I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces.

With support from the likes of Giancana, Trafficante and Hoffa, John Kennedy narrowly won the 1960 Presidential Election. This surprised many in the media and pretty much all of the intelligence community. Expectation at the CIA was that Richard Nixon would be the new president and that the Cuban invasion would be a go.

While he was president there were a little more than 130 Americans killed in Vietnam... and he was looking at pretty much everyone out after being re-elected. Unfortunately 130 Americans killed was a good week when Lyndon Johnson took over the office. His desire to remove Americans from Vietnam was a source of friction between the president and the CIA along with the rest of the military-industrial complex.

The CIA people looked at him like a weak sister who was unable to do the job of keeping the country secure. There were some younger officials who supported Kennedy, but for the sake of their continued employment and career advancement they did not take the position publicly.

The fracture between they president and CIA became complete when he refused to provide the necessary air cover for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. The erroneously believed that once the invasion was underway the president would have no choice but to go along with their plans.

The secret planning had began during the Eisenhower administration and the expectation was the the newly elected Richard Nixon would go along with the plans because he had been dealing the Cuban situation for some time. However Nixon was not president, but the plans were moving forward as were efforts to find a way to assassinate Fidel Castro.

What the intelligence community did not know is that even before he took office John Kennedy was in contact with Castro through back channels to normalize relations between the two countries. He even quietly met the Cubans during their historic trip to the United Nations in New York City.

Following this debacle, Kennedy vowed to break up the CIA and take away their power to make independent foreign policy. He fired Allen Dulls who was Director at the time, and several of his top advisors. Dulles lost his position, but not his influence.

J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, had a tenuous relationship with the new Attorney General, the presidents brother, Robert Kennedy. Hoover was also rapidly approaching the mandatory retirement age for federal employees and President Kennedy was not willing to pursue a waiver to keep him in the position he held for decades.

What the president didn't know was that Hoover was keeping an eye on potential domestic subversives like Martin Luther King Jr as well as himself. When Kennedy was looking to have a west coast meeting with some of his supporters. Frank Sinatra was sure it would be at his home. However about this time Hoover showed the president information that showed his inappropriate relationship with Judith Campbell, who also spent time with both Frank Sinatra and Sam Giancana. The brothers decided it would be best to make a clean break with that group of associates, so the had Peter Lawford, the president's brother-in-law , who was part of Sinatra's Rat Pack pass the word on the the singer.

To add insult to injury, the event was moved to the home a Bing Crosby – a Republican of all people! Frank Sinatra was so furious it is said he to a sledge hammer and demolished a concrete pad he had made for the presidential helicopter for what he had hoped were frequent visits to the west coast.

Then there were the rulers of the underworld, Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, Sam Giancana and their associate, Jimmy Hoffa. They did their thing as promised to help Kennedy into office but were incensed that the new Attorney General made it his business to put them out of business.

We cannot forget the wealthy oil men from Texas – Lyndon Johnson's cronies. Kennedy saw the oil depletion allowance that permitted them to keep around 30% of their income untaxed. He didn't like that they could use this money to finance conservative causes that were often critical of him. He was looking to eliminate it or at least substantially reduce it.

Lastly there was the once powerful vice president who lived for wealth and power who was known to make the comment, “one out of every four presidents has died in office. I'm a gamblin' man, darlin'.” In the past he had his “associate” Mac Wallace handle troublesome situations and it seems he was fixing to again.

Weather you liked the job he did as president or not, it is not difficult to see that he was bringing his Camelot into a deep state of vipers who were not his friends.

Profiles in Courage
by John F Kennedy

During 1954-55, Kennedy, then a junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, profiled eight American patriots, mainly United States Senators, who at crucial moments in our nation’s history, revealed a special sort of greatness: men who disregarded dreadful consequences to their public and private lives to do that one thing which seemed right in itself. They were men of various political and regional allegiances—their one overriding loyalty was to the United States.

Courage such as these men shared, Kennedy makes clear, is central to all morality—a man does what he must in spite of personal consequences—and these exciting stories suggest that, without in the least disparaging the courage with which men die, we should not overlook the true greatness adorning those acts of courage with which men must live.

As Robert F. Kennedy writes in the foreword, Profiles in Courage “is not just stories of the past but a book of hope and confidence for the future. What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us."

The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis: Forensic Analysis of the JFK Autopsy X-Rays Proves Two Headshots from the Right Front and One from the Rear
by David W. Mantik M.D., Ph.D., Jerome R. Corsi Ph.D.

In this decisive analysis of the JFK assassination, medical expert Dr. David W. Mantik and New York Times bestselling author Jerome R. Corsi definitively validate the observations of the physicians at Parkland Hospital, who recognized immediately that the wound in JFK’s throat and the massive, avulsed blow-out in the back of his head both involved frontal shots.

What distinguishes this book from the myriad of books written on the JFK assassination is that Dr. Mantik’s optical density measurements of the JFK skull X-rays in the National Archives leave no doubt the X-rays were altered to disguise evidence of the two frontal shots. With over four decades of experience reading X-rays, Dr. Mantik has examined the JFK assassination materials more than anyone else.

Mantik and Corsi present overwhelming testimonial and documentary evidence that proves the Bethesda surgeons performed pre-autopsy surgery on JFK’s head to remove evidence of the forehead bullet, as well as to gain access to his brain and thus “sanitize the crime scene” by removing bullet fragments and bullet tracks in the brain tissue.

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy’s tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. In A Thousand Days, Schlesinger combines intimate knowledge as one of President Kennedy’s inner circle with sweeping research and historic context to provide a look at one of the most legendary presidential administrations in American history.

From JFK’s battle with Nixon during the 1960 election, to the seemingly charmed inaugural days, to international conflict and domestic unrest, Schlesinger takes a close and fond, but unsparing, look at Kennedy’s tenure in the White House, covering well-known successes, like his involvement in the Civil Rights movement; infamous humiliations, like the Bay of Pigs; and often overlooked struggles, like the Skybolt missile mix-up, alike.

JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy
by L. Fletcher Prouty

Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, the former CIA operative known as “X,” offers a history-shaking perspective on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. His theories were the basis for Oliver Stone’s controversial movie JFK.

Prouty believed that Kennedy’s death was a coup d’état, and he backs this belief up with his knowledge of the security arrangements at Dallas and other tidbits that only a CIA insider would know (for example, that every member of Kennedy’s cabinet was abroad at the time of Kennedy’s assassination). His discussion of the elite power base he believes controlled the U.S. government will scare and enlighten anyone who wants to know who was really behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

This is must reading for anyone who believes that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act along and that a complicated plot led to the murder of President Kennedy.