:22:02
I hear the NSC meeting
was a real barn burner.
:22:05
I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Heads will roll. Hear about Lemnitzer?
:22:09
What?
:22:10
Kennedy rubbed Lem's nose in shit.
:22:13
Said if we didn't go into Cuba,
which was so close...
:22:16
...why go into Vietnam
which is so far away?
:22:18
There he goes again.
:22:20
Got his hand on the chicken switch.
:22:22
Lem said that the Chiefs still think
we should go into Cuba.
:22:25
Money's at stake.
:22:27
Big money. $100 billion.
:22:30
Kennedy bred voting districts
for defense dollars.
:22:33
He gave TFX fighter contracts only
to those counties that will matter in '64.
:22:37
The people in the loop fight back.
Their way.
:22:40
We have to control the intelligence
from Saigon.
:22:43
We just don't let McNamara stick his nose
in this thing!
:22:47
Every time he goes over to Saigon
for a fact-finding mission...
:22:51
...he comes back and scares the shit
out of Kennedy!
:22:54
Now I want Max Taylor on him
night and day...
:22:56
...like a fly on shit.
:22:59
You control McNamara,
you control Kennedy.
:23:03
I think it started like that.
:23:05
In the wind.
:23:06
Defense contractors, oil bankers.
Just conversation.
:23:10
A call is made. Maybe to someone
like my superior officer General Y.
:23:15
We're going. We need your help.
:23:18
When?
:23:19
In the fall. Probably in the South.
:23:22
We want you to come up with a plan.
I can do that.
:23:25
Everything is cellularized.
:23:27
No one said, "He must die." No vote.
Nothing's on paper.
:23:30
There's no one to blame.
:23:33
Is as old as the crucifixion.
:23:35
Or the military firing squad.
:23:37
Five bullets, one blank. No one's guilty.
:23:41
Everybody in the power structure...
:23:42
...has a plausible deniability.
:23:45
No compromising connections
except at the most secret point.
:23:49
But it must succeed.
:23:51
No matter how many die
or how much it costs...
:23:54
...the perpetrators must be
on the winning side...
:23:57
...and never subject to prosecution
for anything by anyone.