14-02-2018, 07:07 AM
About RFK:
In "Meet the CIA: Guns, Drugs and Money", Counterpunch January 26, 2018, bylined Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn:
Robert Kennedy, for one, didn't share Bissell's squeamishness. Kennedy, who was obsessed with the elimination of Castro, told Allen Dulles that he didn't care if the Agency employed the Mob for the hit as long as they kept him fully briefed. Robert Kennedy would go to his grave defending the Agency.* "What you're not aware of is what role the CIA plays in the government," RFK told Jack Newfield of the Village Voice shortly before his assassination. "During the 1950s, for example, many of the liberals who were forced out of other departments found a sanctuary, an enclave, in the CIA. So some of the best people in Washington, and around the country, began to collect there. One result of that was the CIA developed a very healthy view of Communism, especially compared to State and some other departments. They were very sympathetic, for example, to nationalist, and even socialist governments and movements. And I think now the CIA is becoming much more realistic, and critical, about the war, than other departments, or even the people in the White House. So it is not so black and white as you make."
*WTF!!?? This paragraph is not footnoted or referenced by the way.
About JFK:
"In The Shadows of The American Century", Alfred W. McCoy, (2017), page 83:
At the peak of the cold war, President Eisenhower avoided conventional combat yet authorized 170 covert CIA operations in 48 nations while President Kennedy approved 163 more during his three years in office.*
*This is referenced to Legacy of Ashes, page 321
I never heard of either of these. Any comments?
In "Meet the CIA: Guns, Drugs and Money", Counterpunch January 26, 2018, bylined Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn:
Robert Kennedy, for one, didn't share Bissell's squeamishness. Kennedy, who was obsessed with the elimination of Castro, told Allen Dulles that he didn't care if the Agency employed the Mob for the hit as long as they kept him fully briefed. Robert Kennedy would go to his grave defending the Agency.* "What you're not aware of is what role the CIA plays in the government," RFK told Jack Newfield of the Village Voice shortly before his assassination. "During the 1950s, for example, many of the liberals who were forced out of other departments found a sanctuary, an enclave, in the CIA. So some of the best people in Washington, and around the country, began to collect there. One result of that was the CIA developed a very healthy view of Communism, especially compared to State and some other departments. They were very sympathetic, for example, to nationalist, and even socialist governments and movements. And I think now the CIA is becoming much more realistic, and critical, about the war, than other departments, or even the people in the White House. So it is not so black and white as you make."
*WTF!!?? This paragraph is not footnoted or referenced by the way.
About JFK:
"In The Shadows of The American Century", Alfred W. McCoy, (2017), page 83:
At the peak of the cold war, President Eisenhower avoided conventional combat yet authorized 170 covert CIA operations in 48 nations while President Kennedy approved 163 more during his three years in office.*
*This is referenced to Legacy of Ashes, page 321
I never heard of either of these. Any comments?