Reply #26: Indeed, history reveals that Eisenhower was somewhat startled by the complicity of his successor

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with the plan - he had expected at the very least a non-committal attitude based on partisan considerations (in case the plan blew up in the Republican administrations face, just days before the inauguration), but what he got, to his delight, was an almost eager acceptance.

Ike knew from that moment going forward that whatever else his successor was that he might not like, he was at least as committed to conducting the Cold War in the same ruthless manner that Eisenhower himself had been when it came to covert Ops.