AMAZING MR. RUSSELL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100390005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 13, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Papa Pap Papa
S. 983,64
INQUIRER
m. 603,438
PHILADELPHIA, PA. , REPLYING IN KIND
U. S. Government spokesntci
state that U2 flights will b
editorial page. You did th
American people a great serv
D ice by showing them ho
.. amazingly naive people in thi.
world- can be in regard t
Communism. Sounds to me a
if Mr. Russell was born afte
the Cuban crisis.
I say let's continue th
flights over Cuba or any plac
else where American sccurit,
is at stake regardless of what
anyone or any nation thinks
And someone please send Mr
Russell a history book at leas
CHARLES MARTIN
Clementon, N, J.
TWW10.W1V,A'i' INSPECTION
inquirer Thank you for printing 13cr
9 trand Russell's letter on you
4,f AMAZING MR. RUSSELL
island. The Cuban Govern-
Tb the or oThe nquirer:!
Your Prominent "Letter of
the Day" space given to Ber-l'
trand Russell who lives in'
England and who slanders ilia;
United States as an imperialist;
country has prompted this re-,
ply. Mr. -Russell sees a big in-
i
cons
stency in the tolerant-
policy the United States seems
to be following toward the.
U.S.S.R. and the hostile policy,
we show toward Cuba. Ile,
wants the United States to es
tab]ish normal relations with;
Cuba and end the inspection;
flights over Cuban territory.
The tolerant policy we are
showing to the U.S.S.R. is due..
to a similar attitude which .they
U.S.S.R. now chooses to show,,
the United States. Our hostile"-
policy toward Cuba is the re-i
suit of Castro's continued hos-
tility to the United States ands`
to Latin America.
Mr. Russell should be ap 1
pealing to Castro to make sin-
cere peace offerings to the,
United States by making repa-1
rations for the billion dollars
worth of U. S. property which
he confiscated; by announcing J
that he will never again let';
Russia set up missiles on Cuban
soil and America need not fear
a repetition of that crisis; by
pledging he will no longer train
,men and women in subversion'
d
an
that it consents to ground in-
continuing C.I.A. and U2 oper-
'at.ions in tZ'-Caribbean? Or;
N%ould it he right to discontinue:
the United States object to a
two-way inspection? if the
Cuban allegation is correct,
the people of this country have
like inspection. of. various spots
in the Caribbean from which it
is alleged the United States is
ponsoring sabotage and other
attacks on Cuba.
If the Cuban allegation is
mistaken or false, why should
U.N. team), provided that the
United States consents to a
a right to know and to decide.
Is it right for us to tinker with
international justice and a pos
sible nuclear confrontation. by
both and to ask the United;
Nations to maintain a two-way
Inspection as long as it might
Philadelphia.
~J4u aCuu LacIlt to other Latin
American countries ? w?it,~.th,
Purpose of overthrowing the }
,governments of those coup.,
.tries and set tip Communist.
regimes.
Without these assurances'
and demonstrated good faith,'"
America cannot trust Castro;
or the U.S.S.R. and is obliged
to continue the inspection;
flights and really should inten:
sify such efforts.
The charge of imperialism
II 'tr. Russell makes against the.;
U. S. for maintaining a naval'
base at Guantanamo Bay by,;'
force, as he puts it, is entirely':
false and slanderous. If the'-
U. S. was; imperialistic it could;
have taken over Cuba long,'
HERBERT P SETTER
Wilminbton,,Deh
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