FULBRIGHT AND CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930083-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: February 25, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Fulbright and Cuba
SEN 1 i'!: l'ur, i,,n Kplations Committee
Chairman l W 11am Fulbright 1D.,
Ark. t, file in !ii,, T eye, tells Critics of
the Kennedy policy not to rock the
boa;. Riddle: %v ha! boat'
'i la l'uha i?olic} is riot a policy, it is a
ctis;islet.
Sen. 1'ulhrtghi'- current rebuff to in uir-
mg people ty'pille, exactly the kind of
speech making has us trapped and al-
lott's such uuinit,u;ated Hells to function.
It takes adiantut'e of thc? fact that our
public's memory is short. S' ii. Fulbright's tragic wrong-
heaite(Iness about Cuba iv'as "idciv publicized at the time
of the Ba' of Pigs. How many n'tnc-mbeI it today?
Whatever .%e are doing in Cuba is making more leeway
than headway in bucking the ii in,t. And any politician in
either party who says "Don't Rock the Boat" as if we were
securely meeting this peril is performing a distraction from
our drift onto the shoals.
Sen. Fuibright's part In all this is sadly typical. Right
stout the Nazi menace, but never equally right about the
Soviet, .he has been dead wrong about Cuba from the very
beginning.
He opposed any kind of intervention t he r e unless we
could waltz in with a group of Latin-American states, as if
our country could order such a tidy state of affairs. In the
absence of "collective security," See Fulbright preferred
to take his chances on Castro. That tiie iecord.
Hvwtver, we do not have collective security in Latin
America. We have collective Insecurity. We are wise to
be attached to the principle, as in NATO. But there is no
NATO in Latin America and depending on collective secure
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ity whenever this involves numerous weak and a hat It
countries means we flounder into exactly what Sen. Ful-
bright helped to give -us in Cuba.
When the Arkansan discovered that even a trickle of in-:
tervention was moving toward the Bay of Pigs he, among
others, demanded that the White House stop our indis-
pensable part in it, call off the It. S. Fill- cover over the
beaches, and back away from even the incrediblyyy, fragile
plans. Sen. Fulbright, who now says, "don't rock the boat,"
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He is on record As follows: "1 am sure that It American.
in the Western Hemisphere would he so severe that we
would lose more In other countries than we could gailq 1m,:,
Cuba.'
How could America conceivably lose more in other, co
tries than we have lost thruout Latin America and by the
subsequent Soviet military lodgement 90 miles from our
shores?
The whole perilous situation, nevertheless, has t ire i
duced to a well planned press campaign devised andl
out to achieve at cliarly defined psychological cod, viz., ti>a1L1
all is under contro.
Khrushchev Is not being fooled. Cuba-based Red subver-
sives in Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, etc., ale not be-
ing fooled.
Out Rock the Boat" pulilician, are cooing to the
uorlil'~ West dangerous dove. _. ..._.;:,,.-~?~=a ifC'.:3q
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