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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450029-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: March 24, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Those who believe the U.S. was taking ill
wisest course in promoting an tnvaalov of CW
?m. C,iba and that the mistake was simply in
interested in determining who Is telling the nth
today and who told tt 1A X860.
Those who believe that the mtataM on the
art of our government was not in the fatxuta of
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the Invasion but In our governments '-
tion in the affair will not be especially 1Marasted r
in the current charges. - and de-
nials. for In the minds of those PersonS Shs?poUcy
of the government was wrong..
The current debbtb does at least one thing: ?.
It shows the difficulties candidates can gat Into,-*, difficulties they can-rat their natibn ?nt0 s
wben they eomppta for pub favor. During the ' ?.
1980 campaign Mr. Kennedy began demanding ?
militant stand against Cubes Mr. Nixon Wes, ~
contends, in his new book, that this Put .him.:
in a box. because the adminon. by.
Nixon
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means of the CIA; was msmsrznlnding an Inva-,
ston of Cube and of ooUt$ he 'oouIdnt adtnit f+
that it was going on. -,
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had
extreme, which he did in one of his debates.] He
attacked the Kennedy proposal as "9t respoaaiblsf
because it would violate our treaty commiW
ments," He said the Kennedy idea was "danger-
ously irresponsible" and if followed, it would,
"lose all our friends In Latin America" sn be
an "open lavttation" to Pressler Khrashc "te
Mr. Nixon now says that. W. Kennedy's de
mand for strong action against. Cuba put him. ?
Nixon, in an "ironic position." But msi citi-
zens, we believe, will say the real irony ii In the
fact that Mr. Nixon in his debate was telling the
voters that it would be dangerously irresponsible
to be militant against Cuba when Mr. Nixon him-
self was privately supporting -a militant policy.
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the U.S. did in fact loss friends in Latin America ,k`
as result of the Invasion attempt ash that while
Mr. Khnuhchev bas not personally gone Into
Latin America, the Soviet bloc. eos>lmtmist In-
fluence has increased in Cuba since the invasl*t
attempt
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