Fri Nov 08 1963 Oswald writes : “Dear Mr. Hunt, (most likely E. Howard Hunt) I would like more information concerning my position. I am asking only for information. I am suggesting that we discuss the matter fully before any steps are taken by me or anyone else. Thank you, Lee Harvey Oswald.” [ref. Last [...]
Also tagged 1963, E Howard Hunt, Lee Harvey OswaldReporter Arther Krock, citing a dispatch from Vietnam reporter Richard Starnes, writes, “The CIA’s growth was likened to a malignancy which the very high official was not sure even the White House could control any longer. If the United States ever experiences an attempt at a coup to overthrow the government it will come from [...]
Also tagged 1963, Arther Krock, Pentagon, Richard StarnesPauline Virginia Bates stated that Oswald told her that a Dallas engineer named Peter Gregory was interested in publishing his manuscript. On June 19, 1962, Oswald called Peter Paul Gregory, a petroleum engineer born January 25, 1929, in Siberia, who taught Russian at the Fort Worth public library. Peter Paul Gregory became Oswald’s entré into [...]
Also tagged 1962, Communism, Dallas, Fort Worth, Joint Press Reading Service, Lee Harvey Oswald, Pauline Bates, Peter Paul Gregory, White RussiansThe April 15 – April 19, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion (also known in Cuba as the Playa Girón after the beach in the Bay of Pigs where the landing took place) was an unsuccessful United States-planned and funded attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba. An attempt to overthrow the government of [...]
Also tagged 1961, Allen W Dulles, Bay of Pigs, Charles Cabell, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Operation Pluto, Operation Zapata, Richard BissellThe National Security Act of 1947, Pub. L. No. 235, 80 Cong., 61 Stat. 496 (July 26, 1947), signed by U.S. President Harry S. Truman realigned and reorganized the United States’ armed forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II. The majority of the provisions of the Act took [...]
Also tagged 1947, Foreign Policy, Harry Truman, Intelligence Community, James V Forrestal, Military, National Security Act of 1947, NSC