40 years ago this week-----Cuba gets invaded by CIA
Hello Folks, Many of us forget how crazy things were in the 60's, but 40 years ago this week the CIA and its pals set up the Bay of Pigs invasion. It was helped along with fruit companies and oil companies that lost all their investments as Castro took over and made those state items. Folks like JFK were talked into playing along with the plan, but with no overt US connections. So, Cuba was invaded with former Cuban nationals. Planes were painted up to look like Cuban air force planes and bombed Cuba airports. Later, a big landing at the bay of pigs was suppose to trigger the overthrow of Castro. The CIA told everyone there was full US backing and the US would bring in air support, if they got into trouble. Trouble was, JFK was firmly against that and it never happened. Instead the CIA and its industrial buddies hair brained plan ended up getting lots of these folks killed or tossed in Cuban jails. Later, it took 57 million US dollars to bail out the prisoners, mostly as tractors and medical aid. Castro, then leagued up with the Russians after all the US CIA games looked like they wanted to kill him off. This then developed into how Russia could counter the Turkish Jupiter missiles aimed at Russia. The US got Cuba with Russian missiles that could reach 80% of US bases. The U2's picked up this development and JFK countered with a Quarantine, a fancy word to ignore the war term blockade. In the tense 13 day escalation, knots were tied tight. It was only via some behind the scenes dealing that JFK agreed to pull out the Jupiters and keep hands off Cuba that the knots began to loosen. After this, the red phone was installed to have more direct contact and try to keep tensions short of a nuke war. As all this went down, the CIA and its buddies started calling JFK weak and the national security establishments started calling him a boot ledgers kid and such. They blamed him for the CIA missions screw ups in Cuba and for beginning to power down the nuclear arms business. JFK was forcing accountability on the CIA's special forces operations and even the CIA. It was not long before the CIA and its industrial pals decided that JFK was more the enemy than Cuba and started thinking of plans to pull their replacement tricks on him rather than Cuba. It was in 63, that the national security types were again cooking up hair brained plans to get Cuba, some of which JFK found out. Which put JFK on a bend to expose the CIA's jewels, things like the human experiments with chemical and radiation and who really botched the Cuban deals. It was the death sentence for the CIA and its national security good old boys, the writing was on the wall. JFK was really pissed at folks misusing the power of the white house. JFK was making the nuke folks look at the causes of disease from their testing and ending atmospheric testing. He was putting in big cuts to the nuclear system. It was the nuclear good old boys connections with the CIA and the Cuban good old boys family networks that finally organized a plot to take out JFK and leave much more friendly LBJ in place. The rest is now history. Oswald was found a job at the book repository by one of the Cuban fruit industry connections. The American public still does not know the real truths, but some are awake enough to question the Warren deception. The 60's, were insane times in the US, and many of these inanities still tainted US politics today and the power of the Mil/Inds network. Not much separates communism and capitalism, especially when the mil/indust network has such powers to hide and classify the truth, avoid accountability, and excessively control democracy. Democracy is based on openness and the sun shining on problems and this has been circumvented via national security and the US citizens kept blinded and taken hostage.