HOW THE FALSE BRAVADO OF THE CUBAN CRISIS WOULD ENTRAP US IN NAM AND LEAD US DOWN THE WRONG PATH IN AFGHANISTAN, THE DESTRUCTION OF ADLAI STEVENSON
Part 1
The President, naked, was laying on a cot by the pool. A half dozen of his pals were having sex with the girls by and in the pool. Group sex, moving from girl to girl. Suzy Chang, Ellen Rometsch and Maria Novotny were all playing doctor with the President. Bobby Baker, who had brought the girls, was gliding from one girl to another in the pool. Ellen was stunning, a dead ringer for a young Liz Taylor. The Secret Service agents kept a watch for Jackie, mumbling to themselves that they hoped the women didn't have a knife or gun. It was a regular day at the White House. It was a daily occurence.
90 miles from the coast of Florida a teenage girl in a bikini was being presented to Fidel Castro. Fidel needed a girl a day, plucked from the beach and brought to him who would also be told to keep silent about what was to come.
Bobby Baker gave the girls their money and warned them in front of the agents that if they spoke of the sex party with the President they would be put in a insane asylum for years. A couple of the Secret Service agents felt sick to their stomachs at this, but they knew this was a daily happening at the White House. Not exactly what they signed on for. The White House photographer finished taking the pictures of the party and took off to have them framed for the President. Photos that Bobby Kennedy would remove and destroy within hours of his brother's death.
It was just hours away from the President's daily meeting to discuss killing Castro. Unknown to his cabinet he had the CIA funding the groups that had been attacking Cuba in a series of raids. But they had hit a Russian ship, and his cabinet and advisers were in shock. What they didn't know was that JFK had given the groups free reign to do what they wanted. The CIA had no control over them, and were only informed of 10% of their actions. The mob, through Momo ( Chicago's own Giancana) was paying people to kill Castro, with money from the CIA. The CIA itself was carrying out Bobby's orders based on Bond books to kill Castro. A swimsuit with toxic poisons, a cigar with deadly smoke, a seashell that would explode. Crazy stuff. But the Kennedy's wanted it done Bond style.
JFK asked the men at the meeting what they thought of the Cuban exiles attacks on Cuba. He must have taken it as his private joke as each one warned the Cubans were out of control and should be stopped. He called on his critics from both parties to draw up more "sane" ways to deal with Cuba both militarily and economically. They scurried off, diverted from what was actually going on.
Fidel read the KGB report. Prostitutes who were actually Communist spies had gained information of plots to kill Castro by any means necessary. Off the coast of Florida, the U.S. military was doing a practice drill on a combined military attack on a small island similar to the coast of Cuba. Castro warned the KGB that a second Bay of Pigs was in the works, and said his nation needed protection.
Nikita Kruschev put down his 12 ounce glass of straight vodka and read the report from Cuba. Between the assassination attempts and the military maneuvers, Castro was right. He would authorize nuclear weapons and Russian troops that could assemble the missiles within just a couple of hours. The U.S. never knew of the Russians being with the missiles for quick assembly.
JFK had just successfully stopped the stories in the American press about his first wife whom he had never divorced. He owned the press, and they happily did his bidding.
He had placed nuclear warheads and missiles in Turkey, across the Black Sea and able to hit Russia's main cities. These were called "defensive missiles". Kruschev decided to call the Cuban missiles "defensive" if they were caught. Unknown to Castro and Nikita, CIA had photos of every ship that arrived in every port in Cuba.
Castro had wanted an independent socialist state but turned to the Soviets for help once he realized a death order hung over his head. The Russians poured hundreds of millions in and weapons and munitions. He was now deeply indebted to them. Operation Mongoose, the name of the "get Castro plots" had failed in killing him, but succeeded in making Cuba a base for the Soviets. In August of 1961 CIA gave the President the photos of 55 ships that pulled up to one port in Cuba, many times the number they usually had.
Humans are well, human. Intel secrets become cocktail fodder, whispers to hookers late at night. A way to let people know you know what they don't know. A way to impress a date. Pretty soon, ballistic missiles were the talk of Washington. Everyone knew, and the press began to report the rumors. The President said in public there was no proof of missiles in Cuba, but CIA had already informed him the nuclear warheads were there. One month from the Congressional elections, nothing could be done until after the election. Bobby and he chose to believe Kruschevs claims there were no warheads in Cuba, over the head of the CIA.
In all the Camelot history jesters books JFK didn't know and no one told him. In declassified reports, he chose not to believe them. After the election the republicans were in shock. How did these missiles get there? What did the President know and when did he know it?
The President called a Executive Committee of the NSA and brought in the GOP. The men who had begun to call for hearings, the only ones who would, were to be occupied with coming up with multiple strategies for removing the missiles. What they didn't know, what they couldn't know, was that JFK was already talking to Kruschev on his own.
As JFK left the meeting a Secret Service agent approached him with a British tabloid. The headline was about a Soviet run prostitution ring that had compromised "top leaders" in the government. JFK stopped dead in his tracks. There in a picture were Suzy Chang and Maria Novotny.
He told the agent to get every paper on this scandal just beginning to him as they came out.
TO BE CONTINUED
