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Truman recommends shutting down CIA

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Matt Grantham:

--- Quote from: Richard Rubio on June 02, 2018, 05:39:20 PM ---Ike warned of the military/industrial complex.

 KGB is doing quite a bit too during this time.

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 Exactly, and that was the type of secretive operational capability that they did not want to see in a free republic I made sure to keep out the word democracy since I know that is a panic button for right wing ideologues

Richard Rubio:
Let's lay the scenario down,

Truman wants to shut the CIA down,

Just for speculation sakes, Dulles participated in taking JFK down, now, when he hears about Truman's views of wanting to shut the CIA down,  he begs him to change his mind.

Sound like a plausible scenario? To some it will and others it won't...like everything else on this forum.

Richard Rubio:
December 22nd, 1963 was a Sunday, so one can make out of that whatever one wants. I say that means, the paper saved up an important piece, anything written by an ex-president for the Sunday papers.

Michael Clark:

--- Quote from: Richard Rubio on June 04, 2018, 01:59:48 AM ---December 22nd, 1963 was a Sunday, so one can make out of that whatever one wants. I say that means, the paper saved up an important piece, anything written by an ex-president for the Sunday papers.

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The letter was dated December 21st. It was printed December 22.

The paper didn't "save" that letter. They printed it immediately.

Truman wrote it less than a month after JFK was assassinated. If he wanted to avoid making a correlation between the assassination of JFK and the CIA, waiting 24 hours before releasing it would have served that purpose. Waiting until after New Years would have separated the event from his statement even more so. He chose not to do either. He chose to tie his statement about the renegade CIA and the assassination together by balancing tact, the immediate urgency of the message, and  symbolic calendar date with the release of his message.

Matt Grantham:
 Michael If he made an effort to make sure it was on 22nd sure does raise the specter that it was in fact a symbolic nature Thank you

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