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Trump was about to release all the files and then the CIA recommended he not do that. The CIA also wrote this nice memo for Trump: > "I am ordering today that
by staunch 9y ago
Trump was about to release all the files and then the CIA recommended he not do that.
The CIA also wrote this nice memo for Trump:
> "I am ordering today that the veil finally be lifted" on the records, the memo said. "At the same time, executive departments and agencies have proposed to me that certain information should continue to be redacted because of national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns. I have no choice -- today -- but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our nation's security."
You've gotta love the "I have no choice" wording...
From the best book on this topic, JFK and the Unspeakable:
> The book's central thesis is that Kennedy was a cold warrior who turned to peace-making, and that as a result he was killed by his own security apparatus
> The book highlights the Bay of Pigs Invasion as the Central Intelligence Agency's attempt to entrap Kennedy into a full-scale US invasion of Cuba. Citing Daniel Schorr's conclusion that "In effect, President Kennedy was the target of a CIA covert operation that collapsed when the invasion collapsed", the book argues that the result of this operation was Kennedy's avowed intention "to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds."
> The forced resignation of CIA Director Allen Dulles and several deputies served notice that this statement might be followed through. The book describes Kennedy's conflict with the military, including over the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (ratified by the Senate in September 1963), and a back-channel to Fidel Castro in September 1963, via William Atwood, aimed at normalising relations, and National Security Action Memorandum 263 (beginning withdrawal from Vietnam).
> The book also cites an April 1962 confrontation with the US steel industry, led by U.S. Steel, which together with five other steel companies declared a price increase shortly after an agreement had been brokered to avoid them, in order to control inflation. The Kennedy administration raided corporate offices, issued subpoenas, and tasked the Defense Department with overseas marketing of its steel. Shortly after the steel industry backed down, Henry Luce's Fortune published an editorial, headlined "Steel: The Ides of April", stating that the price rise had been conceived in political terms as a means to either damage the President's credibility, or to unite the business world against him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_and_the_Unspeakable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_and_the_Unspeakable
Curtis LeMay called JFK an appeaser to his face, and accused him of endangering America's safety. https://jfk14thday.com/bad-appeasement-munich/ https://jfk14thday.com/bad-appeasement-munich/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay#Cuban_Missile_Crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay#Cuban_Missile_Cri...
- Veratyr 9y ago> because of national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns Well that certainly makes it sound like something important is hidden.
- positr0n 9y agoI took this to mean they investigation was so thorough it uncovered and documented lots of potentially embarrassing stuff, but none of that was relevant to who shot Kennedy. Not that they figured out who shot (or set up Oswald to shoot) Kennedy, but they're covering it up because it is embarrassing.
- Veratyr 9y agoI understand what you're saying and while those things might be able to cause tension, I don't think that anything "embarrassing" could be a risk to national security.