NIXON FOR NEW 'KOREA' ACTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500450088-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 88
• Publication Date: April 21, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Nixon for New `Kor* ea Action
By William Theis dom in a given area until the!tration to urge that 'thg He is known to be among'
U ii ed Prna international otter Allies involved join inl United States develop para. those who feel the Soviet,Un '
Former Vice President Rich- the effort. military, guerilla-type forces ion will not risk World War.
and M. Nixon is convinced
the Lnited States must find'j`Mistake' Pointed Out for use against Red haggles III over Cubs. His theory.is'
the legal devices to use its The mistake in last week'alsion.?'s' 'that the Russians will not `
own military force to counter,Cuban operation, in his opjn-Wants Direetion_8hlft 1trade Moscow for Havana any
l Rep subversion in Cuba, Laos ! ion, was that the kennedy, Nixon, who drew headlines mare than this country would
or Latin America. !Administration did not ? de- have traded New York for
He has eipressed theseicide what it would do if the seven years ago by suggesting Budapest--the illustration un-
operation failed. =thin country, 1L1u1ud=consider ring the certain de-
Jviews to President Kennedy' P demo
and has urged that_ intelli- Multilateral action will not using troops te,'itave Tiulo- struetion that nuclear war
gence and "operations" re- be possible end. mere eco- China, is not ready to write would bring. Neither, it is
4sponsibilities, be separated in nomic assistance will never off Laos. said' does he feel that Soviet
the C e n t r a l Intelligence work in Latin America, be But he reportedly .'views Premier Nikita S, Kbrushchev'
Agency feels. that situation;aa hopoleaa .ttp. would make a major move
Nixon believes strongly, its Nixon thinks the ,President less there 3s a cq np lett eltlf't against Berlin.
can be stated, that in the showed great courage . and of direction..He 1AT&id'tq,be
face of Communist subversion leadership in deciding that thinking of the kind of de-
this Government must find the United States should give velopment that 'saved South
,the legal devices-as it ' did aid to the rebel invasion of Viet-Nam-American support
in the case of Korea-to em-,Cuba, which failed last week. for a strong leader like Viet-
ploy its power on the side of He is pictured as uncritical Nam's Ngo Diem. '
freedom. !of that decision and has tried Nixon is said tp feel that
Nixon is said to feel that,to assure Mr. Kennedy that1Mr. Kennedy, while under=
one such legal device might he need not be inhibited in the same wait-and-see pres-1
be to assert this country's future policy moves by any, sures that plagued the Eisen-1
right, under an existing pact, fear of political criticism. ,hower Administration on Cuba,j
to halt Red aggression by be-' Nixon was one of the-first I will not -be frightened away
coming a "trustee" of free-'in the Eisenhower Adminis- from taking a firm stand.
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