27-10-2008, 12:01 AM
That eternal question: Do you think Watergate was directly related to the cover up of President Kennedy's murder? Yes or No.
Certainly if Nixon Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman is to be believed it was related. I don't know if he is to be believed.
http://www.watergate.info/tapes/72-06-23...-gun.shtml
"Nixon: When you get in these people when you...get these people in, say: "Look, the problem is that this will open the whole, the whole Bay of Pigs thing..."
"In his memoir, The Ends of Power (1978), Haldeman claims that all the references in the tapes to "The Bay of Pigs thing", were coded references by Nixon:
Please (please) feel free to elaborate, and or recommend related books.
Thanks.
Certainly if Nixon Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman is to be believed it was related. I don't know if he is to be believed.
http://www.watergate.info/tapes/72-06-23...-gun.shtml
"Nixon: When you get in these people when you...get these people in, say: "Look, the problem is that this will open the whole, the whole Bay of Pigs thing..."
"In his memoir, The Ends of Power (1978), Haldeman claims that all the references in the tapes to "The Bay of Pigs thing", were coded references by Nixon:
In those Nixon references to the Bay of Pigs [in the White House tapes] he [Nixon] was actually referring to the Kennedy assassination...After Kennedy was killed, the CIA launched a fantastic cover-up...The CIA literally erased any connection between Kennedy's assassination and the CIA...in fact, Counter Intelligence Chief James Angleton of the CIA called Bill Sullivan of the FBI (Number Three man under J. Edgar Hoover, who later died of a gunshot would) and rehearsed the questions and answers they would give to the Warren Commission investigators."
http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.bac...dhunt.htmlPlease (please) feel free to elaborate, and or recommend related books.
Thanks.