WHY DIDN'T JFK ACT EARLIER?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700180003-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 31, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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Despite the show'of strength which has forced the
.Soviet TTninn 1..
fy VIRGINIA I-'REWETT
Why Didn't
JFK Act'
karlier?
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arms within 90 n-;iles of our shores. P ant deadly
muntst country
succeeded in ge ting under'oiTr guard t
1
a
pons s to had furnished
to Cuba, the fa. t remains that a con
41O111guuC Una remove the
offensive tnissila~ lulse and we
t
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o / Matters Lr ;,. It is
the failw e? itself And this
-.d_ also came ,ue
por'tanl ?.
n e%% and To ac?t ,tons are purely t~ 'ensive
or failed to act b,='-ik is.~ it riid me sures.' "
not kn
in protecting I,,? I nTt,,d government will go 't ' believ.
>tat's. b'hether '1 Arlmin!s- ing that the military ynstalla-
trrrtic,n Ft
that the Pentag n trelie ves base has been Installed. 'tear
same with the lie it bombers this port."
:shipped to Cuba, c' tiic deal
a siunning blow If the Ameri- 'heir September 21 report
+'ar] nation--withoit Russia's says: "One of the European
iiltink, a finger c:?xrel,t to pull Ambassadors in Havana re-
tie iris'ger by reran IN, control. eently reported to_his respec-
ttAR - i~I'ih;,S7'ii-N - tive country 'that if the crtun-
tries of this hemisphere do
i'tic? Administtte ion's coin. not take military action
icnttor that our V, rt tg presi- against Castro immediately,
dent c?,-reived Ic rc+' proof or at least before the next six
about the missile- ?nly on months, Cuba will possess
T1ct. ii; will becotrr a national Russian missile bases armed
rt'i`-",.tntn a', glav' 'hat dill with atomic rid nuclear
n ,~re,lulins' his c '-ir,t1 { weapons capabii' of destl'Oy-
~iprv. 17, 1` 61 n-A ., "rippnn ing in a few mint tes the most
strategic zones Li the United
-,IaIe, Bt-sides, it is known
:art Tire eonstructtlt3 will be
'fhe deadly Atat is aid carried out secretl'y,, 7lth this,
ic,ous planes in C' r1 r 1,roV?e end in view--tha-t 1~jtile the!
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11 our author. e hate work continues, theel merlc?an
'~llerl
We have na.+ stu'',?ied tw
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stunning reverses qi' i'uba l'
less than a year and, riff And
not for lick of w;,rt rn_'
In this K titer s i 11 is a
memorandum p t~ there
t ,s,'ks befor'e ]961'x' ,n~.'asion.
Written by Dr. Ail 'Ii.i Sar-
chez Arango wire, Al. IT
signed from the U. - -torment
e'uban Kc~'olutiunal Council,
it detailed thin org4 ir.?atiotial
and other- reasons; 1`+'t y the
['IA's c+,ndtict of tl'lfI 'i a oon
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