04-04-2012, 10:40 AM
Greg, I think you've demonstrated McGeorge Bundy bookended the Kennedy administration: it was Bundy who cancelled the critical B-26 raid which would have destroyed the three T-33s on the ground, allowing the Brigade to request assistance from the beach.
Again, it was Bundy who authored the draft NSAM 273 with the telling fourth clause regarding recriminations and unityguilty knowledge.
What did Kennedy do after the sabotage of the Bay of Pigsa double double-cross: Bundy sabotaged the raid, but the raid was designed to mark Kennedy out as "that damned traitor who ought to be shot"the passion ignited by the perceived betrayal was the lit fusehe fired Dulles, but allowed him to resign.
Which he did in November when Mongoose coalesced the anti-Castro efforts creating the mob contract on Castro (Helms-Harvey-Roselli), when Dulles summoned Hunt to aid in memoirs, and the odd plot.
Of course Kennedy was at odds with the chiefs. He'd pushed the "missile gap" to get elected, though it was lopsided in America's favor. Yet he was not for the hot war, never wanted to continue what the French had failed in doing.
www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay_-_Did_the_US_Military_Plan_a_Nuclear_First_Strike_for_1963
McGeorge's brother William married Acheson's daughter Mary. And Gibson says it was Acheson who conjured the Commission. Did he do it with Dulles at his elbow.
It was business as well as personal. The Dulles brothers, Lansdale, Lodge, and more were Regime Change R Us.
And surprise, surprise for the chiefs when in November of 1965 they ventured to the White House to ask LBJ's permission to mine Haiphong and bomb Hanoi.
http://hnn.us/articles/34024.html
Yet March 1968 would demonstrate LBJ bowing to the real power.
No, not Nixon, only a temporary figure, who in turn would be undone by Helm's adding Hunt to the Watergate mission.
The next year he would write Give Us This Day.
In three decades he would exit the stage, accusing LBJ with his dying breath.
Which, with all the others, was expressing a limited hangout, a plausible denial.
The buck never stops at Langley.
Again, it was Bundy who authored the draft NSAM 273 with the telling fourth clause regarding recriminations and unityguilty knowledge.
What did Kennedy do after the sabotage of the Bay of Pigsa double double-cross: Bundy sabotaged the raid, but the raid was designed to mark Kennedy out as "that damned traitor who ought to be shot"the passion ignited by the perceived betrayal was the lit fusehe fired Dulles, but allowed him to resign.
Which he did in November when Mongoose coalesced the anti-Castro efforts creating the mob contract on Castro (Helms-Harvey-Roselli), when Dulles summoned Hunt to aid in memoirs, and the odd plot.
Of course Kennedy was at odds with the chiefs. He'd pushed the "missile gap" to get elected, though it was lopsided in America's favor. Yet he was not for the hot war, never wanted to continue what the French had failed in doing.
www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay_-_Did_the_US_Military_Plan_a_Nuclear_First_Strike_for_1963
McGeorge's brother William married Acheson's daughter Mary. And Gibson says it was Acheson who conjured the Commission. Did he do it with Dulles at his elbow.
It was business as well as personal. The Dulles brothers, Lansdale, Lodge, and more were Regime Change R Us.
And surprise, surprise for the chiefs when in November of 1965 they ventured to the White House to ask LBJ's permission to mine Haiphong and bomb Hanoi.
http://hnn.us/articles/34024.html
Yet March 1968 would demonstrate LBJ bowing to the real power.
No, not Nixon, only a temporary figure, who in turn would be undone by Helm's adding Hunt to the Watergate mission.
The next year he would write Give Us This Day.
In three decades he would exit the stage, accusing LBJ with his dying breath.
Which, with all the others, was expressing a limited hangout, a plausible denial.
The buck never stops at Langley.