CIA releases papers that set off scandal

AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/26/07 | Michael J. Sniffen - ap

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

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Oh man, I hope you got his permission before posting this.

You do NOT want to mess with a ex-CIA guy!!! ;)

[boop]

Actually I didn’t know about the plot in August of ‘60 to take out Castro. That would be under Eisenhower.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Agree. Hayden is turning out to be a wimp and that is very bad. Same for the caving in by some at NSA.

The National Security Archives was started by a a bunch of far-leftists and communist sympathizers. They are not friends of national security. Their goals are no honorable.

Re CIA and US surveillance. When I was an undercover operative/informant in 1968-1969, our “peace” groups had contacts with Soviet front operations including the World Peace Council and its British branch (Peggy Duff), and the Japanese Gensuiyken (Congress against the A & H Bombs).

The CIA had every right to follow these KGB-funded and aided groups in the US, though technically the FBI tookover surveillance once they landed in the U.S.

Other so-called “peace activists” had extensive contacts with Soviet KGB, Cuban DGI/KGB, Czech STB, and other Soviet block intellligence groups/fronts, as well as with Hanoi, Red China, and No. Korea.

This is what the CIA was doing in terms of “surveillance” of U.S. citizens (i.e. traitors).

More on this in the future.

[Cicero]

Very interesting. Thanks.

[BwanaNdege]

This goes back to a WW II era “turf war” between J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI (domestic operations) vs. “Wild Bill” Donovan’s OSS (foreign operations). The OSS became the CIA.

The Castro operations were clearly foreign. US anti-war groups with possible Soviet support were a gray area. Kind of like “legal” US residents or citizens who are al Qaeda terrorists. Who does the investigation, FBI or CIA. This is one situation that does not need to be lost in a bureaucratic turf war.

[Bigg Red]

More on this in the future.

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[mission9]

This adds a little new information on the Kennedy Assassination. Careful, Vincent Buligosi (and a few Oswald done it types around here) will insult the messenger. The deathbed confession of Howard E. Hunt indicates to me that either a CIA or CIA auxiliary did the deed. It is typical that covert teams may not know the actual mission, or be given misinformation about the mission. My examination of Oswald’s movements and diaries does not lead me to the conclusion that he was a meglomanicial, lone, crazed gunman. He was an intelligence agent under deep cover.

[rbosque]

They should have offered more mullah for Fidel’s head.

[shalom aleichem]

At page 27 of the 702 page document on Family Jewels it says that during surveillance of Columnist Jack Anderson they also kept track of his “leg men” who were Britt Hume, Leslie Whitten and Joseph Spear. LOL

[AU72]

The timing of this is supicious.

[wordsofearnest]

bump

[MattinNJ]

The Bay of Pigs would have worked but JFK refused to provide aircover from the carriers waiting off shore. Castro, a known coward, held his forces back until it was quite obvious the Americans weren't coming. Cuba always needed a Pinochet or a Franco to liberate them. He died on the beach due to JFK's treachery.

We just saw a repeat with Chavez. He up and left the country for a few days. When it was obvious we weren't going to help the people who overthrew him, he came back...and the rest is history.