U.S. INTELLIGENCE TRAGICALLY LACKING'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400460005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 9, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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r ted States has always
cweakc` has been dumb in
ply bu5Lrtess, tragically lack_
In its intelligence. The most
-nng example was
.-,While Japan was
atl n~g for months to strike,
lv tk only' did not know about
It ::but we were bringing the
lijij_our:fieet.and putting
t in nice, little -trap. While.
's. sand, warships were
to ting?to, Pearl Harbor our
hipsand men were sitting like
layplgevns to be clobbered.
* 'lien there was the "Battle of
t o bulge." With victory ai-
l ttit in our. grasp, it was to be-
_y of death with
hoes .of our troops caught
"fin a p Weer, action that could
hate rbeen avoided by good in-
CPYR,GHT
Mac lhur, who was supposed
w td,ace intelligence out.
el nsisted that the Chinese
Qm1 Ugisto were not taking
fu rset61 a o believe lieve It until his
armies were overrun and pushed
L :back .and had to retreat with
heavy losses.
There is evidence that as far
"back as 1961, Soviet bases and
Soviet.. troops were on Cuban
soil. 1W, have the blunder of all
bunle~ when the CIA en-
y e ra N an invasion force to
attmpt(he overthrow of Castro
an cc jfnced our government
it woul ;.be a mere clambake to
do; so. 'ids pitiful handful of
invaders were met by a well-
trainttii "t-tilitia of over 25,OW
with yn tern arms. The CIA
had.,sm ed up a pipe dream
that #.tt/ ople of Cuba were
read' t* , se up and overthrow
i government.
spends a billion dol-
a:,~ and without having
l o Congress how and
Inds It, With its own
ripressive headquar
hundreds of em
Pt rmy.of "agents" and
l t brass, It ap-
information
newsmen ,
ports after
but for them.. _ .~ ~.
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