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In reply to the discussion: CIA director withheld information about JFK assassination [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)69. Winchester 2525
Discovering the close relationship between Allen Dulles, John McCone and Prescott Bush made me sad. It makes me glad to know people care, though, and that means democracy has a fighting chance.
Details from historian and political science guy Larry J. Sabato, author of "The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy," in April 1969, Prescott Bush wrote Clover Dulles:
I recall in the summer of 1961, after the ill-fated Bay of Pigs affair, you were away and we called Allen to come for supper, and he accepted. That afternoon he called and asked if he could bring a friend, and we said "surely." So he brought John McCone, whom we had known well, but had not thought of as a particular friend of Allen's. But Allen broke the ice promptly, and said, in good spirit, that he wanted us to meet his successor. The announcement came (the) next day. We tried to make a pleasant evening of it, but I was rather sick at heart, and angry too, for it was the Kennedys that brought about the fiasco. And here they were making Allen seem to be the goat, which he wasn't and did not deserve. I have never forgiven them. (Misspellings corrected here.)
SOURCE p. 368 online.
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Remarkable, considering how Corporate McPravda has only played the lone nut tune since Nov. 22, 1963
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Oct 2015
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K&R! Thanks for the thread, octafish! Also, thanks for your tireless dedication to exposing the
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