JFK describes "The Unthinkable" -- "The High Cabal"

[Seamus Coogan]

Greg, your mention again of Bundy's sinister permeation led me to locate:


It is also clear, though seldom mentioned in the literature, that the order to cancel the air strikes, after Kennedy had formally approved them, came not from Kennedy himself but from McGeorge Bundy. Taylor relates the sequence of events: At about 9:30 P.M. on 16 April, Mr. McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President, telephoned General C.P. Cabell of CIA to inform him that the dawn airstrikes the following morning should not be launched until they could be conducted from a strip within the beachhead. Mr. Bundy indicated that any further consultation with regard to this matter should be with the Secretary ofState (Memo. 1, para. 43).


The Bay of Pigs Revisited by Michael D. Morrissey
http://history.eserver.org/bay-of-pigs.txt


So here is Bundy torpedoing the CIA op and Kennedy in one fell swoop.

At the end it was quite unexpected to find a Daniel Patrick Moynihan observation:


An American Original

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/featu...ers-201011

"IT'S OVER"
November 22, 1963

A memorandum dictated by Moynihan to himself, describing his chaotic, terrible day after news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy reached Washington. William Walton was an artist and Kennedy-family friend. Charles Horsky was a prominent lawyer and White House adviser on national capital affairs. Moynihan at the time was an assistant secretary of labor in the Kennedy administration.

Bill Walton, Charlie Horsky and I were just finishing lunch at Walton's housein the grandest good mood with Walton leaving for the Russian tour that afternoonI was talking about Brasilia and the phone rang. Oh no! Killed! No! Horsky's office had phoned for him to return. We rushed upstairs. Television had some of it but the commercials continued. Bill began sobbing. Out of control. Horsky in a rage. Clint (?)Jackie's agent had said the President is dead. Walton knew this meant it was so. He dressed more or less and we went directly to the White House from Georgetown. On the way the radio reported that Albert Thomas had said he might be living.

We went directly to the President's office which was torn apart with new carpets being put down in his office and the cabinet room. As if a new President were to take office. No one about save Chuck Daly. McGeorge Bundy appeared. Icy. Ralph Dungan came in smoking a pipe, quizzical, as if unconcerned. Then Sorensen. The three together in the door of the hallway that leads to the Cabinet room area. Dead silent. Someone said "It's over."

This on the heels of your (Greg's) naming Bundy as the likely author of NSAM 273.

Onward into the quagmire with the best and the brightest.

There was a mocking response to my observations on lancer, and surprise, surprise, the mocker was a nutter.

Alice, we're surely near tea time.

I think I'm with you Phil it is very murky.