01-11-2013, 12:25 AM
Don:
I am beginning to come around to your way of thinking here (and Drago's).
This stems back to Scott's ancient--and perhaps diliapidated--old Phase One Phase two paradigm.
I am beginning to think that this was fundamentally wrong. And for more than one reason.
First, in all of the material I have read in the immediate hours and days following the murder, I can detect no real effort to get an invasion of Cuba going. I mean where was the Northwoods provocation? Would that not have been the perfect thing to do here in conjunction with the JFK murder?
Second, the attempts to link Oswald with the Cuban G2 were so amateurish as to be amateur night in nature. Not one of them was ever taken seriously.
Third, where was the renewed effort afterward to revive MONGOOSE?
See, as I denote in my book Destiny Betrayed, Kennedy had essentially abandoned MONGOOSE after the Misisle Crisis. In fact, the CIA told LBJ in the summer of 1964, that it was not worth sustaining anymore and recommended it be abandoned.
This is one reason that, at the Wecht Conference, i did a one hour talk about JFK's foreign policy without ever dealing with Cuba at all! And only tangentially dealing with Vietnam. Since I have come to look at Vietnam and Cuba not in isolation, or even as paired, but as extensions of a Gestalt foreign policy view that had already been formed prior to Kennedy becoming president. And if one understands that, then everything that followed becomes of a piece with everything else.
Debra Conway wants me to repeat that talk in Dallas and I think I will.
I am beginning to come around to your way of thinking here (and Drago's).
This stems back to Scott's ancient--and perhaps diliapidated--old Phase One Phase two paradigm.
I am beginning to think that this was fundamentally wrong. And for more than one reason.
First, in all of the material I have read in the immediate hours and days following the murder, I can detect no real effort to get an invasion of Cuba going. I mean where was the Northwoods provocation? Would that not have been the perfect thing to do here in conjunction with the JFK murder?
Second, the attempts to link Oswald with the Cuban G2 were so amateurish as to be amateur night in nature. Not one of them was ever taken seriously.
Third, where was the renewed effort afterward to revive MONGOOSE?
See, as I denote in my book Destiny Betrayed, Kennedy had essentially abandoned MONGOOSE after the Misisle Crisis. In fact, the CIA told LBJ in the summer of 1964, that it was not worth sustaining anymore and recommended it be abandoned.
This is one reason that, at the Wecht Conference, i did a one hour talk about JFK's foreign policy without ever dealing with Cuba at all! And only tangentially dealing with Vietnam. Since I have come to look at Vietnam and Cuba not in isolation, or even as paired, but as extensions of a Gestalt foreign policy view that had already been formed prior to Kennedy becoming president. And if one understands that, then everything that followed becomes of a piece with everything else.
Debra Conway wants me to repeat that talk in Dallas and I think I will.