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Just a few more sickeningly self-righteous cloak-and-dagger capers like the Great Cuban Invasion by our completely irresponsible CIA and we will have lost the second biggest continent's good will even faster than we lost Asia...
...listening posts capable of tuning in on the actual countdown, long-range radar tracking stations that plotted the orbit of the satellite and could even estimate its size and weight, electronic eavesdropping that may have overheard Yuri's radio reports to earth, and, finally, traditional cloak-and-dagger espionage inside the Soviet Union...
...rush to select a scapegoat, most newsmen nominated the Central Intelligence Agency. "America would be safer," said the Raleigh News and Observer, if CIA Chief Allen Dulles "were allowed to depart, taking his frayed cloak and blunt dagger with him into private life." Chicago's American indicted the CIA for "a gigantic goof," and even Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt suggested mildly that the CIA "was not very well informed...
Much of Dulles' operation is routine and even tedious. A large part of intelligence gathering consists of reading technical publications, monitoring radar and radio, interviewing travelers and refugees. With this material, and from military intelligence as well as from CIA's own cloak-and-dagger specialists, the agency works up its evaluations, on which the National Security Council bases its decisions...
...Fish Is Red. The operation started with a surprise attack by B-26 light bombers on Cuban airports where Russian MIG-15s were reportedly being uncrated and assembled. In the best cloak and dagger tradition, to lend credence to a cover story that the bombings were by pilots defecting from Castro's air force, a few .30-cal. bullets were fired into an old Cuban B26. A pilot took off in the crate and landed it at Miami with an engine needlessly feathered and a cock-and-bull story that he had attacked the airfields. A reporter noted that...