Jim DIEugenio at VMI on 9/2

[Paul Rigby]

This is a transcript of a talk I did via Skype at VMI on September 2nd. I was between Bill Davy and John Newman.

Its a condensation of what I have been talking about for the last four years: How JFK's foreign policy led to his murder, and also probably Dag Hammarksjold's. At the end I explain one of the reasons I think Allen Dulles was involved.

https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kenne...mi-seminar

Excellent, not least your continuing insistence upon the continuity of Kennedy's foreign policy from Senate to White House.

One minor, but recurring quibble - you keep characterising Arthur Krock's column, The Intra-Administration War in South Vietnam, as an attack on the Agency. Nothing could be further from the truth: It was, instead, very obviously an extended attack on Starnes and his sources - among them, though unstated by Krock, members of the US press corps who had been present for the thwarted CIA putsch against Diem in late August '63 - which concluded with a call for an end to such leaks and the "disorderly" (read "constitutional") government they allegedly engendered.

DCI McCone was so outraged by the Starnes prophecy (of an imminent domestic CIA coup) that he summoned Scripps-Howards' editor-in-chief, Walker Stone, to a meeting in a Washington hotel, where he demanded Starnes' dismissal. Krock, by contrast, likely got an exclusive, an outsize cigar and a decent meal from Langley as a reward for his rejoinder. Failing to distinguish between the two is a poor reward for Starnes' courage and Stone's splendid reply to McCone: "All you're telling me, John, is that Dick got it right."