MAXWELL TAYLOR NAMED KENNEDY AIDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700480016-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 28, 1961
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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BBI3 5 CHIC O INTERNATIONAL APFAIRS
28 June 1961
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Head of the U.S. American Legion William Burke said yesterday that the
United States should immediately refortify its West'Berlin garrison and
increase the draft, so as to have "proper military manpower." It should
resume nuclear testing immediately to prepare the United States with the
"nuclear weapons needed" and expand conventional warfare equipment to
its fullest modern adaptations.
In spite of the protest of the German Democratic Republic, the U.S.
military authorities are preparing new provocative military exercises in
West Berlin. An American news agency report from West Berlin on
25 June said: "A strengthened American garrison today prepared. new
combat exercises designed to show the Russians that the United States will
take a firm stand on Berlin." It continued: "The garrison was
strengthened by a modernization program."
Another American news agency report from Paris said that NATO's Supreme
Allied Headquarters is considering "military terms" to deal with the
West Berlin issue. It stated that "military precautions are generally
expected." They would include "combined maneuvers" and "increasing the
conventional forces of the Allies in Europe."
In an editorial 25 June, the New York TIMES advocated that the West a must
"mobilize" to meet the Soviet Union. It said that it is a matter of
"greatest urgency" that "the free world"' mobilize "politically, militarily,
economically, and spiritually," and that "in this effort, leade.rQhip
inevitably falls on the United States." The editorial was of the opinion
that many specific steps should be taken to strengthen the cold war and
prepare for a hot war. Among those it listed was "movilizing civilian
opinion," bringing the armed forces '.'to a?..maximum state of readiness, and
reii#orcing the Seventh Army in Germany."
Peking NCNA in English to Asia 1517 GNW 27 June 1961--W
(Text) Peking, 27 June--The White House announced yesterday that
Maxwell Taylor is to be named as President Kennedy's military repre-
sentative beginning 1 July, according to a Washington report. The
former commander of the U.S. troops which invaded Korea will serve as
"an adviser and staff officer" of the President, particularly in the
military and intelligence fields.
Taylor has all along advocated enhancing U.S. capability for "limited war."
It is said that his viewpoint has won the approval of the President.
Following the fiasco of the U.S. mercenariest invasion of Cuba, Kennedy
ordered Taylor to take charge of investigating U.S. capability for
"paramilitary activities" and to "review" the work of stheC~nral
Intelli e, Agency. .. xf_
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BBB 6 c ieOM I:NTERI TIONAL AFFAIRS
28 June 1961
Peking Domestic Service.i4 Mandarin 1210 GNW 27 June 1961--W
(Summary) Stevenson, who went to Latin America as a special envoy
of U.S. President Kennedy, is the chief U.S. delegate to the
United Nations and a slave who earnestly serves the U.S. mona~olistic
capitalist clique.
Now 60 years old, he was torn into a rich family in Los Angelis. His
grandfather was a former 'vice president of the United States, and his
father was governor of linois. He served in many important posts of
the U.S. Government. He imself was a former governor of Illinois and
was twice unsuccessful De ocratic candidate for U.S. president.
On foreign policy, he is n favor of arms expansion and war preparations
and is hostile to China and the Soviet Union, clamoring for as increase
in NATO's strength and injthe U.S. capacity for limited wars. Hefavors
the two-Chinas policy.
On U.S, policy toward Latin America, he has advocated the use of the U.S.
dollar as a tool for aggr ssion and encouraged the setting up`of a
Western Hemisphere militaiy alliance to protect U.S. interest3 in
Latin America. Stevensonlis a vigorous supporter and salesmen of
Kennedy's "Alliance for Progress" program.
ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS PROd
Peking Domestic Service Mandarin 1210 G1T 27 June 1961--W
(Summary) The so-called "Alliance for Progress" program is a new trick
used by Kennedy to enslav the Latin American people. In his first
State of the Union messag, in January, Kennedy proposed the establishment
of a new alliance for pro1ress in Latin America, and in March he again
spoke of the program at a :reception for a group of diplomats And
parliamentary members frorJ.Latin American countries.
The present upsurge of the Latin American national democratic movement,
which centers on the Cub revolution, has caused great fear [n U.S.
ruling circles. The purpcse of the program is to use the U.S. dollar
as a tool to strengthen political and economic control and pe:letration of
Latin American countries, and to get Latin American countries to join
the United States in interfering in Cuban affairs and thus ob,3truct the
entire Latin American national democratic movement. Kennedy :revealed
this criminal design in hi speeches concerning this program.'
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