A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency ...
He also said in some places, such as Austria and Chile, far ... Castro before JFK ran for reelection in 1964. “Let’s remember that a good percentage of the covert operations were aimed at ...
Some readers of the previously redacted material in the memo saw it Thursday as evidence of mistrust between Kennedy and the ...
FILE - Newly-elected President Kennedy posed for first pictures at his White House ... 1961 as a covert invasion to topple Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Schlesinger’s memo was dated June 30 ...
trying to thwart Cuban leader Fidel Castro's support of communists in other countries. The documents suggest that Castro would not go so far as to provoke a war with the United States or escalate ...
Kennedy has thus far shed little new light on the killing ... spycraft — as a CIA informant gathering intelligence on Fidel Castro’s supporters, a field agent planting bugs at a Chinese ...