FULBRIGHT'S SOFT LINE ON CUBA STIRS 'DEAL' TALK IN PANAMA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 23, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/08/ A-RRTFD
NEW YORK
JOURNAL AMERICAN
T UI FE IEMCC1ACY
Special to the id, 4i'.,Joaa:aaal-:Smcrican
PANAMA, Marcia 28.-Thr', speech of Sen. J. William
'k""ulbright (D ;Ark.), reported here as a plea for co-
existence with Castro's Cuba, is viewed with consterna-
tion and alarm as a?disastrous blow to the struggle for
emergence of true democratic elements throughoutitary and intelligence groups,
Latin America. I consternation is unanimous. .
such pronouncements from revealing the exact picture of
the chairman of the. Senatelthe "deal."
Foreign Relations committee in support of this it is
have provokcel a sudden re- pointed out that the United
examination of a , rumor in States has not been pressing
Panama, political circles, pre- for implementation of the OAS
s'iously discredited as malici- condemnation of, Cuba and
nus. that implicit in te ulbright
This rumor suggests that speech is the implication that
the meeting, between President U.S. should not press for hcm-
Johnson and President Adolfo ispheric action against the Cu-
Lopez-Mateos involved a "deal" ban age ressor.
the United States and There Is spcculatinn as to the
between
nection
Cuba with, Mexico as interinc- ivilh fthe presence in con Washing-
diary, with the
The "deal" was said to be ton now of Castro-supported
the United States would Panama, Assemblywoman Thel-
that not press for imglcmentation ma King, who is generally sus-
of,Venezuela's proven charges for Castro in nag a liaison officer
for Panama..
of aggression against Cuba, if Although Panamanians ex-
Cuba would cease to aid, finan- pectecilY applaud Sen. Ful
cially and otherwise, the leftist bri'hL's suggested treatp'capit-,
element in Panama. ulation, responsible non-com-
SUPPORT CLAIM munists are alarmed by his
Responsible sources refuse remarks on Cuba, especially
to connect President Johnson since evidence here 'continues
himeif with the "deal." -to mount as to Castro's in-
But it is now being asked if volvement and infiltration here.
such bargaining did not indeed Most recently. reported was a
take place on "Intermediate meeting hgld near the Costa
levels" and if' these levels did Rican border in December to
not "sell a persuasive line" to plot the "future revolution in
Sen. Fulbright, 'even , without Panama,". outlined in written
MAR 2 8 1964
STATINTL
instructions sl;ncd ; - Blas[
Roca, one of Cuba's chief So-'
vict?-directed commissars.
Meanwhile, among Americans
familiar with Latin American
problems or with Conununistl
fusion as to how such remark-
could have emanated from a,
man in Sen. Fulbright's posi-
tion, a man who should have
had access to fully document.Vci
reports on the Communist con
spiracy in Latin America:
This once again gives rise to,
the alarming question of whatl
happens'to intelligence reports.!
SEPARATE STEPS
Sources here then explain'
that intelligence must oe
broken into separate steps:
The gathering. The analyz-
ing, The interpretation in re-
dation, to U.S. interests. The
use.
Sources here claim that
American intelligence failures
have seldom been in the gather-
in
Greatest failures, they
charge, have been in the in-
terpreting, and even more in;
the use. Or rather, they cloim,!
in the failure to use.
Sources here fear Washing,
ton roadblocks prevent in~eili-I
gence Information from reach-)
ing quarters where it can, be.
effectively used.
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