Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
JFK Assassination: Richard Belzer: Hit List
Mae
Brussell’s article: The Last Words of Lee Harvey Oswald: http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Last%20Words%20of%20Lee%20Oswald.html
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Allen Dulles: Harvard Law School Forum: December 13, 1963
Harvard
Law School Forum
From a tape recording
beginning at about 47:35: “There never has been a political action, or an action
of a political nature – Bay of Pigs, U-2, uh, Vietnam and the security services
– there never has been an operation of that kind that had not been approved from
the very beginning, at its very inception at the “highest” level of government
and approved. Now when there’s a failure, uh, if something blows up – whether
it’s a plane or a Bay of Pigs, you’re going to have criticism. And the CIA then
can’t run out and say, ‘Now look here, we were backed on this by …’ [Audience
laughter] Maybe I should stop? I’m going to very soon. The CIA can’t get up and
say we didn’t have anything to do with this and so forth and so on; just keep
their mouth shut. In both the Bay of Pigs situation and the U-2 situation the
chief executive assumed responsibility – not because I asked him to … not at
all. But because he felt that not to assume responsibility for these particular
actions – and I think he was right – we both were right – would have meant
irresponsibility in government. If I was going to be allowed to sit around there
and say ‘I ought to be allowed to sit around there and send airplanes over
Russia without policy approval, I ought to be shot … or certainly dismissed.’
[Audience laughter] … or mount a Bay of Pigs operation without approval, the
same thing should have happened to me. Well, it just didn’t work that
way.”
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