THE PRESIDENT REPEATS; 'I'M RESPONSIBLE'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450087-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
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• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Content Type: NSPR

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Nixon for Gueri1las,i
hacks JFK Policy
By WILLIAM THEIS
WASHINGTON, April (UPI).
- Former Vice President Nixon
thinks the Cuban invasion fiasco
means the U. S. must develop
strong guerilla-type forces to
smash Communist subversion in
Cuba, Laos and Latin America.
Nixon strongly supports Presi-
dent Kennedy's decision to aid
the anti-Castro rebels. But he
feels it was a mistake not to
decide in advance what the U. S.
would do if the invasion failed.
It can be 'stated that Nixon
now is -tonvineed that,"
THIS GO`V.NMENT must
find legal ways to act unilaterally
with its own paramilitary forces
when Communist subversion
threatens freedom, particularly in
,this hemisphere. One such device
might be to assert the right to act
a a "trustee" under an existing
pact until other allies join such
anti-Communist efforts
The intelligence _ axed actual
counter subvel activities of
ei?
this cou f y nine divorced&n.
'her inside or outside of the teal Intelligence Agency.
Laos should not be written off
as lost to the Reds, but a complete
shift of direction is necessary to
savp it. U.S. support for a strong
leader might work, as it did in
South VietNam.
The Cuban invasion failure
must not be allowed to frighten
U. S.. officials from developing
covert forces to 'meet future
crises brought on by the Com-
munists. In short, it's a case of
not doing less but doing more---
and doing it better.
Multilateral action is Impracti-
cal and mere economic assistance
will never halt Communist sub-
version. ~n Latin America. Many
Latin leaders, he feels, will hesi-
tate to act because of fear of
Castroism and the threat of mob
rule.
KENNEDY HAS displayed
great courage and leadership in
facing up to the Cuban threat
and will not be frightened away:
from taking a firm future stand.
Russia's Nikita Khrushchev,!
with all his bluster, will not rl6k
World War III over Cuba--or
Berlin. Nixon thinks he might
try a coup in Iran or elsewhere.
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