COPA 2013 Presentation

[Gene Kelly]

Greg:

I'm curious as to your comment about Rusk ("That he became the "go to" man OPERATIONALLY when it was crunch time for decision making is indicative of a darker agenda"). I don't think it was unusual for Stevenson to go directly to Rusk, since I belive the ambassador to the UN reports through the Secretary of State. I don't know much about Rusk, his background and affiliations, and where his allegiance stood. There are some strong hints of who comprised the cabal (imho) from BOP. It seems Dulles, McCloy, Averill Harriman, Dean Acheson and Dillon are all suspect in retrospect... not sure about Bundy, as he was one of Kennedy's young wiz kids from Harvard). Wasn't Dulles out of the country at the time? The air cover story seems a red herring in my mind, an excuse to throw blame on the new President. BOP was not only sabotaged internally (almost intended to fail), it also had false flag pretext actions (designed to induce a declaration of war) as sub-elements (e.g. the attack on Guantanamo by soldiers dressed in Cuban uniforms). The invasion escalated from a small covert action to a large-scale military action in a few months. It's an amazing act of treason by CIA, and an end-run around the presidency... and also as if someone is beginning to sabotage Kennedy's continuance in office. But now you've raised my interest in Dean Rusk, a name not normally associated with the 'bad guys".

Gene

[Greg Burnham]

Gene,

As I mentioned earlier and you echoed: There was nothing suspect about an Ambassador to the United Nations (Stevenson) appealing to the Secretary of State (Rusk) in this instance.

It is, after all, the appropriate chain of command. However, that Rusk 1) prevailed on McGeorge Bundy to instruct Cabell to cancel a critical aspect of a paramilitary operation without

prior approval from the president and 2) that Bundy informed Cabell that any further discussion of the matter must be taken up with the Secretary (Rusk)--as opposed to the president or

other personnel more suited to the task of making these types of military judgments--does not appear serendipitous. You are correct that Dulles was indeed out of the country to give a

speech in Puerto Rico. One should also note that while the list of those who can get the president on the telephone is relatively long it is not infinite. Among those who could have called

the president directly are DCI Allen Dulles (out of country), Secretary of State Rusk, Secretary of Defense McNamara, National Security Advisor Bundy, JFK's Chief of Staff O'Donnell, the

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lemnitzer, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and many others. However, in this instance, those who were in a position to know the ramifications that

cancelled airstrikes would have had on the operation were NOT among them. Men like Jake Esterline, Colonel Jack Hawkins, J. C. King, and others either didn't know about the cancellation

or were unable to bring it to the attention of JFK due to lack of direct access. Even Cabell and Bissell did not enjoy direct access. When Rusk offered them the opportunity--or as Cabell put

it in his memo, offered them "the privilege"--of telephoning the president (under Rusk's access) they turned him down.

So here we have the Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, placed in position to be the FINAL word on a paramilitary operational decision upon which the entire success of the mission depended.

He was not trained for such a task and he knew it. Those who compromised Ambassador Stevenson's credibility in front of the United Nations by botching the CIA's "Cuban Pilot / False

Defector" scheme were not incompetent. They were clever. Stevenson's reaction was completely predictable: He would protest to the Secretary. In that single stroke of genius, in which

Stevenson's ego was made to suffer a big hit along with US credibility in the view of the International Community, lay the mechanism by which Rusk took command.

As for McGeorge Bundy: Not only did he deliver the cancellation order to Cabell, but he also instructed him that any protest was to be appealed to the Secretary! It was then that Bundy first

became Dean Rusk's errand boy. A position, I believe, he maintained until the end.

As for Dean Rusk, here's something I published 14 years ago:

