Ike’s hopes for détente were crushed by the CIA’s U-2 spy-plane incident of May 1, 1960, as described earlier.
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.
For full details on the Bay of Pigs fiasco, see earlier chapters.
New York Times, April 25, 1966.
One of Robert F Kennedy’s sons is named Maxwell Taylor Kennedy.
OSS, the forerunner of the CIA .
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.