01-07-2018, 03:18 AM
Per Evan Thomas, RFK biographer in Robert Kennedy: His Life and Times at page 149: "Kennedy just pressed on. On January 19, he gave a pep talk to various agency representatives to the new Cuba project, code-named Mongoose, that left no room for doubt about his desires."
Since Mongoose was well-known for the Exploding Sea Shell plan to kill Castro and the Poisoned Diving suit plan to do the same, it's hard to see how RFK did not know of plans to kill Castro. That was the whole idea of Mongoose. A mongoose can kill a snake. Get it?
To say that the Kennedys were too nice to order murders is far from the reality. Unfortunately, the Kennedys were the heirs to the tradition of Hitler, Franco, Joseph McCarthy and other "Christian anti-Communists", also John Foster Dulles and J Edgar Hoover.
JPK ordered a lobotomy on his daughter for political purposes. Rose Kennedy thought God had killed her daughter in a plane crash as "divine retribution" for "religious" reasons.
The close cultural kin of the Kennedys were Whitey Bulger and his associates and former "Mob Attorney" Representative John W. McCormack of Boston.
I personally don't think that the Kennedy family kicked the habit of borderline criminal ruthlessness until the 70's in the person of Edward M. Kennedy. Teddy finally got it right, and the nation should be grateful. You can see in his memoir True Compass what a great guy EMK truly was.
But of course, JFK and RFK also did some unique and unequaled great things for the country with which we all are familiar.
But angels?
James Lateer
Since Mongoose was well-known for the Exploding Sea Shell plan to kill Castro and the Poisoned Diving suit plan to do the same, it's hard to see how RFK did not know of plans to kill Castro. That was the whole idea of Mongoose. A mongoose can kill a snake. Get it?
To say that the Kennedys were too nice to order murders is far from the reality. Unfortunately, the Kennedys were the heirs to the tradition of Hitler, Franco, Joseph McCarthy and other "Christian anti-Communists", also John Foster Dulles and J Edgar Hoover.
JPK ordered a lobotomy on his daughter for political purposes. Rose Kennedy thought God had killed her daughter in a plane crash as "divine retribution" for "religious" reasons.
The close cultural kin of the Kennedys were Whitey Bulger and his associates and former "Mob Attorney" Representative John W. McCormack of Boston.
I personally don't think that the Kennedy family kicked the habit of borderline criminal ruthlessness until the 70's in the person of Edward M. Kennedy. Teddy finally got it right, and the nation should be grateful. You can see in his memoir True Compass what a great guy EMK truly was.
But of course, JFK and RFK also did some unique and unequaled great things for the country with which we all are familiar.
But angels?
James Lateer