Chapter 14: JFK Makes His Move to Control the CIA

 
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Ike’s hopes for détente were crushed by the CIA’s U-2 spy-plane incident of May 1, 1960, as described earlier.

 
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The reader should note the similarity of this stage of the process to that which the Reagan administration promoted on behalf of the Contras in Central America during the eighties.

 
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For full details on the Bay of Pigs fiasco, see earlier chapters.

 
4

New York Times, April 25, 1966.

 
5

One of Robert F Kennedy’s sons is named Maxwell Taylor Kennedy.

 
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OSS, the forerunner of the CIA .

 
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This is a secret and secure means of direct communication. The chief agent in a country would have a direct line to CIA headquarters, bypassing every other channel of the U.S. government.