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(footnote continued) Stevenson nor I have been in it enough to make a professional judgment on the U.N. aspects. Compared to the full staff proc- ess that I think has been going on for months on the Congo, I wonder whether a fuller discussion on Cuba might not produce a better policy with which we could live longer. 100/ In transmitting a copy of his memorandum to Stevenson on the same date that it was prepared for the SecState, Cleveland called Stevenson's attention to the paragraph cited above. 101/ Mr. Cleveland also has offered a somewhat different version of who told what to Stevenson concerning the D-2 strike than that specified above in Mr. Pedersen's letter. In an address to a CIA audience in the Spring of 1977, Cleveland stated, among other things that: At the UN General Assembly, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson was defending U.S. non- involvement in the refugee raids on Cuba, as they were being called. He asked Wash- ington for the true story [of the D-2 raid], as many of you will recall, and the CIA pro- vided the State Department with a false cover story, which Stevenson used his global credibility to trumpet as the truth. The cover blew off in less than 24 hours. Stevenson was a kindly and mild-mannered man. I've never seen anybody so ~ore in my life. And it is to his eternal credit, as far as I am concerned, that he didn't get sore at me even though I was the person who handed him the paper with instructions to trumpet it. 102/ The writer has not been able to resolve the ques- tion of whether the "cover story" re the D-2 strike went to Stevenson via the Sisco-Pedersen, Sisco-Stevenson route or whether it went from Cleveland to Stevenson as noted above. T. Walter Johnson, Stevenson's official (footnote continued on following page) - 261 -