WHAT DO WE DO NOW?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770048-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: April 26, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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MARION, IND.
LEADER-TRIBUNE
M. 9,133
? APR 28 NO
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What Do We, Do Now?..,
The United States has learned
another bitter lesson the hard way!
Just a few short days ago the .
hopes of the free world soared high
as anti-Castro forces stormed ashore .
in Cu deliver the :oountiy from
the iron yo e of Communism. ? ,
But the hopes vanished w it hi
hours. Again, we had. underestimated
the Communists.
Although there Were, all 'pas o;
denials at
dent our. our. lovernmen
nvasion
e ad been led to beliekie. thou-
sands of Cubans would rOolt insid4
the countbr, aid the tirielv.as ripePto
Oilrreports were drastically
..r,..??...poomposoommomemomomemt,,-,
wrong.;
-1t-made guns, tanks and .planes
were thrown into the fray ?and the
beachhead battles .quickly won: Yet
this did not 'doom the invasion.
It was Castro's master plan to
roundup all Cubans who might trigger
revolt which broke the back of the in-
vasion. Within hours after the first
I attack, police had arrested 50,000 per-
strike for success.
sons and herded thin into concentra-
tion camps.
The hand of Ruisia?is plainly vis-
ye in this maneuver.
Castro is being 'guided and dictat-
ed to by.Soviet experts in. the art of
subversive Warfare:.
The masters of tl'eceit did their
work well.
r
Think back, just.a moment, to the
days of Batista. He built- a strorig;
police state. But it, was not strong
enough to block the CaStro-led rebell
from seizing power because the Cu-
bans revolted to aid Castro.:
This time there was no r e kro It.
Castro and his Russian henchmen,took
the steps necessary to prevent re-
currence of Batista's downfall;,,,
So what do we do now?
Our Cen tivy
gob e . was a:cost y- fiasco', which
has held i the United Statet. up to
- ?
scorn n the es inuer;=?of the
woild
As we'.said;'ilie UniterStates has
learned agnother bitter lessoh. lyarrowg,
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/05/07: CIA-RDP67-00318R000100770048-2