Records: Kissinger made plans to attack Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Records: Kissinger made plans to attack Cuba
| October 1, 2014 | Updated: October 1, 2014 2:18pm

NEW YORK (AP) — Newly revealed government records show that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger drew up contingency plans nearly 40 years ago to attack Cuba over their deployment of troops to Angola.

The documents were declassified at the request of the National Security Archive, which published them online Wednesday. An account of the episode is being published in a new book, "Back Channel to Cuba," written by William M. LeoGrande, a professor at American University, and Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuban Documentation Project at the National Security Archive.

Among other things, the documents detail a Feb. 25, 1976, Oval Office meeting where Kissinger told President Gerald R. Ford, "I think we are going to have to smash Castro. We probably can't do it until after the election."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Records-Kissinger-made-plans-to-attack-Cuba-5794275.php

[zeemike]

1. Why does that not surprise me.

Henry is our Dr. Strangelove.

[KansDem]

2. Why do we have this obsession with Cuba?

I think we are going to have to smash Castro. We probably can't do it until after the election.

We've had a blockade now for some 50 years. I can buy clothes today made in Vietnam and Cambodia (remember those countries?) and yet, we still won't trade with Cuba.

I don't understand it...

[Judi Lynn]

3. Wayne S. Smith, who was the US head of the US Interests Section (quasi-embassy) in Havana,

said the response in US politicians to the word "Cuba" is similar to werewolves' response to a full moon.

Sounds about right, doesn't it?

[KansDem]

8. Good observation...

I was hoping to visit Cuba some day, but it looks like that'll never happen...

http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/country/cuba.html

[amandabeech]

10. Florida has a lot of electoral votes, and a lot of anti-Castro Cubans and Cuban-Americans. n/t

[ColesCountyDem]

4. Kissinger was an evil, EVIL man!

God only knows the damage he's done to this country!

[Judi Lynn]

5. Absolutely. The world would have been so much better off without him.

They must have given him the Nobel Peace Prize as a gag. They were probably doubled over as he pompously accepted it.

[ColesCountyDem]

6. Yes, indeed!

Him receiving the Nobel Peace Prize made my head spin!

[blkmusclmachine]

7. Hillary Roddam Clinton likes Kissinger; just another member of the 1% Club.

[Judi Lynn]

9. That rips it. No one walks away clean from embracing that guy. Nothing can atone for that. n/t

[Viva_Daddy]

11. Thank God Jimmy Carter was elected and this "plan" died.

[Octafish]

12. Secret Government is un-American.

This report shows why.

While it would make a good corporate headline: "Ford-Kissinger liberate Cuba" it would omit the "for the Mafia" part.

Thank you, Judi Lynn!