In his farewell address, he warned of a new threat to freedom from within the United States. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions, he said. Three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
A longtime CIA ally. It was this man’s Life magazine that worked with the CIA to scapegoat “Viet Minh Communists” for the CIA terrorist bombings of Saigon in 1952. Besides being CIA-friendly, this man was an enemy to Kennedy. In the wake of the April 1962 steel crisis, his Fortune magazine had implicitly warned the president, on behalf of America’s business elite, to beware “the ides of April” for his dominant role in settling the crisis. The Fortune editorial was a corporate declaration of war against the Kennedy administration and a veiled personal threat to the president. His media empire epitomized the corporate, military, and intelligence forces that wanted to stop Kennedy. For Kennedy’s new ambassador to consult this man on how he should act as Kennedy’s Vietnam ambassador was asking for trouble for the president. This man was happy to oblige. Name this man.
He told the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on October 31, 1959, that his new allegiance was to the U.S.S.R. He said he had promised Soviet officials he “would make known to them all information concerning the Marine Corps and his specialty therein, radar operations.” However, the Warren Report did not mention that in the Marine Corps he had been a radar operator specifically for the CIA’s top-secret U-2 spy plane. By not admitting his U-2 or CIA connections, the Warren Commission avoided the implications of his offering to give “something of special interest” to the Soviets. He was either a blatant traitor or, as his further history reveals, a U.S. counterintelligence agent being dangled before the Russians as a Marine expatriate. What is this person’s name?
She met Lee and Marina Oswald at a Feb. 1963 party that CIA asset George de Mohrenschildt helped arrange which took place in Dallas at the home of a friend. She was a student of the Russian language. She wanted to meet somebody with whom she could practice. She attended it especially to meet Marina. She spent part of the evening conversing in Russian with Marina. George de Morenschildt brought the Oswalds to the party. De Mohrenschildt told the Warren Commission "I noticed immediately that there was another nice relationship developed there between Mrs. Paine and Marina." Ruth followed up her introduction to the Oswalds by letters, phone calls, and visits to Marina in particular. In late April, she would convince Marina to move into her house in Irving, a suburb of Dallas, for two weeks, while Lee went ahead "to look for work" in New Orleans--where he would be sheep-dipped by U.S. intelligence that summer as a follower of Fidel Castro. When Lee Oswald was settled in New Orleans, she and her children would drive Marina and her fourteen-mon-old daughter down to New Orleans with the encouragement and financial support of her husband Michael, from whom she was separated.
Vietnam was spiraling out of Kennedy’s control. So was a crisis in Alabama. On June 11, _________________placed himself in the doorway of the University of Alabama to keep two black students from registering. Working closely with his brother in the Attorney General’s office, the president federalized the Alabama National Guard in the same hour to move him aside and register the students. He decided to address the nation that night on the moral and civic crisis it was facing at home, as dramatized by this governor.
Michael Paine's step father was the inventor of the ______________-a fact discovered by researchers thirty years after the Kennedy assassination. By heritage Michael was well connected in the military-industrial complex
After Blough departed, Kennedy shared the bad news with a group of his advisers. They had never seen him so angry. He said, “________________always told me that all businessmen were sons-of-bitches, but I never believed it until now.” His explosive remark appeared in the New York Times on April 23, 1962. The corporate world never forgot it. A bitter gap opened up between Kennedy and big business, whose most powerful elements coincided with the military-industrial complex.
These two people became Lee and Marina Oswald's sponsors in Dallas after de Mohrenschildt stepped out of the picture. Name these two people - first names only.
When the Oswalds came under the protective wings of the Paines, he was working as a research engineer with a defense contractor, Bell Helicopter, in Fort Worth, Texas. He acknowledged to the Warren Commission that his job had a security clearance, though he diddn't happen to know what the security clearance was. His stepfather, Arthus Young, had invented the Bell helicopter (a fact discovered 30 years after the Kennedy assassination). By heritage he was well-connected to the military industrial complex. His mother was a lifelong friend of Mary Bancroft who worked side by side with Allen Dulles as a WWII spy in switzerland and became his mistress and with whom he maintained close contact. Allen Dulles was Director of the CIA who interpreted "plausible deniability" as a green light to assassinate national leaders, topple governments and lie to cover up any trace of accountability.
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