DRAWING LINE ON CUBA RIGHT BUT TARDY POSITION FOR U. S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800160056-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: October 25, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

-banitlzea - Mpprovea ror i elease uuj-
3 1962
Drawing-tihe on Cuba Rig
But Tardy PDsiWon-lor U.-.S.. .
e quarantine on Shipping into Cuba, anct the s Tew
point statement of Monday even are the oori0ct" -IA
Tpe lit? haq b%L dtikh' jlte Soviet and their;
c.uaan ,puppets m y
sitoatkm
The Central Intelligence Agency and the Administration of the
present and of the past knew Castro's ? leanings. They have known
of the Russian Infiltration. 'may have 'known t #t the nW viiment
within Cuba, and the movement from ltt out uoh, were train itlar to
the United States.
American support to..the better Interests of the Cuban people,
years back. and months back, would,have helped avert the buildup
which we so latently face up 49 nOW..
Tice P-resident's stand' will .be ace*. ?by most Amarkana
the only stand we can,take. ,
'Rut it should have been t tqn ear!ter.
:tho a rain rit ,
The American people ve
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and.hade ee+" t GG
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SecI filton.Youn , of . nth Dakota. Repubticali, has been i
formic ?public fctr ,a , s , leeeks, That missiles were. bt
# i~:: futia, altd?. rapt Fit. rp Is so more r]tan' a ~InsIer
coutlter.g,Rarrittig,, i (;ty1s, tex ban asReat ~? t d
War. x .:,
We do-;hope, Aldo that Ahe.Ataetkan -government will :hegfu'xito
intelligence Agency. Its undercAftr people of the Armed Forces, aipd.
begin to believe -the, ;Mtelllpnee of ,.ev { the tout Ist or. Anterlean - in
business abroad:
Hitler told In '$'Me~ln ;1 pf" what he Intended~frotskyl Stalin,
and now Khruschev with his ' /e;il bury you" statement, b~-t ~tdtd
Americans., and the world .ttiet~,ainis of obliterating our`iree society.
The trite old, old,staterttent ; of "To be forewarned Is to -be '$
We are glad that the 'rodent finally made the Aimeeiato
position clear-we are sorry he 41d not move on it earlier.
,EDWAP
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