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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (259365)	5/29/2002 11:36:09 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

re:"As far as "not unsolicited"? Dubious at best...JFK wanted to dismantle the deceptive intel services..." I think most of what you believe about JFK is fantasy. Above all else, he was a Cold Warrior. He was critical of the U.S. actions in China, and the fall of China to the Communists. Senator Joseph McCarthy was a good friend of the Kennedy family (and Godfather to his niece) - I read that JFK's refusal to attack McCarthy was a major reason he did not win the nomination for Vice President in 1956. A major platform in his Presidential Campaign was the "missile" gap, and it was his Administration that really lit up the "Arms Race". To the day he died, he was defending U.S intervention in Viet Nam. "Operation Northwoods" was a document written by the Defense Department in March of 1962 in response to a request by the Chief of Operations, Cuba Project (AKA Operation Mongoose - I believe). The objective of the paper was to find (list) a "pretext" that would give justification of U.S. military intervention of Cuba. Operation Mongoose from everything that I found, was run directly by the Administration (specifically, the brother of the President). Operation Mongoose was still active in October of 1962, when the AG complained about the Operation's lack of progress and action. This was just as the Cuban Missile Crisis broke. The fact that Cuba had nuclear weapons, made the Northwoods memo moot. yale.edu