INVASION OF CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450013-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Content Type: NSPR

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cans ctj rtly learn from strangers
or from i1p81kc11::e."
Promr4J by this opinion. I recently
made .a h'ief visit to Nlexico, where It
talked t0' o.iite a few informed Mexi-.
cans ary,11 other Latin Americans re-
siding JJi Mexico; I read some of their
papers; iagazines and books, a few
of what brought home.
Ard1' assure you, Sir, that not-
witlr & all the resolutions adopted
at I ~i Vste, regardless of their
von &itro himself; despite the
which seems to me as valid today as
when 'Alexis It TcFoue iVe wrote in
the 1830's: "Ihe uu4orlty live:, in the
perpetual e.tercise of self-adulation
and them a"+! 4rutlts which the Ameri- l
the'Empite of Japan."
curity restrictions and jeopardizing the
planned Invasion of Cuba whin, during
the 11Q campaign, he criticized the
Republican Administration for not sup- sl
potting the Cuhaa exiles, since Mr.
Kennedy had been officially Informed
on the fact that for months the CIA
had not only been supporting and as-
sisting but actually supporting an in-;
va.sior. of Cuba itself."
As I read those words, the planned
attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japa-
nese began to invade my thoughts, and F
I ( oaks` again hear President Rouse-
velt when he said: "Yesterday, De-!
comber 7, 1941-it date which will live
in infamy-tbe United States of l
America y-M. /~tlenly and deliberately K
attacked btt r~Val and air forces of
now President Kennedy of violating se.
reports that former Vi^e President
Nixon has accused then Senator and
Invasion of Cuba
Sir: Seldom have I been so amus .
by it dispatch in a newspaper as I was
by that of William Knighton, Jr., which
rids of viwrds written and spoken'
that attettpted invasion of Cuba
April, most Latin Americans feel'
,t'iout Japan's attack on Pearl
at. Elmer G. Sebastian.
irnore. March 21.
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