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.”

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Dec 16
A must-read from the #JFKFiles: "SECRET EYES ONLY" CIA report to the DCI, Richard Helms, by the Inspector
General in 1967, "SUBJECT: Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro."

All other copies were destroyed. 143 pages the CIA never wanted you to see.

archives.gov/files/research…
This is truly a Holy Shit document. If you've never read this one, you should.

@RealCalebMaupin, this is right up your alley.
Interesting tidbit on page 31 of the "Kill Castro" CIA file:

In early 1961, when a plan was being cooked up to take Castro out gangland-style in a hail of bullets, the one guy who "flatly opposed the use of firearms" was Sam Giancana, of all people.
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