28-01-2013, 10:28 PM
Gordon Gray Wrote:Having failed to take the bate twice before, with the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis, it's hard to beleve anyone would expect him to do so because someone the CIA says is connected to Castro took a shot at him.
Unless, of course, Plan A called for immediate public release of the "Castro was behind this" story and/or RFK was in on it.
Gordon Gray Wrote:Also given their general distrust of the intelligence community at that time, I doubt either RFK or JFK would knowingly go along with such a plan.
Beginner's mistake, I'm afraid. Both JFK and RFK trusted certain intelligence and military officers -- and, for that matter, certain anti-Castro Cubans operating in the U.S. You must understand that governments and their agencies are not ideologically monolithic in nature.
You should also consider the notion that RFK provided protection, in the form of plausible deniability, for his brother.
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If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
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-- Graham Greene