NIXON BOOK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450069-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Content Type: PREL

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NIXON BOOK
rY HARRY KELLY
1?'ASHINGTON MARCH 21 (AP).ALLEN W. DULLES9 MER' DIRECTOR OF THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AG ICY SAYS RICHARD M* 'N ON WAS IN ERROR WREN
?fE CHARGED THAT PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAD BEEN BRIEFED DURING THE 1960
CAMPAIGN ON CUBAN INVASION P PARATIONS.
DULLES SAIDI NOWEVE~R, pg LIEVED THE CHAR --- A NED IN IXON'S
NEW NIXON OOK! SIX CRISES .-..VAS . THE RESULT OF "AN O ?H ND#RS ANDINC."
? N CONTENDED KE~ DY HAD BEEN TOLD THE CIA VAS INC TO TRAIN _
CUBAN REBELS FOR AN INVASION AND HAD JEOPARDIZED THE PLAN IN CAMPAIGN
OFI:TORY.
THE WHITE HOUSE DENIED THIS YESTERDAY, SAYING KENNEDY KNEW NOTHING
OF THE INVASION PREPARATIONS UNTIL AFTER HE WAS =CTED AND THAT
NIXON'S "ACCOUNT APPARENTLY BASED ON A M UNDSRSTAND$,Nti.
I'HITE HOUSE PR S SECRETARY-PIERRE SAL N R SAID DULLES HAD TWICE
f?IEFED KENNEDY DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE BUT THAT THE BRIEFINGS
CONSISTED MAINLY OF A BROAD -REVIEW OF THE WORLD SITUA'ION?-
IN .AA MEMORANDUM YESTERDAY UL S AID,
"HERE HAS BEEN HERE, I B!LIEV A HONE MIBUNDE LADING. THIS
WA e _ PR O BAB LY DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE MESSAGE MR . NIXON WRITES HE
REr, ? IVED AS TO THESE BRIEFINGS. THE CUBAN SITUATION WAS, OF COURSE,
.~I r:LT WITH IN TIE BRIEFINGS I GAVE SEN. KENNEDY.. .
Y BRIEFINGS WERE INTELLIGENCE BgR~IEFING ON THE WORLD SITUATION.
THEY DID NOT COVER OUR OWN GOVERNMENT'S PLANS OR PROGRAMS FOR ACTION)
OVE1 T OR COVERT"
IN LOS ANGELES NIXON' OFFICE SAID IT HAD NO COMMENT ON THE
:L LLES OR WHITE HOUSE STA.
NIXON, k'HO NOW IS A MEMBER OF A LOS ANGELES LAW FIRM, IS SEEKING THE
a LICAN NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA.
IN HIS BOOK THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT SAID KEN DY HAD FORCED
HIM INTO A DILEMMA ON CUBA DURING THE CAMPAGN THIS WAS, HE SAID,
T}:L ONLY TIME DURING THE RACE HE COT ANGRY All ll R AL.
KENNEDY SAID NIXON CALLED FOR CTN O'STRENGTHEN THE NON-
BATISTA DEMOCRATIC ANTI-CASTRO FO EXILE AND IN CUBA ITSELF
WHO OFFER EVENTUAL HOPE Of OVERTHROW N6 CAO?
HE DID THIS NIXON CONTENDED, AFTER HAVING BEEN BRIEFED ABOUT THE
TRAINING OF CUBAN EXILES.
NIXON SAID THAT KENNEDY'S CALL FOR STRONGER ACTION PUT HIM ON THE
SPOT AND FORCED HIM TO TAKE A PUBLIC STAND AT VARIANCE WITH HIS ACTUAL
VIEWS BECAUSE "THE OPERATION HAD TO BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS. I
!U T NOT SUGGEST EVEN BY IMPLICATION THAT THE UNITED STATES WAS
'_NDERING AID TO REBEL FORCES IN AND OUT OF CUBA. IN FACT I MUST GO
TO THE OTHER EXTREMEI I MUST ATTACK THE NNEDY PROPOSAL TO PROVIDE
rdCH AID AS WRONG ANA IRRESPONSIBLE BECAU *IT WOULD VIOLATE OUR TREATY
C011-;lhITMENTS."
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