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In reply to the discussion: Oliver Stone's "documentary" is a farce. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)49. What? Like the time Eisenhower's CIA asked the Mafia to kill Castro?
That was 1960, when Richard Milhous Nixon was a vice-president "in the loop."
AUG 1960: Richard Bissell meets with Colonel Sheffield Edwards, director of the CIA's Office of Security, and discusses with him ways to eliminate or assassinate Fidel Castro. Edwards proposes that the job be done by assassins hand-picked by the American underworld, specifically syndicate interests who have been driven out of their Havana gambling casinos by the Castro regime. Bissell gives Edwards the go-ahead to proceed. Between August 1960, and April 1961, the CIA with the help of the Mafia pursues a series of plots to poison or shot Castro. The CIAs own internal report on these efforts states that these plots "were viewed by at least some of the participants as being merely one aspect of the over-all active effort to overthrow the regime that culminated in the Bay of Pigs." (CIA, Inspector General's Report on Efforts to Assassinate Fidel Castro, p. 3, 14)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/bayofpigs/chron.html
I wonder if they told Bobby about that history?
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Well, O.K. (I read the whole link.)But it was priceless when STONE dropped his bomb on Morning Scab
UTUSN
Nov 2012
#4
It's loathsome on a liberal website that anyone would DARE judge a move without seeing it first.
KittyWampus
Nov 2012
#39
last movie I saw from stone was platoon. Won't waste time with his vision of things anymore
still_one
Nov 2012
#27
Stone does the nation a service by bringing up the things the rightwing prefers we move on from.
Octafish
Nov 2012
#18
To me JFK was more about the fascination with the event and all the conspiracy theories
CBGLuthier
Nov 2012
#19
I think the other poster was asking if you'd seen the documentary you are testifying
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2012
#32
So what? That was before LBJ used the Tonkin Gulf Incident as casus belli for sending in draftees.
Octafish
Nov 2012
#37
I don't care for most of his films, nor for him personally, but this is not valid criticism
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2012
#30
First time I heard that stupid thing talk I fell "back and to the left" on my ass. :-p nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Nov 2012
#42