Treasure trove of JFK, LBJ documents declassified by CIA

[hifiguy]

30. Welp, that is a Must Read.

Ever since I became aware of the fact that Dulles was one of the prime movers behind the Bay of Pigs - probably when I read Schlesinger's bio of RFK in the early 1980s, he has been at the top of my suspects list. JFK demanded, and got, Dulles' head for that fiasco. That he was subsequently named to the commission that investigated the death of the man who ended his career as Chief Spook seemed beyond fishy to me.

Reading Kinzer's The Brothers recently rekindled my suspicions. The intimate, lengthy connections between the Dulles brothers and the Real Power in the US is undeniable. Allen Dulles had already removed or otherwise dispatched Mossadegh, Arbenz and Lumumba. Why wouldn't he think he could remove a POTUS that stood in the way of his designs? Particularly one against whom he had a decided personal animus for being an arriviste and a threat to his entire worldview (which Douglass details at some length - the American University speech in particular, which probably sealed JFK's fate), not to mention the man who fired him for enactment of a blown, and insane, operation, to wit the BoP. Dulles had also doubtless been informed of JFK's very serious threat "to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds."

And anyone who thinks he didn't retain at least some functional control over the CIA after he was sacked is naive beyond words.

If he wasn't the sole person who signed off on the hit on Kennedy he was one of no more than two or three, and I'd bet something substantial that it was Dulles himself who gave the final go-ahead.