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he turned to the former commander in chief of the Southwest Pacific Theatre
during World War II, General Douglas MacArthur. Almost ten years ago, a
reliable source shared with one of the authors an account of a meeting
between Kennedy and MacArthur in which the veteran general warned the young
President that there were elements inside the U.S. government who
emphatically did not share his patriotic motives, and who were seeking to
destroy his administration from within. MacArthur warned that the forces
bent on destroying Kennedy were centered in the Wall Street financial
community and its various tentacles in the intelligence community.
It is a matter of public record that Kennedy met with MacArthur in the
latter part of April 1961, after the Bay of Pigs. According to Kennedy aide
Theodore Sorenson, MacArthur told Kennedy, "The chickens are coming home to
roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house." / Note #9
At the same meeting, according to Sorenson, MacArthur "warned [Kennedy]
against the commitment of American foot soldiers on the Asian mainland, and
the President never forgot this advice." / Note #1 / Note #0 This point is
grudgingly confirmed by Arthur M. Schlesinger, a Kennedy aide who had a
vested interest in vilifying MacArthur, who wrote that "MacArthur expressed
his old view that anyone wanting to commit American ground forces to the
mainland [of Asia] should have his head examined." / Note #1 / Note #1
MacArthur restated this advice during a second meeting with Kennedy when
the General returned from his last trip to the Far East in July 1961.
Kennedy valued MacArthur's professional military opinion highly, and used
it to keep at arms length those advisers who were arguing for escalation in
Laos, Vietnam, and elsewhere. He repeatedly invited those who proposed to
send land forces to Asia to convince MacArthur that this was a good idea.
If they could convince MacArthur, then he, Kennedy, might also go along.
At this time, the group proposing escalation in Vietnam (as well as
preparing the assassination of President Diem) had a heavy Brown Brothers
Harriman/Skull and Bones overtone: The hawks of 1961-63 were Harriman,
McGeorge Bundy, William Bundy, Henry Cabot Lodge, and some key London
oligarchs and theoreticians of counterinsurgency wars. And of course,
George Bush during these years was calling for escalation in Vietnam and
challenging Kennedy to "muster the courage" to try a second invasion of
Cuba.
In the meantime, the JM/WAVE-Miami station complex was growing rapidly to
become the largest of Langley's many satellites. During the years after the
failure of the Bay of Pigs, this complex had as many as 3,000 Cuban agents
and subagents, with a small army of case officers to direct and look after
each one. According to one account, there were at least 55 dummy
corporations to provide employment, cover, and commercial disguise for all
these operatives. There were detective bureaus, gun stores, real estate b
rokerages, boat repair shops, and party boats for fishing and other
entertainments. There was the clandestine Radio Swan, later renamed Radio
Americas. There were fleets of specially modified boats based at Homestead
Marina, and at other marinas throughout the Florida Keys. Agents were
assigned to the University of Miami and other educational institutions.
The raison d'etre of the massive capability commanded by Theodore Shackley
was now Operation Mongoose, a program for sabotage raids and assassinations
to be conducted on Cuban territory, with a special effort to eliminate
Fidel Castro personally. In order to run these operations from U.S.
territory, flagrant and extensive violation of federal and state laws was
the order of the day. Documents regarding the incorporation of businesses
were falsified. Income tax returns were faked. FAA regulations were
violated by planes taking off for Cuba or for forward bases in the Bahamas
and elsewhere. Explosives moved across highways that were full of civilian
traffic. The Munitions Act, the Neutrality Act, the customs and
immigrations laws were routinely flaunted. / Note #1 / Note #2
Above all, the drug laws were massively violated as the gallant
anticommunist fighters filled their planes and boats with illegal narcotics
to be smuggled back into the United States when they returned from their
missions. By 1963, the drug-running activities of the covert operatives
were beginning to attract attention. JM/WAVE, in sum, accelerated the slide
of south Florida towards the status of drug and murder capital of the
United States it achieved during the 1980s.
The Kennedy Assassination
It cannot be the task of this study even to begin to treat the reasons for
which certain leading elements of the Anglo-American financial oligarchy,
perhaps acting with certain kinds of support from continental European
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