23-12-2015, 02:17 AM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:BTW, the other part of the book that I found very important and fascinating was the attempted overthrow of DeGaulle which the CIA went along with and then lied about. This happened about the same time as Bay of Pigs.
Combined with that and Dulles' deciding to kill Lumumba before JFK was inaugurated and then hide that from him, I mean Kennedy had no choice but to fire him. OR the guy would have subverted his whole foreign policy agenda for four years.
And how about the DeGaulle interview when he returned from Kennedy's funeral? He had the whole thing nailed in 72 hours. Down to Oswald was supposed to be killed, but they had to bring in Ruby as the clean up guy.
Nice one.
And Castro had it pretty well figured out by the day after it happened, when
he gave his long analytical speech about the right-wingers in the US probably
being responsible for the JFK hit. Castro and de Gaulle both had been the targets
of attempted assassinations, and they knew how all that worked.