THE 'HAWKS' SOAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700390007-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 11, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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As incredible as it seems to us, Kenncdy, for< per Arabaesador to x
the Christian Science Monitor can't , Russia, Llow- -lyn Yhonmpson, and
understand why everyone got onset Robert Lov;:tU,, another elder states-
over the reported "soft" position man?
of Ambassador Stevenson in ,the The Post article- reporis that
Cuban crisis and no one got very after con 1'li.;able discussion t he
disturbed over the reported "hard" "hawks" tc a+t:;ed to. become I es s
position advocated within the Presi- bellicose, are,' he "duvccy" tended to
dent's inner circle by other advisors.` become r2o:,c Firm and that a merg-
The Saturday Evenin Post report-. ing of poi,id,rus cane about result
awuat.* w .,,.
ed that Ambassador loy t .pn ,, ing in the :,4c.% bloc1;ade with plans
favored trading Russian missile to follow through, if necessary, with
bases in Cuba for American missile direct niilit a, inters ontion in Cuba.
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It reported that other advisors ter can't laic?., r;4tand why the pub-'
could be divided into two groups, lie has' nog.: tpod cqually against
the "Hawks" who favored a hard Mr. Stevovx: 1.}'s reported position
line and the "Doves" who favored a and agairwt wtie "JJSawks"? whose,!
somewhat softer line. position it Ps:; rrts "would have been
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rdy policy.
The "hawks" favored an immedi- equally foclh.. ate, air "rt`-~-'rik4n4A