THE NEW YORK TIMES DIDN'T MIND COVERING UP FOR KENNEDY BY SUPPRESSING THE NEWS!!!
While Frankel tries to give the impression that direct US involvement with the counter-revolution had come to an end after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, ex-classified documents contradict this. In Edward Lansdale's "Review of Operation Mongoose," dated July 25, 1962, we discover that the CIA was directly involved:
Frankel's portrait of John F. Kennedy is that of a chastised youth who has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar:
Perhaps Frankel's version of the Cuban Missile Crisis would be more credible if he had not admitted that the Times had participated in a cover-up at the time. Once Kennedy had decided to blockade Cuba, he needed to make sure that the Soviets were kept in the dark about his plans. This entailed lining up the NY Times (and the Washington Post) in a vow of secrecy. According to Frankel, who was listening to Kennedy and James Reston over an extension phone, Kennedy said, "If you reveal my plan, or print that we discovered their missiles in Cuba, Khrushchev could beat us to the draw." At first, Reston demurred: "You're asking us to suppress the news?" but soon came around to understanding Kennedy's "reasonable request" -- the news was indeed suppressed.
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Alex Jones, former press reporter for The New York Times, is director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is co-author, with Susan E. Tifft, of The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times.
Harvard media analyst Alex Jones
Max Frankel, his tennis partner Henry Kissinger
Max Frankel is a German Jew of Polish ancestry who arrived in the U.S. in 1940. In his 1999 memoir, The Times of My Life and My Life with the Times, he discussed the nature of his Judaism, his strong Zionist and “Jewish tribal” identity and, finally, his role as an outspoken “liberal” managing editor of the NYT.
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