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My understanding of JFK was he was a cold warrior with a particular pathological fear of the PRC, enough so that the IC was writing back and forth about him worriedly and saying he was going to say or do something really stupid.
Bobby may have been a peacenik, but not Jack.
Most definitely not true.
in 1939 at 22 JFK wrote a letter to his father about the plight of the Palestinians. It was the start of well documented evidence JFK was not like the rest.
he was no cold warrior. He talked tough to get elected and at times dissembled in an attempt to keep the cold warriors around him at bay but the facts we now know are clear.
- in 1957 his speech on Algeria in the senate supported Algerian independence against French colonial rule. This speech got him banned from campaigning for Adlai Stevenson
-in 1958 he was the only member of the federal government to meet with Patrice Lumumba who was desperately seeking help in his fight for an independent Congo vs Belgium…JFK supported Lumumba and U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarksjold
-in 1961 he tells the cia “no noise and no planes” re operation Zapata. Dulles lies to him about the chances for success. When the landings fail Bissell calls JFK at all hours of the next few nights and JFK holds firm “no planes”…and where was Dulles? Puerto Rico. He knew all along the operation would fail because it was planned to fail. (See, the notes of Allen Dulles T the Princeton library)
-subsequently JFK refused to invade Cuba 2x, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. he tells advisors “I’m going to splinter the CIA into a 1,000 pieces and scatter them to the winds. He says this not only because of BOP but because of the murders of Lumumba and Hammarksjold.
-1962 JFK sends an emmisary to meet with Ernesto Guevara to investigate what Che’s ultimate aims were.
-1962 he tells Algerian President Ben Bella “we can live with communism in Cuba” (see Betting On The Africans by Stanford professor Philip Muehlenbeck)
-in 1962 he attempts to remove covert ops from cia
-he fires Dulles, Bissell and Cabbel from CIA
-he turns down operation Northwoods from pentagon ad later fires Lyman Lemnitzer
-in 1962 he orders McNamara to head his Vietnam policy and order withdrawal plans from the generals (Paul Harkins et al)
-may 1963 mcnamara sees the withdrawal plans at the secdef conference in Hawaii and orders the generals to speed them up. Kennedy wanted everyone withdrawn by the end of the first year of what would have been his second term 1965
-the last 14 months of his life he held back door back channel peace talks with Kruschev that were so advanced Kruschev told his son Sergei that he was prepared to cut the USSR military budget in 1/2 in 1965
-the last 5 months of his life JFK had back door back channel detente talks with Castro via Lisa Howard (ABC) and Jean Daniel (French journalist). On 11-22-63 Daniel was in Havana providing JFk’s thoughts to Castro when news arrived JFK was murdered. JFK told Castro via Daniel the U.S. was responsible for the corrupt and horrific Bautista regime and their crimes
- the popular myth JFK and/or RFK authorized CIA to design and engage in plots to kill Castro have been destroyed by fact. The CIA IG Lyman Kirkpatrick investigated these plots and found neither JFk. Or RFK authorized them. They Didn’t even KNOW about them until 1963 and then they went through the roof and stopped them…until CIA restarted them without informing potus and AG. See report here:
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you’re an incredibly smart guy Kep but you are way way wrong about JFK. The scholarshi, declassified documents etc. available today proves JFK was a warrior for peace.
