Ep. 74: Church and Deep State (Part 1)
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
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The Bay of Pigs and the CIA
Nixon told his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, to bring in Director Helms and remind him that the White House has protected Helms from one hell of a lot of things. "The Bay of Pigs hasn't got a damn thing to do with this," Richard Helms shot back. In 1988, several years after all of this, Helms told an interviewer that the CIA could have done as Nixon wished but didn't.
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