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 | | From: | Erik Van Lint | | Subject: | Re: > > > > photo of erik van lint alias erickvon lintherzog photo of erik van lint alias nadejdazaitzeva photo of erik van lint alias erickvon lindt hout photo of erik van lint alias sergejsmith photo of erik van lint alias eric vanlindt herzog | | Date: | Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:57:35 GMT |
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 | and Castro). Even Republican icon Dwight Eisenhower was implicated: The chain of events revealed by the documents and testimony is strong enough to permit a reasonable inference that the plot to assassinate Lumumba was authorized by President Eisenhower.
Nixon was shown to be obsessed with getting rid of the Allende regime in Chile. And since he had already been disgraced with Watergate, his defenders, like Bill Safire of the New York Times, felt that this was piling on. As we shall see, Safire struck back through Judith Exner.
But the plots against Castro took center stage. They seemed full of sensational, fantastic revelations that seemed right out of a James Bond movie: poison pills, exploding sea shells, contaminated diving suits etc. But no matter how hard they tried, the media moguls (New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times) could not tie the Kennedys to them. This didn't seem fair in light of all the mud heaped on Eisenhower, Dulles and the Watergated Nixon. Unfortunately, not even the CIA's 1967 Inspector General's report, commissioned by Richard Helms for LBJ, implicated the Kennedys.
No Authorization
The Inspector General's Report (which is quite thorough and methodical), and the Church Committee's report dealing with assassinations (entitled Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders) are both quite clear on this point. For instance, when the former report was analyzing the published details of a Drew Pearson-Jack Anderson 1967 leak about the Castro plots, it labeled the Pearson-Anderson insinuation about Robert Kennedy's "approval" of the plots as "Not true." It later goes on to say that the role played by Robert Kennedy in Pearson's story is "a garbled account." What had happened was that through the FBI's discovery of a wiretapping favor done for Maheu's contact in the plots (Chicago mobster Sam Giancana) Hoover had learned of the CIA-Mob link and forwarded his knowledge to Ro
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