01-12-2012, 01:44 AM
I will take these in order:
1. Why did Ike appoint Dulles as DCI?
Dulles was part of the Correa-Jackson-Dulles commission to redraft a plan to reorganzie the CIA. This was not an official plan, just a suggestion from the power elite. But DCI Smith read it and seemed to like it. So he made Dulles Deputy DCI. Smith then got ill in 1952. John Foster Dulles suggested to Eisenhower that Smith be moved over to a less strenuous job at State and that Allen become DCI. That is what I know about it.
2. Anthony, that is a really fine synopsis. I really felt the first four chapters were needed in order to understand who Kennedy really was and how he worked, sometimes actually around his cabinet.
Also thanks for recognizing how I decided to track the characters in time sequence to actually set up the conspiracy as it happened.
I was really determined to show the details of the apparatus set up to wreck Garrison, and how this proceeded even beyond the Shaw trial, to actually try and incinerate his evidence.
The only key point you did not mention is how LBJ then reversed Kennedy's foreign policy initiatives and put them back to where they were under the Dulles brothers. Killing hundreds of thousands of people in the process.
I am glad you think its worth rereading. There aren't that many books like that in the canon.
3. Phil: I don't know what the pending upon Russell's second visit means. Are you reading Russell's second book now, and mine is on hold?
OK. Will wait for your observations then.
The Kindle version is out. And as I said, I will be glad to do a moderated discussion of the book when enough people have read it.
Thanks all.
1. Why did Ike appoint Dulles as DCI?
Dulles was part of the Correa-Jackson-Dulles commission to redraft a plan to reorganzie the CIA. This was not an official plan, just a suggestion from the power elite. But DCI Smith read it and seemed to like it. So he made Dulles Deputy DCI. Smith then got ill in 1952. John Foster Dulles suggested to Eisenhower that Smith be moved over to a less strenuous job at State and that Allen become DCI. That is what I know about it.
2. Anthony, that is a really fine synopsis. I really felt the first four chapters were needed in order to understand who Kennedy really was and how he worked, sometimes actually around his cabinet.
Also thanks for recognizing how I decided to track the characters in time sequence to actually set up the conspiracy as it happened.
I was really determined to show the details of the apparatus set up to wreck Garrison, and how this proceeded even beyond the Shaw trial, to actually try and incinerate his evidence.
The only key point you did not mention is how LBJ then reversed Kennedy's foreign policy initiatives and put them back to where they were under the Dulles brothers. Killing hundreds of thousands of people in the process.
I am glad you think its worth rereading. There aren't that many books like that in the canon.
3. Phil: I don't know what the pending upon Russell's second visit means. Are you reading Russell's second book now, and mine is on hold?
OK. Will wait for your observations then.
The Kindle version is out. And as I said, I will be glad to do a moderated discussion of the book when enough people have read it.
Thanks all.