NEW KENNEDY-NIXON DEBATE RAGES OVER CUBAN INVASION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450054-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
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'with full kn
:e0ge of the facts .?Nva.,
ardizing the security o
? furelim pplicy operatiOn: Ati
my rage was greater lattati
could no nothing about it.
IN A TELEVISION debate,
r. KnnecIy idvoeatett help
for:4407 0 e'c'-o$
. ,
who would ,oppose Castro.
the debate Nixon,resPond-
. ed - to. this suggestion w t h
; ware vigor than to any other
; point exrept the Matsu-Que-
d ,,nroy is. ,e., Then and there-
l'.,:irsed Mr Kennedy
n kresponslity.
tate.- -' Nixon 5ald that Kennedy's
n re,i , statement forced him to take
hea softer line and act as if
regain ilie-knew nothing about the t
- :planned invasion though in
statrei? inner government circles he
had haegean iaasdt vcaocas:iving a strong
onstehnetiT
'Oh the trajn2., "There was onfy one thing
Ins of 'toutside I could do," Nixon wrote..
Or of ariy.,Planaler?!'supil'o "The covert operation had to
ing an InvatiOn.,Of ' be: protected at all costs. I
charged brNixon: must not suggest even by
THE ptipmENT did tict implication that the United
receive this ,iriformationie the $,tates was renderin.g aid to
.,,rebel fortes in and out of
119. Y. 1
. ?Cuba. In fact,, I must go to. '
the other extreme; I must at-
041 the Kennedy proposal:
prolide such aid as wrong,
because it,
:mould? violate our treaty
commitments."
vIenrsyrE raRENisedtlYeEDveraie'6rinutres6--
tions. One of them was:
What gooddoes lido to have,
. the CIA brief, a preildentialt
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New Kenne
Rages ver
By RICHARD WILSON Dulles; and D4Ititacked up
, kale*, the Mitutespolls Tribune 1 the Presidenr 'sving' ;thatWashington Bureau Nixon apparce misunder-
stood the sitUstiON ?
-In a' statement. lasued
through the CIA .,Dulles said
that President genpetly was
rween former Vice President not given any don:nation
R i c 11 a r d M. during the campaign about
"ovet or coert
NIN.011 and ,. .
ry :estion Such
President Ken- as the Cuban invasion, Dulles
nedy on the said .thf re apparently .had
Cu issu
ban e. bn ee "an honest misunder.
This might standing" by Nixon concern-
be called the Ingthe eentent,' of the brief-
f f th debate Ings given Mr. Kennedy.
that never . But what was lacking,was
?happened, and It looked very information on whethei.
much as if Mr. Kennedy
won the final round by. at
least as large a margin ,as he
won the election.
The question was whether
presidential candidate Ken-
nedy had been briefed before
the election on the Cuban
; invasion and had breathed
!security by publicly advo-
eating what Was already
afoot. Nixon made this ar-
i cusation in his new book on
j the "Six Crises" of his carter.
A WHITE HOUSE state-
ment yesterday in reply to
, Nixon denied that Mr. Ken-
nedy had received such in-
formation in ? briefingsby
!then CIA Director en W.
WASHINGTON. D. C. ?
The famous television ?Ide-
bates of the presidential cam-
paign raged On Tuesday be-
Kennedy itri
either from
ith CIA offie'
e se, that the ttbi
was b.m.c.Iting stile
fiige invaders
prepaatirMS to
the island,
The W
merit said'
."..was not
election
statement said,
two weeks
tion, when
the CIA Etal
He was tot
I:tulles and ..,,,Ritih,ar4:
deputy di ?
,tent ' said.
Mentioned, 1,,
said, in a 'bri
gays before
;,...
Nixon wro
that the Kannad..Y Statements Ag'candiaate if he- is not to be
on Cuba had been.,tise'only t
.?_ , t ;informed of pending opera-
thin; that "enraged" il '1.1';.!;:tions which rriight be cn-' '
during the campaign, ?i-dangtred by political state.:
. He wrote: "I thought that1CMerits? ? .
. ?
,- ' Another-question: why
?,, should Nixon completely dis-
tserni4e andittisguide the pub.
lie - co 'his, ,rN1-, views in a
canIttailn,tlit .%trhia be was
,',IatiPPCtd ;t0' be giving The
,Ptt0IJO ACPStra !count on
,..,%t whete be it ? ' '
At *hit time, !tiara ? wa$ Ito
,,,i deep.' secretSijt ',elements,
li,
,--,e;'' of 'opinion tba iittanted Cas-
? ;itro . dealt; ,wit i* .figorously.
Castro hiniseifi ket Havana
? ' radio, were ea kg contin- .
-, ually that an ire on of Cuba,
? W55 being pre . At one ,
.,-. time in inyqt 0 *alert was
'ordered. Kilo' ..c. of awe-
,
4 Mon,. plans kIdi5CUSIOd '
widely In 1, ..-t,
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