Posted on 09/07/2023 9:31:53 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Why would the CIA and the Deep State kill one of their own and they’re best chance to advance their agenda in JFK? And what evidence is there of this?
Wow, good article.
More detail is supplied in this Wikipedia article on Richard Helms in the “Helms dismissed” section:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Helms
Excerpts relevant to this topic:
“(November 20, 1972) Helms was informed by Nixon that his services in the new administration would not be required”
However Helms was a career Federal employee and so could not be removed from the government. Watch what happens next:
“Helms also suggested that since he could retire when he turned 60, he might voluntarily do so at the end of March. So it was agreed, apparently. But instead the event came without warning as Helms was abruptly dismissed when James R. Schlesinger was named the new DCI on February 2, 1973.[311]
The timing caught me by surprise. I had barely enough time to get my things out of the office and to assemble as many colleagues of all ranks as possible for a farewell. ...
A few days later, I encountered Haldeman. “What happened to our understanding that my exit would be postponed for a few weeks?” I asked. “Oh, I guess we forgot,” he said with the faint trace of a smile.”
Remember what Chuckie said—the intelligence folks have so many ways to get back at you....
Sometimes in DC it can get personal...
If you think the Bolsheviks were in charge of our “democracy” back when the CIA killed Kennedy, you have no concept of its present-day power after the Obama years.
This is why the system is trying so desperately to get rid of former President Trump. He represents We, the People, against the established Washington political class, or as the Washington Post says, “the Washington “aristocracy.”
Thanks to the revelations concerning Felt, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s role in Nixon’s downfall is better understood. The Central Intelligence Agency’s role, however, remains mysterious. It was only one of several US intelligence agencies spying on Nixon and his officials, but Langley’s role in Watergate set it apart. As Hougan shows, it infiltrated and sabotaged “The Plumbers,” the covert unit responsible for the Watergate burglaries, run by several figures in Nixon’s re-election campaign committee with connections to the White House. It was the CIA that set in motion the events that forced Nixon from the presidency.
The CIA, the military, and other agencies spied on the White House because Nixon the president acted differently than Nixon the politician. As congressman, senator, and vice president, Nixon was a dyed-in-the-wool Cold Warrior. While this position earned him the ire of media and academic elites, especially when he exposed the treason of their darling Alger Hiss, anti-Communism was at the time a fairly conventional position within military and intelligence circles. In backing Nixon in 1968, his supporters in the military and intelligence communities thought they were getting a hawk who would stop trying to micromanage the Vietnam War and national security from the White House.
Nixon had other ideas.
Sometime in the mid-to-late-’60s, he had become a heretical anti-Communist. While Nixon wanted the United States to remain vigilant against the spread of Communism, in a series of 1967 articles, he recognized the limits of American power and wanted to avoid conflicts that weren’t in the national interest. Rejecting Manichean assumptions in foreign policy as a recipe for escalation and war, Nixon called for stronger economic and political ties with the Soviet Union and China and a legitimate acknowledgement of their interests as the preconditions for hard-nosed but effective diplomacy. Moreover, he opposed granting the intelligence and military bureaucracies more autonomy. Nixon had grown skeptical of their conformism, their inefficiencies and errors, and the way they shielded themselves from accountability and control by the executive branch.
To that end, he planned a grand course-correction to the way the US government operated.
Our elected officials have almost no power anymore. They are puppets of Permanent Washington.
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But....but...Trump is always picking the wrong people or everything would be different.(sarcasm)
Actually, I have long wondered how Nixon was so thoroughly demonized after being elected on a platform of ending the vietnam conflict. This explains a great many things.
They wanted Nixon’s scalp ever since HUAC.
Does "jumping the shark" even mean anything anymore?
Oh, you mean all that conspiracy type stuff like deep state and the corrupt at the highest levels of government rigging elections and trying to criminally undermine, compromise and overthrow Trump?
Got it.
👍🏼 👍🏼 dragnet!
See (longtime) tagline.
bombing in the north and following them into Cambodia.
The Nixon takedown was as dirty as it gets.
What I find pathetic about it, is all the Republicans who didn’t have a problem with the Watergate take out.
They remind me of the kind of Republican that gets giddy about Trump’s lawfare cases.
Nixon, not the Deep State, chose Ford as his vice president. And it was not the Deep State but Barry Goldwater--Mr. Conservative himself--who finally convinced Nixon to resign when he said that he would vote to convict him at the impending impeachment trial.
Watergate was a Media/Deep State Coup.
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The CIA and their Mockingbird Press set the whole thing up and Nixon fell into the coverup trap. The Agency needs to be ground into a thousand pieces and the chaff thrown into the wind.
Is Musk an Obama supporter?
Nixon never claimed to have a “secret plan” to end the Vietnam War, but that urban legend lives on.
Nixon sucked. He and his Kissinger gang did nothing but kiss commie ass. Gave us the EPA. His removal got us Reagan. So the CIA failed too.
I was the biggest Nixon hater ever created.
But, I have to confess, it took Crossfire Hurricane, following on the disclosure that the “source” of the WaPo Nixon stories was the deputy director of the FBI, to snap Watergate into focus for me, for the first time.
520 EV, 61% of the popular vote. Peace with China, stop the war, freeze prices to help labor, liberalize money creation to help capital, law and order in the streets - he was Trump ahead of his time.
The Deep State hated him. I can hear Andrew McCabe’s predecessor saying, “First we f*** Agnew, then we f*** Nixon”.
There was no Breitbart, no Twitter, no FR back then. IF ABCNBCCBSNPR and the NYT and WaPo coordinated their stories (and, knowing what you know now, is there any doubt?) - no one would ever discover what really happened. And the GOP folding? Coal to Newcastle.
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