e ime but you can, hat would be- a civil war and
people some,
fool all of the people all of the time. y even worse than that."
But it shows that governments laments that during the cam-
even democratic ones - are not above ai was thus thrust into the
fooling people as long as they can7.'iront`c ition of appearing to be
This is not unique to the United. fter#on stro than Kennedy."
States. In similar forms, the attempt ;? recall the ill-fated Cuban 11 to keep the public ill-informed, or int , and the denials and eva-.
worse, to mislead public opinion exists"" 's ion onsibility which originally
in many high places. cloake e` sordid mess, it is not be-
In dealing with the American-spon- ` yond understanding those who plotted
cored intervention in Cuba, Nixon, at it uould_ have chosen to_kee it secret.
the time vice-president and Republi- 'X` a a enough but to
_Us can candidate for the presidency, re- manipulate public opinion with actual
counts a se" lye bolien lying at the executive level, suc _ aA
W en the irec or the Nib n em to ed, is an admission of
Cen ra n_ e e ce A e c Kenn perver ing e principles of democra-
niy, Nixo iva , actor >. the tic government.
book, attended. The purpose was to For an administration to make -de-
acquaint both parties of state depart- cisions, misguided as they may be, but
went, policy then underway. presumably believed to be in the pub-
Nixon,
executive course, as a member of lic interests, . is the responsibility
p tive was ? arty` to the leadership. To deliberately misinform
lot to overthrow Castro. I He says the public brings into question the
he was astounded later in the cam- value of that leadership.
paign to hear Kennedy advocate in a Mr. Nixon by his own words has,
public speech what already was' the exposed the calibre of his own politi-
`covert'' VS., policy. Nixon `saw this cal philosophy. He obviously employ-,
as jeopardizing the secret enterprise ed the election tactics of a county;
and to protect it, fie now `recounts, he dogcatcher in the realm of world of-
wds forced tp.cieno>flnce what Kennedy fairs even while he was vice-president.
openly espoused. ow, Allen Dulles, has , denied. that
Nixon in his campaign speeches Press ent ennedy-had ~een briefed
called Kennedy's proposals for Cuban on Cuba. This, no doubt, will be dis-
Intervention "the most dangerous, ir- puted but one thing is clear, the best
responsible recommendation." He said man won the presidency.
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