Whatever
one thinks of theories about who killed John F Kennedy, this article
from CIA insider Ray McGovern offers a fascinating account of a
forgotten history - how a novice Kennedy found himself in a dangerous turf war with the CIA over the Bay of Pigs.
The details of an op-ed by former President Harry Truman, briefly
published and then suppressed after JFK's assassination and hinting at
the rogue direction the CIA was heading in, is especially interesting.
The CIA's head at the time of the Bay of Pigs, Allen
Dulles, whom Kennedy sacked, was appointed to the Warren Commission that
investigated his assassination.
As McGovern relates, the real
story of last week's release of the JFK files concerns what was not
released - secrets that are now 54 years old.
Is there any relevance to re-examining those old events, or is it just more fuel for so-called "conspiracy theorists"?
McGovern thinks getting to the facts is essential - if only to
understand how, in the post-Kennedy environment, no president has again
dared to take on the might of a CIA-led Deep State.
Ray McGovern:
Many Americans cling to a comforting conviction that the Deep State is a
fiction, at least in a “democracy” like the United States. References
to the enduring powers of the security agencies and other key
bureaucracies have been essentially banned by the mainstream media,
which many other suspicious Americans have come to see as just one more
appendage of the Deep State.
But occasionally the reality of how
power works pokes through in some unguarded remark by a Washington
insider, someone like Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, the Senate
Minority Leader with 36 years of experience in Congress. As Senate
Minority Leader, he also is an ex officio member of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, which is supposed to oversee the intelligence
agencies.
During a Jan. 3, 2017 interview with MSNBC’S Rachel
Maddow, Schumer told Maddow nonchalantly about the dangers awaiting
President-elect Donald Trump if he kept on “taking on the intelligence
community.” She and Schumer were discussing Trump’s sharp tweeting
regarding U.S. intelligence and evidence of “Russian hacking” (which
both Schumer and Maddow treat as flat fact).
Schumer said: “Let
me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways
from Sunday at getting back at you. So even for a practical, supposedly
hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.”
President John F. Kennedy in the motorcade through Dallas shortly before
his assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. (Photo credit: Walt Cisco, Dallas
Morning News)
