Word: mccone
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Appearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone did little to clear up the confusion. Between 1,000 and 1,500 Latin Americans last year traveled to Cuba for sabotage and guerrilla training, and many more have gone in the first two months of this year, said McCone. The largest contingents, he reported, came from Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador. Argentina and Bolivia. "One group of trainees was asked to mark bridges and other similar demolition targets on detailed maps of their country...
...McCone insisted that the CIA has no evidence to indicate that Cuba is shipping any great quantity of Soviet arms to other Latin American nations. "But." he said darkly, "we have no reason to believe that they will not or cannot do so, when so doing serves their stated purposes of creating uprisings in Latin America." What does the Administration plan to do if that happens? Well, that seems to be another secret...
According to Dr. H. Bentley Glass of the Atomic Energy Commission's Advisory Committee on Biology and Medicine, if the U.S. wishes to survive it will need shelters for birds, animals, and plants, as well as for people. After the battle, according to John A. McCone, an estimated 40 crops will have to be raised and discarded before the radiation in the soil can be brought within "acceptable limits." But before the 41st harvest, most people will die of starvation or radiation poisoning. The alternative, according to the federal government, is to scrape off the topsoil, with large earth moving...
...answered. New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating vowed to eat his hat if his charges were not right. And it was to force such critics as Keating to a diet of fried fedora that President Kennedy last week ordered Defense Secretary McNamara and CIA Chief John McCone to an unprecedented public report on the state of Cuba's military strength. Never before had a nation displayed in such detail its secrets of intelligence-gathering over an unfriendly country...
...best information we have," said Kennedy, only one Soviet ship that might have carried military cargo has arrived in Cuba since then, and "there is no evidence that this ship carried any offensive weapons." But after a briefing by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and CIA Chief John A. McCone, Mississippi Democrat John Stennis announced that his Senate Preparedness Subcommittee will investigate the "buildup of military might in Cuba...