JFK Offered Peaceful Co-Existence To Castro

January 1st, 2000 by Greg Burnham Castro had NO motivation to murder JFK. My reasoning in that regard is based on interviews I have conducted with persons in a position to know the details of JFK's (behind the scenes) CUBAN policy. In those years, it was politically suicidal for any public figure to openly suggest any non-agressive option to dealing with Communism. The "cold war" dictated the rules of engagement - and those rules were primarily based on the pontifications of those in the John Foster Dulles camp. Dean Rusk, a J.F. Dulles protege, was incredibly silent during a period when he was considered an expert on China by his colleagues in the State Department. Rusk, a Rhoades Scholar, was the Assisstant Secretary of State for the Far East, a position that was called "the suicide seat" during those years, yet Rusk VOLUNTEERED for the position; VOLUNTEERED to take a demotion from his current position of Deputy Undersecretary. -- But by that time the careers of many of the real "China Experts" at State: Marshall, Kennan, Bohlen, Clubb, Service, et al, had been ruined. Even the formidable, and formerly "untouchable" Dean Acheson was forever tarnished by the fall of China to Communism. Later, many of the best experts on China were described by Richard Nixon as graduates of "Dean Acheson's College for the Cowardly Containment of Communism..." But not DEAN RUSK. RUSK assumed the position of Assisstant Secretary (Far East) after China fell, thus escaping the China debacle unscathed. It was a fait accompli mostly because he did not participate in formulating policy, criticizing policy, or publically displaying an awareness of that doomed policy, in very much the same manner that he would later embrace as Secretary of State during Vietnam, attempting to project the appearance of having been "in no way involved". The reputation and career of John Patton Davies (arguably the VERY BEST expert on China) was all but ruined by those in the State Department and elsewhere, who blamed the fall of China to Communism, on the "failure of the U.S. to properly contain it" under the policies of the Democratic [Truman] Administration. Most people don't realize that Allen Dulles' brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Chairman of the ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION during the TRUMAN administration and that Dean Acheson, as Secretary of State was the prime architect of that administration's policy on South East Asia, with Dean Rusk as his principal Deputy for Asia. Together, they engineered the war in Vietnam at the end of WWII and the beginning of the end of a Democrat in the White House. By 1952, upon Republican candidate Eisenhower's election to the Presidency, John Foster Dulles would be leaving his position as the Chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation to accept the position of Eisenhower's Secretary of State. But, he needed to fill the position for ROCKEFELLER that he would be vacating. And he did just that. So, when Ike became President, Nixon became Vice-President, John Foster Dulles became Secretary of State, Allen Dulles became Director of Central Intelligence, and who became the Chairman of the ROCKEFELLER Foundation, you ask? Dean Rusk. Eight years later, JFK defeated Vice President NIxon to become the 35th President, and Dean Rusk, like John Foster Dulles before him, vacated the Chairmanship of the ROCKEFELLER Foundation, and became Kennedy's Secretary of State. Here's a rare memo from Richard Helms to National Security Advisor, McGeorge Bundy, confirming the JFK plan to re-establish relations (and much more) with Castro's Cuba. JFK realized, as he expressed in his speech at the American University, that the only sound "deal" between the US and the Communists that would insure a true and lasting peace, NOT a Pax Americana, where American weapons of war were used to inflict "our peace" on nations around the globe. Rather, a true peace would necessarily depend on the deal's being in the Communist's best interest, as well as our own best interest. He said that the only dependable agreements reached between nations were those agreements, AND ONLY those agreements, which served that nations own self interest... That is the type of "language" that get's a President killed by those in the business of WAR, who depend on the escalation of fear in the hearts of the taxpayers who will fund this great Military/Industrial Complex of which we were warned against by Dwight D. Eisenhower in his parting address to the nation. "We must guard against undue influence, whether sought or unsought, by the vast Military/ Industrial Complex."

[Steven Gaal]

DAVID had some interesting friends.(Gaal)

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DAVID

Born in 1915 and youngest son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Descendant of the German-Jewish Roggenfelder family which came to the United States in 1722. Attended school in New York City and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English history and literature from Harvard University in 1936. This was followed with a Ph.D. (1940) in economics from the University of Chicago and a study at both Harvard and the London School of Economics. Married Margaret "Peggy" McGrath in September 1940 and they raised six children, including son David Rockefeller Jr. Along with his brothers - John D. III, Nelson, Laurance, and Winthrop, David Rockefeller established the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) in 1940. Became a trustee of The Rockefeller Institute (later transformed into a university) for Medical Research in 1940. Trustee Rockefeller University 1940-1995. Secretary to New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia 1940-1941. Assistant regional director of the United States Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Service 1941-1942. Enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942. Military Intelligence officer in North Africa and Southern France 1942-1945. Set up an intelligence network in Algiers and was an insider to the battle between Charles De Gaulle and Henri Giraud for control over the French resistance. First became friends with William Paley (Pilgrims) and C.D. Jackson in Algiers.(BTW Edwin Pauley,John McCloy,Allen Dulles were also Pilgrims,Gaal)

Edited April 18, 2014 by Steven Gaal