My responses below should be amended to note that declassification of previous administration and CIA sins was a Nixon strategy but one that never got rolling and was subsumed by Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Plan was to leak by Nixon Admin. details regarding Diem assassination, Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs, Powers and U-2, etc…
My responses below should be amended to note that declassification of previous administration and CIA sins was a Nixon strategy but one that never got rolling and was subsumed by Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Plan was to leak by Nixon Admin. details regarding Diem assassination, Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs, Powers and U-2, etc. Interesting that this included events during Nixon's time as VP. Nixon wanted a small team (Colson, Huston, Strachan, Allen, e.g.) of researchers to dig into it led by a "young bearcat." Hunt himself was proposed by Colson to lead it. That may have been a bad choice. Listen here:
I think that was more due to that idiot Kissinger advising Nixon not to do it since it would set precedent. But seeing how the CIA was willing to kill one president, I would have thought that Nixons paranoia would have kicked in to get them before they got him. Declassifying JFK’s assassination, which thanks to Mort Sahl, Dick Gregory and others spawning theories , as well as influential Camelot members still alive (think Jackie, Sorenson and Sallenger, et all) Then throw in MLK and RFK assassination CIA involvement thoughts, and I think would have knocked all that other crap off the NY Times front pages. It would have been too huge to ignore and every congressman and Senator would have been thanking Nixon, thus securing his guaranteed survival. An internal government agency involved in overthrowing the government through assassination? That would have been too huge for the Times to ignore, and Watergate and Pentagon Papers goes bye bye.
My responses below should be amended to note that declassification of previous administration and CIA sins was a Nixon strategy but one that never got rolling and was subsumed by Pentagon Papers and Watergate. Plan was to leak by Nixon Admin. details regarding Diem assassination, Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs, Powers and U-2, etc. Interesting that this included events during Nixon's time as VP. Nixon wanted a small team (Colson, Huston, Strachan, Allen, e.g.) of researchers to dig into it led by a "young bearcat." Hunt himself was proposed by Colson to lead it. That may have been a bad choice. Listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fYEOYzECs
and here, @9:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqnCYD_50mw&list=LL&index=31
I think that was more due to that idiot Kissinger advising Nixon not to do it since it would set precedent. But seeing how the CIA was willing to kill one president, I would have thought that Nixons paranoia would have kicked in to get them before they got him. Declassifying JFK’s assassination, which thanks to Mort Sahl, Dick Gregory and others spawning theories , as well as influential Camelot members still alive (think Jackie, Sorenson and Sallenger, et all) Then throw in MLK and RFK assassination CIA involvement thoughts, and I think would have knocked all that other crap off the NY Times front pages. It would have been too huge to ignore and every congressman and Senator would have been thanking Nixon, thus securing his guaranteed survival. An internal government agency involved in overthrowing the government through assassination? That would have been too huge for the Times to ignore, and Watergate and Pentagon Papers goes bye bye.