STATE DEPARTMENT MAN SAYS: ANTI-CASTRO INCIDENTS NOT ORGANIZED MOVEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300180029-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: August 6, 1962
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ate Department Man Says;
Anti-Castro IncideAts
CPYRGWot Organized Movement'
An official of the State Depart-
ment said Monday^^ it would be
"foolhardy to estimate isolated
Incidents against Castro's govern.
meat as an organized resistance
movement."
He is Richard N. Goodwin, dep-
uty assistant for Inter American
Affairs of the
U.S. State De-
partment-Goodwin w a a
questioned by re-
porters Monday
afternoon before
giving the final
speech at the
Warren A u . s-
tin Institute in
World Under-
standing a p o n- Goodwin
gored by University of Vermont.
Goodwin said that at the time
of the invasion of Cuba, he was
an adviser to President Kennedy
on Latin. American affairs
"among other things."
in the invasion of Cuba, "the
government policy -' making me.
chinery "broke down" at the time
of the decision on bow much
backing the invasion would get.
Commenting on the Central
intelligence Agency, which has
been blamed for, the failure at
the invasion, G e o d w i s- said,
"We gained a much clearer
I.
Idea of wtat our intelligence re?
sources actually are."
From the incident, Goodwin
added, the United Steps formu-
lated its policy of containment of
Castro's Cuba, which he said, has
been working well.
Goodwin said that although
Castro has admitted there are in,
cklents of shooting and sabotage
in Cuba, the United States cannot
count on an internal revolt in
Cuba.
When asked whether or sot
the government has again been
approached by Cubes refugees
with requests to back an inva-
sion, Goodwin said most reports
of such Incidents same. from
Miami newspapers.
Of the revolution in Cuba, Good-
win said, "The Cuban revolution
went much too far and wrecked
the economy. It is an. urban
country and they pulled an agra-
rian reform.,.
Commenting on other questiom
pored by reporters, Goodwin stat-
ed:
The United States tends . to
u derestimale the danger of com-
munism in Latin America. The
danger is in the discontent acid
turbelance among the people
rather than the strength of the
party.
Russia may be losktgenthusi-
asm in the job in Cubs. "It's
clear they are not satisfied with
the economic progress, but.
they're not willing ? to pour any
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cited several slosh Iles, then add-
ed wryly. ','Tttgre In e a few Dem-
ocrats among them, of course-,.
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tloa froedan, offers a natural
place f 0*,?-VommunL~t
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for all pf:I.atltt America.
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