Axxman300
Philosopher
The creator of CIA, Truman, wrote an editorial a month after Kennedy's assassination saying the agency had gotten out of control and gone way beyond its original purpose as an intelligence-gathering organization and become a political policy enforcement organ it was never intended to be. It had become an organization not controlled by democracy. What message was Truman trying to send 1 month after Kennedy's assassination?
So a letter written in December, 1963 is relevant to anything in 2001 how?
Best shown in Douglass' book 'JFK And The Unspeakable'. It was this unprecedented effort towards detente with the communists that got JFK killed in Dallas in a coup d'etat.
Nope.
The Vietnam thing has always been the weakest of the JFK conspiro-dreck. JFK was responsible for the largest piece-time buildup of the US Military after Reagan. He and his brother were actively working to murder Castro, and the Berlin Wall had gone up under his watch. Kennedy wasn't going to make nice with Communists anywhere.
The fact is that in November 1963 JFK's odds of re-election were slim. Hearings had begun covering his affair with a communist spy that was due to hit the papers in January 1964. Everyone in D.C. was already writing him off as a 1-term guy.
I personally know a Laotian who was directly involved in all that. His father was Laotian military who advised CIA where to drop their bombs. He was a boy who saw people on bicycles vaporized to white ash by American bombs.
Neat. Gotta love Willie Pete.
Also, you either vaporize someone, or you bake them to ashes. Not both.
I know a 1963 VietNam vet whose missions he can't talk about. He was permanently shaken by those they left behind in the jungle.
Cool.
I knew a guy named Dave Maurer, he served with MACV-SOG. He never told me jack. (See, real name)