The Invasion of Cuba: Never the Intention of JFK Hit Sponsors

[Paul Rigby]

Paul, very interesting view of the New Left. Just wondering how you see CHAOS fitting into other New Left ops, it that indeed is what they were.

Here's the rub, Nat: The Agency could remove leaders and change governments, both at home and abroad, yet couldn't - so the conventional narrative has it - prevent Ramparts from publishing an expose about spook funding of US student orgs. Plausible, no?

And what did all that penetration and alleged subversion of, among other things, the alternative press accomplish? It certainly wasn't the closure of Ramparts!

In other words, the standard account of Operation MHCHAOS, its purposes and significance, is at best inadequate, or, infinitely more likely, a red herring.

Where to begin in our re-evaluation? Well, I'd start with Angleton, and his decision to approve Ober's appointment, and then permit him to set up a unit outside the Angletonian shop. Something amiss, here, surely, when the great control freak and empire builder passes on a chance to indulge both deeply engrained characteristics?

So Ober is CI, but not Angletonian CI: when is counter-intelligence not counter-intelligence?

Paul