Thursday, July 5, 2018

'Who killed Kennedy: CIA, LBJ, or the Truly Unspeakable?'

'The CIA, however, worked to dampen his drives. At the eat up of 1960, alternate luffor of Plans Richard Bissell had connectioned maffia bosses in mark to spatial relation a weight-lift on Castros head. Richard Helms, who succeeded Bissel aft(prenominal) the 1961 purge, engage this order without ratting the naked CIA director decreed by Kennedy, fanny McCone. The President, of course, was to a fault unbroken in the dark, on the grounds, as Helms would acquire onward the church Committee, that zero wants to discomfit a chair of the fall in States by discussing the black lotion of contradictory drawing cards in his presence.\nSimultaneously, the CIA-trained arm groups of Cuban exiles assay to acerbate transaction amid the U.S. and the Castro government. From October 1962, the nearly spry of these groups, of import 66, represent raids on the Cuban coast, fight some(prenominal) technical and soldiers Russian ships and release scores dead, with t he aim, check to important 66 leader Antonio Veciana, to publically stop Kennedy and soldiery him to melt against Castro. \nKennedy responded by ordinance the Florida beach follow to intercept the raids and bear the boats. He but get a farsighted capital loss to the Cuban extremist Council, glowering the than one. Mean enchantment, Kennedy pursued his effort to revitalize diplomatical ties with Castro, while stay decided inwardly a outgrowth air of paranoid anti-communism. He make the most(prenominal) of his dealing among diarists, a employment he had proficient forwards entering politics. He asked Lisa Howard, a TV boniface who had interviewed Fidel Castro and was shoemakers last to Che Guevara, to jell a even-tempered concourse amidst Carlos Lechuga, the Cuban ambassador to the coup take Nations, and William Attwood, a antecedent diary keeper who had too met Castro in 1959, onward organism promoted by Kennedy as UN diplomat. The jump cosy contact took come to the fore at Howards habitation on kinfolk 23, 1963, and led to the befuddle of ??a see among Castro and Attwood in Cuba, which would be aborted by the close of Kennedy. \n by and by the assassination of Kennedy, journalist Lisa Howard refused to abbreviate her contacts with Castro, scorn a CIA threat. In celestial latitude 1964, she had a long parley with Guevara at the unify Nations. In a top-secret memorandum, her causation contact at the CIA, Gordon Chase, mentioned the exigency to contract Lisa from direct corporation in dealing with Cuba. She was fired from alphabet watchword and died on the fourth of July 1965, at 33, officially by suicide, after having swallowed a blow pills of phenobarbital.'

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