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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700390016-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2005
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Approved For Release 2005/01/27 CIA-RDP75-00149R000700390016-9
azine article quoted an official'
as saying he did, Mr. Salineer
still said he could not go be-
gotiation to the alternative of yond his statement.
military action." The article notes that John
It quoted one "non-admiring J. Mc,Cloy, termed a "tough-
official" as saying: "Adlai
wanted a Munieh: He wanted
to trade the Turkish, Italian
and British missile bases for
the Cuban base:."
von ng os or xc e, a i cwtied, voIved summed it up this way:
"Nothing." .. . -" - - - - -
minded" man_ ,who has held
several key Gov~el;ppnent posts
in the past,__ WS_ summoned
from a business. conference in
Germany to Work"-with Mr.
At NSC ' Stevenson in the r 9-- egotia-
Meeting tions on Cuba_ aid says that
Mr. Stevenson was at the "White House aide Arthur
White House today partici- Schlesinger was, ,assigned to
hating in a meeting of the write the uncompromising.
National Security Council Exec- speech which Stevenson de-
utive Committee, which heard livered at the 'ti. Iv -p>7 Tues-
a report from Assistant Secre- day," October 23.
tary of State Averell Harriman Roles ,Assessel]
on his fact-finding mission to
India and the kind of aid The authors assess the, roles
needed by India in fighting of several other presidential
Chinese Communists, and cis- advisers in the week leading upI
,cussed continuifng 'Cuban crisis
negotiations between American to the decision for the naval,
and Soviet representatives =apt blockade as the first step in a
the U. N . series of lotions planned z ftex ,
When reporters asked ME. aerial pictures disclosed Sovief
Stevenson if there w `ff,~Y
thinL,accur?""ate about '41SIMU ' n Missiles and bombers; in Cuba.
c"x sls role in the Saturday, It says one of the men in-
1W i P t 411 h
read the article carefully, but
had glanced at It and "found
five inaccuracies in ra id sc
-
Approve
st~~ t tc t
xs 11 1 , Aref
nA
up himself and w to
and doves, ,but, by the end a'
rolling consensus had devel-
oped, Tid except' for Adlai, we i
hada ended up as dawks or,
p
cession:"
Asked if he discussed the
Shortly thereafter Mr.
"The various positions of
members of the NSC taken
during deliberations must also
remain secret in order to per-
mit access by the President'to
the frankest expression of
views.
"I can state flatly, however,
that Ambassador Steve n s o n
strongly supported the position
taken by the President on the
quarantine and brilliantly de-
veloped the United States posi-
tion at the United Nations dur-
ing the days that foflowed.
"He also played the key role
in the negotiations at th
United Nations on the Cuban
matter."
l own. That, a g pi nt .follows:
"Proceedings of the National
Security Council have been
secret since its founding in
1947 and will continue to be.
uncle reports that the'
vpred an, immediate
Mile bases. in Cuba, while the
n".doves Opposed the air strike'
in- e- which he described- as s; and;favbred a blockade. By be- ?
reporter pointed out that It
did not deny that Mr.'-
Steven-son expressed other views dur-
ing discussions on the Cuban
coming "dawks or hoves," the.
article says, "the hawks became
less bellicose and the doves be-
came tougher, and they merged
as something inbetween."
Secretary of State Rusk's
"position does not come through
loud and clear-he appers to
have been a dawk or a hove
from the start," the authors
say.
IA I~iicr .Js pn _Me;
Cone. Secretary of the Teraaiie
Whairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, former Secretary of State
Dean Acheson - and McGeorge
Bundy, the President's special,
adviser for national security of-`;
f airs.
Favoring a blockade instead
Lof an air strike from the first,
the article says, were Secretary
Won't Elaborate Hof Defense McNamara, Attorney
Mr. Bolinger refused to go l General Robert Kennedy, for-
1mer Defense Secretary Robert
n?obiem even though he sup-
}orted the President's decision
nnce the decision was made
4 .
oFoki i si~ 24d'o at 'trad~ g
Lovett and Llewelyn Thompson,
former Ambassador to Russia.
The article adds that Mr.
McNamara finally became the
"chief, instrument of the con-
sensus" for a blockade as a first
,s' ep while maintaining the
Optionof destroying the mis-
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