Thread by @RealLoriSpencer

There’s a lot about #Watergate you probably don’t know — because it was kept from you.

As journalist ⁦@jeffersonmorley⁩ spells out in his latest book, Nixon’s plan to threaten CIA Director Helms over the #JFK Assassination blew back in his face.
politico.com/news/magazine/…

In the context of his long-standing demand for the CIA’s records, the invocation of “the ‘Who shot John?’ angle” on the Nixon tape can only refer to one thing: Kennedy’s assassination.

The ambush in Dallas was the first thing on Nixon’s mind as he pressed the CIA director for the agency’s Bay of Pigs files.

The president intuited a connection between the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 and JFK’s assassination two years later.

@TheOliverStone’s biopic “Nixon” depicted an ominous exchange about the Bay of Pigs in which Helms condescends to Nixon.

In articulating his dream of détente with China and Russia, Nixon says, “Cuba would be a small price to pay.” Helms replies, “So President Kennedy thought.”

#JFK was striving towards detente’ with the #SovietUnion in the final months of his life, signing the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 3 months before his murder.

#Nixon signed the Salt 1 Treaty with the #USSR on May 26, 1972 — just 3 weeks before the #Watergate break-in. 🤔

Did the #CIA destroy #Nixon because he, too, had become troublesome to the Agency’s #ColdWar interests?

Let’s just say there’s more than one way to get rid of a president who annoys the CIA, or who looks too deeply into their “dirty tricks.”