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Re: The New and Improved Joey? thread
Reply #7558 - Jul 1st, 2012 at 10:46pm
Joey wrote on Jul 1 st, 2012 at 6:38pm: " After his brother's defeat at the Bay of Pigs , Robert Kennedy's determination to , in Bowles' phrase , " get Castro " was so intense that one of his key advisors on Cuba said he seemed to regard the failed invasion as " an insult which needed to be redressed rather quickly . " " It was almost as simple as goddammit , we lost the first round , let's win the second , " McGeorge Bundy was to say . " We were hysterical about Castro , " Robert McNamara says . Setting up a special CIA operation , later code - named " Mongoose , " Bobby kept pushing the CIA . Over Thanksgiving weekend in 1961 , he repeatedly telephoned CIA Director of Operations Richard Bissell at home to tell him to " get off his ass " on Cuba . Following Bissell's replacement by Richard Helms , Kennedy made it clear to Helms , as he records , that Castro was " the top priority of the United States Government -- all else is secondary -- no time , effort , money or manpowered is to be spared . " That directive was followed , with the CIA ceaselessly trying to set up raids by Cuban exiles , blow up bridges and factories . There were efforts of another type as well . The CIA would carry out eight separate assassination attempts on Castro's life , continuing into 1965 . Did Robert Kennedy authorize them , or know about them ? " The Kennedy's made clear their desire to ' get rid ' of Castro , " Evan Thomas wrote . But did they authorize his assassination ? " The truth is unknowable , " Thomas concludes .  JOEY, WHY DOES CARO TAKE 10 YEARS TO PARAPHRASE A BOOK THATS BEEN OUT FOR YEARS? THE TRUTHS ARE BURIED WITH THIS MAN. 
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