JFK Records Reveal Kennedy Discussed Castro Assassination Plot
New York The John F Kennedy Memorial Library opens its first selection of 15 million pages, including 300 oral history interviews with figures such as Krushchev and Mansfield. Noted quotes recount Kennedy and Smathers discussing possible actions against Fidel Castro, including an assassination plot. The interviews also cover Berlin 1961 tensions and Kennedy’s aides’ perspectives.
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Cuba
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Bay of Pigs Landing
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Berlin
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Kennedy Library
Robert Kennedy
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Robert 5. McNamara
Defense
Dean Rusk
McGeorge Bundy
Smathers Talks on Kennedy Cuba Policy and Bay of Pigs Plan
Former Senator Smathers describes private discussions with President Kennedy before the Bay of Pigs and the 1962 missile crisis. He recalls proposing a false-flag attack on Guantanamo Bay as a pretext for military action, Kennedy’s shifting stance on Cuba, and a 1962 dinner where the president asked him to drop the Cuba topic.
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