JFK WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN CIA ASSASSINATION PLOTS:
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:29 pm
POINT: 2. JFK WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN CIA ASSASSINATION PLOTS:
"The president's files would reveal that Jack and Bobby Kennedy were more than merely informed about the CIA'S assassination plotting against Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba: they were its strongest advocates. The necessity of Castro's death became a presidential obsession after the disasterous failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961, and remained an obsession to the end. White House files also dealt with three foreign leaders who were murdered during Kennedy's thousand days in the presidency - Patrice Lumumba, of the Congo; Rafael Trujillo, of the Dominican Republic; and Ngo Dinh Diem, of South Vietnam. Jack Kennedy knew of and endorsed the CIA'S assassination plotting against Lumumba and Trujillo before his inauguration on January 20, 1961. He was much more active in the fall of 1963, when a brutal coup d'etat in Saigon resulted in Diem's murder. Two months before the coup, Kennedy summoned air force general Edward G. Lansdale, a former CIA operative who had been involved in the administration's assassinations plotting against Fidel Castro, and asked whether he would return to Saigon and help if the president decided he had to 'get rid' of Diem. 'Mr. President,' Lansdale responded, 'I couldn't do that.' The plot went forward. None of this would be revealed until this book, and none of it was shared with Lyndon Johnson, then the vice president."
The Dark Side of Camelot, Seymour M. Hersh, p. 3.
COMMENTARY: JFK and RFK were proponents of CIA Assasinations, and coup d'etat's when it favored their hidden agendas. Why is it so surprising when the same was done to them, then ?
Respectfully,
BB.
"The president's files would reveal that Jack and Bobby Kennedy were more than merely informed about the CIA'S assassination plotting against Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba: they were its strongest advocates. The necessity of Castro's death became a presidential obsession after the disasterous failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961, and remained an obsession to the end. White House files also dealt with three foreign leaders who were murdered during Kennedy's thousand days in the presidency - Patrice Lumumba, of the Congo; Rafael Trujillo, of the Dominican Republic; and Ngo Dinh Diem, of South Vietnam. Jack Kennedy knew of and endorsed the CIA'S assassination plotting against Lumumba and Trujillo before his inauguration on January 20, 1961. He was much more active in the fall of 1963, when a brutal coup d'etat in Saigon resulted in Diem's murder. Two months before the coup, Kennedy summoned air force general Edward G. Lansdale, a former CIA operative who had been involved in the administration's assassinations plotting against Fidel Castro, and asked whether he would return to Saigon and help if the president decided he had to 'get rid' of Diem. 'Mr. President,' Lansdale responded, 'I couldn't do that.' The plot went forward. None of this would be revealed until this book, and none of it was shared with Lyndon Johnson, then the vice president."
The Dark Side of Camelot, Seymour M. Hersh, p. 3.
COMMENTARY: JFK and RFK were proponents of CIA Assasinations, and coup d'etat's when it favored their hidden agendas. Why is it so surprising when the same was done to them, then ?
Respectfully,
BB.