It was summer 1963 when a senior official of CIA's operations directorate treated our Junior Officer Trainee (JOT) class to an unbridled rant against President John F. Kennedy. He accused JFK, among other things, of rank cowardice in refusing to send U.S. armed forces to bail out Cuban rebels pinned down during the CIA-launched invasion at the Bay of Pigs, blowing the chance to drive Cuba's Communist leader Fidel Castro from power.
It seemed beyond odd that a CIA official would voice such scathing criticism of a sitting President at a training course for those selected to be CIA's future leaders. I remember thinking to myself, "This guy is unhinged; he would kill Kennedy, given the chance."
© Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning NewsPresident John F. Kennedy in the motorcade through Dallas shortly before his assassination on Nov. 22, 1963.
Our special guest lecturer looked a lot like E. Howard Hunt, but more than a half-century later, I cannot be sure it was he. Our notes from such training/indoctrination were classified and kept under lock and key.
At the end of our JOT orientation, we budding Agency leaders had to make a basic choice between joining the directorate for substantive analysis or the operations directorate where
case officers run spies and organize regime changes (in those days, we just called the process overthrowing governments).
Comment: Unfortunately, the ever increasing war against Trump by the Deep State is going to culminate in either a lame-duck president (if Trump isn't one already) or a dead one. The interesting parallel is that there hasn't been a president since Kennedy that has so incited the fury of the Washington elite to launch this level of attack on a president, although it does seem they have finally gotten 'through' to Trump.
Though Trump's promises to "drain the swamp" were noble, they were short-sighted and he underestimated what they were capable of. Even Kennedy had an idea of the "monolithic and ruthless conspiracy" that he was up against and he was eventually taken down because the Deep State decided that they could not control him. This set a precedent for all future presidents: 'you either play ball or you'll end up like you-know-who'.
On the up-side (if we can call it that), by taking on Trump in the way they have, the Deep State is exposing itself to the public as the 'eminence grise' behind the scenes in the USA. Will Americans finally wake up to this unsavory, yet undeniable truth?
For more on Trump and the Deep State see:
Comment: Unfortunately, the ever increasing war against Trump by the Deep State is going to culminate in either a lame-duck president (if Trump isn't one already) or a dead one. The interesting parallel is that there hasn't been a president since Kennedy that has so incited the fury of the Washington elite to launch this level of attack on a president, although it does seem they have finally gotten 'through' to Trump.
Though Trump's promises to "drain the swamp" were noble, they were short-sighted and he underestimated what they were capable of. Even Kennedy had an idea of the "monolithic and ruthless conspiracy" that he was up against and he was eventually taken down because the Deep State decided that they could not control him. This set a precedent for all future presidents: 'you either play ball or you'll end up like you-know-who'.
On the up-side (if we can call it that), by taking on Trump in the way they have, the Deep State is exposing itself to the public as the 'eminence grise' behind the scenes in the USA. Will Americans finally wake up to this unsavory, yet undeniable truth?
For more on Trump and the Deep State see: