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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1962 Q Mai Stevenson Caught in Middle by Leak of NSA Secrets Editor's note: An article in lhii week's Saturday Evening Pott report! on the secret strategy talks held in Washington on the So viet missile build-up in Cuba. The article indicat ed there was a difference ol opinion on how to deal with the situation between UN Ambassador Adlai Ste venson and President Ken nedy's other advisers. The article resulted in statements being issued by Stevenson and the While House. Stevenson said the article contained inaccura cies. The White House said Stevenson "strongly sup ported" Kennedy's block ade decision. In the following dis patch, Merriman Smith, dean of the White House correspondents, delineates the complex situation and the possible effects on Ste venson's future role in the administration. By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter Washington - OJPli - Advice according to Ambassador Ad lai E. Stevenson, is of little use "if chilled by fear of disclosure and misrepresenta tion." America's chief represent alive in the United Natirns should know whereof he speaks. He is now caught in one of the more curious chills to fall in some time upon his area of government, the incredibly delicate area of foreign policy and diplomacy. President Kennedy, it can be stated wiih authority, wants Stevenson to remain in his post at the United Nations. It can be stated with equal authority that Stevenson likes his job and wants to keep it. In fact, the President short ly may make some sort of gesture to re-emphasize pub licly that Stevenson has his confidence. This could come In a speech, press conference or public appearance in which Hie UN ambassador might fig tire conveniently or natural ly. If not his advice, Steven son's stature in the United Nations was somewhat chill ed today by a highly circui tous, even wandering chain of events which brought head shaking puzzlement to cer tain sections of government. Why puzzlement' Why the necessity of considering what Kennedy can do to improve the Stevenson image? Close Friend of President The Saturday Evening Post printed nn article this week I pi irA i j ItlMnsii A rsfii nfrt.ilrl t 1 n i ' A' m liin ' t iHrrAr'ii;ii SAYS STORY INACCURATE UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson takes angry issue with a published report that lie preferred "political negotiation" to a blockade to deal with the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba. Stevenson called the Saturday Evening Post story "inaccurate and grossly misrepresenting my views". (UPI) ends at Newport, R.I., and Glen Ora, the Kennedy place at Middlcburg, Va. Also, Ken nedy recently gave Alsop an exclusive interview for his magazine. Stevenson's position as re ported by Alsop and Bartlctt was espoused by the UN am bassador during highly se cret deliberations of the Na tional Security Council Ex ecutive Committee prior to Kennedy's decision to throw a light naval blockade around Cuba. The President announc ed his decision on Oct. 22. Stevenson was in Washington constantly from Oct. It) to Oct. 22, In consultation with the President and his top ad visers. Once he decision was to the effect that Stevenson I made, Stevenson made lorccnu presentation ox u preferred "political negotla tion" to a blockade for deal ing with the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba. Hie article was written by Stewart Alsop, Washington editor for tne magazine, and Charles Bartlett, syndicated columnist and such a close friend of the President that he has been invited to week in the United Nations. The White House Monclsy com mended him for having "bril liantly developed" Jie U.S. position at the United Nations during the taut days of the Cuban crisis. The White House did not deny, however, that Steven son at one time favored "po litical negotiation" as a means of getting the missiles out of Cuba instead of the near-war tactic of blockading all possible weapons ship ments bound for Cuba. For that matter, Stevenson did not deny this specific point, although he did say the article was inaccurate in reporting that he had propos ed trading U. S. bases abroad for Soviet missile withdrawal from Cuba. "The facts arc," St-'venson said here laic Monday, "that I never proposed to trade our bases abroad to get th, So viets out of their missile base in Cuba; and that I favored the blockade on the shipment of more Soviet arms to Cuba. I was also emphatically in favor of using the peace-keep-ing machinery of the Organ ization of American Slates and the Uniled Nations." The ambassador also said: "This was (lie policy sup ported by most of the Presi dent's advisers and a ' ptcd by the President. It has work ed fo successfully, as we all know, that the nuclear men ace from Cuba has been elim inated and war avoided at the same lime. "President Kennedy has had and will continue to have my advice with candor and with confidence in his deter mination to reach decisions by free discussion among his advisers. Advice is of little use if it is chilled by fear of disclosures and misrepresentation." Speculation About Future From these semantical ed- dies and statements worded with legalistic care specula tion developed about Steven son's future as a player on the Kennedy varsity. Alsop and Bartlett, in ad dition to being close to Ken. nedy, are among the nation's thoroughly professional, top flight reporters. They had to have been well aware of the implications in their article: That Stevenson had recom mended an approach ' . the Cuban crisis considerably less stern and muscular than the blockade finally decided upon by the President. Following this line, it would then appear to world diplomats, particu larly Russians and Cubans, that Stevenson had to follow a policy which he, himself, had opposed in its formative stages. Another serious Implication was that one or more partici pants in the theoretically locked-tiglu secret proceed ings of the National Security council had decided unilater ally to abandon the Chief Executive's orders about se crecy. This obvious leaky condi tion of so-called NSC secrets caused furrowed brows and a few shudders in government circles. White House officials were emphatic in saying that nei ther Bartletc nor Alsop talk ed with the President in pre paring the article. Here again was a matter of semantics and liming. The President ob viously granted the co-authors no interview or discussed the subject pointedly with them. Bartlett, however, did spend a Virginia week end with the President about a week after the missile crisis was disclos ed to the public. Deduce Kennedy Connection Valid or invalid, this was reason enough for many sea soned Washington figures to deduce that there had to be some connection between Kennedy and the article. But such reasoning missed an im portant point: Alsop and Bart lett are on friendly terms with a number of other high officials, including Stevenson, himself, and his chief spokes man at the United Nations, Clayton Fritchey. Reporters of the Alsop Barl lett caliber have a great many lop government connections. They could, without great dif ficulty, arrange private audi ences with other participants in NSC proceedings, ranging ir remain wig- fmmmmm nlOP. tt iiili.',.. 4m 3ml BOMBERS REMOVED The Defense De partment has announced that Russia has begun shipping its IL28 bombers home from Cuba. The Pentagon released this picture showing the Soviet ship Ckhotsk proceeding off the northern coast of Cuba with three fuselages visible on her deck. (UPI) from the Persident's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk to some of the specialists in foreign pol icy, defense and intelligence matters whose names seldom figure in published articles. This made it plainly evident that at a time when much of the government was clamping down on information concern ing Cuba, an official either participant in or privy to some of the government's highest secrets had decided to talk about at least one of them and for publication. Those familiar witn such in cidents - and they happen from time to time in any administration-felt with some certainty that upon learning of the article, the President inquired and discovered its source. What does he do about the man or men who talked and made it appear there was a serious policy split within his most trusted ranks? Very little for the moment, or risk creating a greater public up roar than has developed at this point. His primary problem was measurement of possible dam age to Stevenson's stature in the United Nations. If the ar ticle and its proliferating ef fects produce additional em barrassment for Stevenson at the United Nations; if it leads to any widespread impression among diplomats that Steven son has less than unqualified support by the President, some action by either Ken nedy or his ambassador would seem indicated. What that action will be was a matter which even more knowledgeable admin istration officials did not MMmOT-WUMSJM'SIIMBl ' . ---. s-'V.wr. 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