STEVENSON OPPOSITION TO CUBA POLICY DENIED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700390015-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2005
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: December 3, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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v5tev'e Opposition
To Cuba Policy Denied'
U. N.: Envoy Says Article Is Inaccurate
White, 1 ouse Cites Support of Action
Adali Stevens said today these was nothing accurate
about a Saturday Zvening Post article picturing him as dis-
agreeing privately with President Kennedy's firm policy
in the Cuban crisis.
At the same time, the White House said that Mr. Steven
son, American Anbassador t.6 the United Nations, "strongly l
supported" the Pr.` ident's
cision last mont ~, o impose toward ending the threat posed
naval `quarantine. again s ~ by Sovf missiles and jet
shipment of offensive weapons bomber-&- ri Cuba.
into Cuba.
White House Press Seer eta Article Called "Untrue"
Pierre Salinger told reporter;
"there is absolutely no qu= i In New York, a Stevenson
spokesman said the Alsop-Part-' Mr. 's ie- tion ' about Stevenson he lett "story is inaccurate and
maining as A Am mbassador to t the untrue."
ThW'Saturday Evening Pbst
artic* was written by Charles
Bartl tt, a close personal friend
tie~Preident, and Stewart
Alsop, Washington editor of
t MThagazine. Mr, Salinger said
the President ., a:s_ Never dis-
cussed the. Cuban cx} S with
.anX- reporter and he had no
idea who talked to Mr B artlett
and Mr. Alsop,
"Strong During Debate"'
The magazine article was ac-
companied by a full-page pic-
ture of Mr. Stevenson which
bore this caption:
"Stevenson was,ptrong during
the U. N. debate, abut inside the
White House the hard-liners
thought he was soft."
Mr. Stevenson, the article
says, dissented from a con-
sensus of the President's key ad-
visers favoring the naval block-
ade of Cuba as a first step
The agreed policy was to
destroy the missiles and bomb-
ers-by an air strike orifVdsion
if Soviet Premier Khrijkichev
ent's
had not heeded the f-'a
demands for withdr the
"offensive" weapo
The article sayMr.
Steven
son flew hex rday,
October 20, before ,The Prebi-
dent's speech _ t h e following
,Monday announcing the block-
ade, to join indiscussiorfs of
the National -Security Council
executive committee.
,'-Only Mr. Stevenson, the art-
icle says "dissented from the
consensus."
Negotiation Preferred
It?added that "there is dtsa-
greement in 'retrospect . about
what Stevenson really wanted,"
but "there seems-to be no dgtlbt
that he preferred political
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