Clay Shaw at a General Cabell Meeting
From: jpshinley@my-deja.com
Date: Mon, 30 August 1999 08:04 AM EDT
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New Orleans Times-Picayune May 10, 1961 S1-P3
CIA Must Keep Quiet -- Cabell
The Central Intelligence Agency, because of the sensitive nature
of its activities, must maintain a policy of silence at all times
in regard to its knowledge of the participation in United States
affairs, the deputy director of the CIA said in New Orleans Tuesday
[9th] night.
Air Force Gen. C. P. Cabell said that he therefore could not
"rise to the defense of the CIA" in regard to its reported
connection with the recent Cuban invasion, a connection which has
come under repeated fire from many quarters.
Gen. Cabell arrived in New Orleans late Tuesday to address the
International Relations Association of New Orleans, previously called
the Foreign Policy Association of New Orleans. At a meeting held at the
Sheraton-Charles Hotel, he discussed "Communism and Science." He left
shortly after the meeting to return to Washington.
Interviewed at International House shortly before his talk, Gen.
Cabell refused to comment on the Cuban invasion and the CIA's role
in the affair.
"This is a sensitive subject, certainly, and one which should
be discussed only by President Kennedy and Secretary of State Rusk,"
he said. "The Central Intelligence Agency is not a policy making
agency; we merely serve the policy makers."
Therefore, it would make matters only worse, he continued, if
officials of the CIA and other like agencies continued to make
comments concerning the Cuban situation.
"It could very possibly occur that these comments would differ in
meaning and suggestion from those made by the only two people who
should be commenting on it - the President and the Secretary of State,"
he said.
Discussing the scientific accomplishments of the Communists in his
talk before the International Relations Association, Gen. Cabell said
that "there is no reason at all to belittle or magnify the
accomplishments of scientists living under Communistic regimes, and
there is no reason to draw invidious comparisons between our efforts
and their efforts.
"What we must realize is that the accomplishments are real," he
continued, "and that their successes so far have led them to place
even more emphasis on scientific research and development in what
Khruschev calls 'the splendid years under Communism."
Cabell said that science is the servant of Communism and that,
stripped of all its usual verbiage, "Communism is a future social
order being constructed out of present-day socialism through the
application of science.
"We must recognize the vast scientific resources of the Soviet
Union and the growing strength of China are being integrated with
their political ambitions to reconstruct society in the Communist
countries and eventually in the entire world."
He concluded that "we should stand forewarned that every resource
available to being used by the Communists to advance their political
ends."
The International Relations Association changed its name from the
Foreign Policy Association Tuesday night because, according to its
president, C. C. Walther, the group is no longer affiliated with
its originator, the Foreign Policy Association of New York.
[end of article]
Jerry Shinley
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Denis Morissette
> I have seen a CIA report about a meeting where General Cabell was a
> speaker which Clay attended. Do you know if Shaw was a speaker? Do you
> know if both men talked? Thanks.
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