Bloody Treason: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by Twyman Noel H

Author:Twyman, Noel H. [Twyman, Noel H.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Politics
ISBN: 9780977472567
Publisher: Laurel Publishing
Published: 2010-01-15T16:00:00+00:00

McNamara responded that he could see that this possibly was true (that Kennedy was blamed for the fiasco), but implied that Kennedy did not deserve the blame.

I also told McNamara what Jim Lance had told me that he and a team were sent aboard Russian ships leaving Cuba to inspect for missiles, and were instructed to do nothing but give away Zippo lighters and not look at anything. McNamara said that was not true because no one boarded any Russian ships to inspect for missiles. He said that the U.S. did do flyovers fifty feet above the Russian ships and took photographs of the above-decks, which was the sum total of the inspection. I asked him if it were true that no missile inspections were done in the Cuban mainland. He replied affirmatively; part of the agreement allowed the U.S. to inspect for missiles in Cuba, but Castro reneged. He added that once Castro had reneged, we were no longer held to the agreement not to invade Cuba. We discussed whether Kennedy had actually agreed never to invade Cuba, and he seemed to hang up on that a bit. He said, “Well, perhaps we did, but it wasn’t explicitly said that way.” I pointed out that it did not seem likely that we would agree never to invade Cuba because that would obviously be something that would be impossible to promise in good faith. He seemed to agree. (I later reflected that this all might have some connection to an alleged plan for a second invasion of Cuba, which never materialized after Kennedy was assassinated. This comes up in a later chapter.)

I questioned McNamara about Robert Morrow’s story[329] that Morrow was a CIA operative who went on a covert expedition into Cuba for the CIA, at the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961, to check for evidence of the beginning of construction of offensive missile sites in Cuba. McNamara replied that he didn’t know about covert missions, but certainly they would not have been looking for missile sites because there was no buildup of missile sites in Cuba until May 1962 at the earliest. He said he is absolutely certain of this based on conferences he had with top military people in the Soviet Union during the last few years and a conference with Fidel Castro and Soviet top people in Cuba. He was positive there were no missile sites under construction before May 1962. McNamara was extremely emphatic on that point. (In his book, Morrow had written that he and David Ferrie were on this mission together and that they had actually discovered radar sites—the purpose of which could have been only for ballistic missile guidance.)

I asked McNamara if there were nuclear warheads actually mounted on missiles in Cuba at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. He replied that warheads were not mounted, but that recently he had learned at conferences with the Russians and Castro that there were actually 162 nuclear warheads in

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