Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When questioned, Albert Persons simply pointed to two articles he had just written for Chicago's American. In them, Persons said that he had been one of 18 American airmen hired to "replace inexperienced Cuban air crews for the all-important initial air strikes against Cuba." The recruiters, according to the Persons account, "represented themselves as being with a company under contract to one of the Cuban exile groups . . . We all believed then, and believe now, that the men who hired us were representatives of the U.S. Government...
...Confusing? Of course. But no more confusing than the rest of the continuing Cuba controversy. In what may rank as the silliest statement made so far about that controversy, Texas' Democratic Representative George Mahon, chairman of the House Military Appropriations Subcommittee, called on the Administration, Senators and Congressmen to stop answering questions about Cuba. "There has been talk of an intelligence gap," said Mahon. "There is an intelligence gap. The gap is in the intelligence of those who are daily revealing the secrets of the intelligence operations of the U.S. Government." It was "outrageous," he said. "Critics have made...
Presumably, Mahon would have withheld from the nation even such sparse information about Cuba as was officially forthcoming last week. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, for one, reported that enough Soviet shipping is on the way to Cuba to remove "several thousand" Russians. That, of course, will leave several thousand others still in Cuba. The activities of those Russians, both military and civilian, were the highlight last week of a notable CBS-TV "Eye Witness" program...
...while, according to CIA Director John McCone, Cuba-trained Communist sabotage and guerrilla experts are flooding the rest of Latin America. This is precisely the sort of activity that President Kennedy, only a few months ago, said that the U.S. would not tolerate. But what does the U.S. plan to do now? Apparently, very little. Said Kennedy at his press conference, in answer to a question about hemispheric subversion from Cuba: "There has been an Organization of American States committee which has reported on the need for control. Now it is up to the Latin American countries...
...nine deployed Polaris submarines, the Ethan Allen and five others were on patrol last week. That two-thirds ratio is standard-although during the height of the Cuba crisis, all nine were ordered to sea. The location of the subs on patrol is known only to a small circle of top military and Government leaders. All that most of the crewmen and officers know is that they are somewhere within their missiles' 1,500-mile range of Soviet targets...