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I got out in '64.
:18:04
Resigned my commission.
:18:07
I never realized Kennedy was so dangerous
to the establishment.
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Is that why?
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Thas the real question, isn't it? Why?
:18:17
The how and the who is just scenery
for the public.
:18:21
Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, the Mafia...
:18:24
...keeps them guessing, like a game.
:18:26
Prevents them from asking
the most important question: why?
:18:29
Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited?
:18:33
Who has the power to cover it up? Who?
:18:39
In 1961...
:18:42
...right after the Bay of Pigs,
very few people know this...
:18:46
...I participated in drawing up
National Security Action Memos 55, 56, 57.
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These are documents classified top secret.
:18:54
In them, Kennedy told Gen. Lemnitzer,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
:18:58
...that from here on, the Joint Chiefs
would be wholly responsible...
:19:02
...for all covert paramilitary action
in peacetime.
:19:05
This ended the reign of the CIA.
:19:08
Splintered it into 1,000 pieces,
as JFK promised he would.
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And now he was ordering the military...
:19:14
...to help him do it. Unprecedented!
:19:16
I can't tell you the shock waves this sent
along the corridors of power.
:19:21
This and the firing of Allen Dulles...
:19:23
...Richard Bissell and Gen. Charles Cabell.
:19:25
All were sacred cows in Intell
since World War II.
:19:29
They got some very upset people.
:19:32
Kennedy's directives weren't implemented
because of...
:19:35
...bureaucratic resistance.
:19:38
But one of the results was...
:19:40
...the Cuban operation was turned over
to my department...
:19:44
...as Operation Mongoose.
:19:46
Mongoose was pure Black Ops.
:19:49
It was secretly based at Miami University...
:19:52
...which has the largest
domestic CIA station...
:19:55
...budgeted annually for hundreds
of millions of dollars.
:19:58
Three hundred agents, 7,000 select Cubans.