
How CIA's Operation Mongoose terror war led to Cuban missile crisis
Geopolitical Economy Report
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William Harvey and the Kennedy Assassination
CIA director John McCone talks to CIA officer Ray Klein and he says Harvey has destroyed himself today his usefulness has ended the other people at the CIA also are in trouble for their not failing to identify this problem beforehand. This is of a piece with that so on October 23rd you have basically some like exchanges of letters and diplomacy between Kennedy and Cruz Chev. On October 25th Soviet arms freighters turn around go back to Europe which is better than them engaging if you're trying to avoid a war an oil tanker called the Bucharest approaches the quarantine zone heading for Cuba two warships prepare to intercept it but Kennedy decides to let the Bucharest through the quarantine because it isn't carrying any contraband.
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