JFK was getting out of Vietnam. The post 1998 monographs are clear. If we did not have left-gatekeepers we would not still be teaching checks and balances in every school because there are none.

DEAR CIA SENATOR SLOTKIN: REMEMBER WHEN CIA cancelled the 1956 elections scheduled for Viet Nam and later assassinated JFK, Malcolm X, MLK, and UAW President Walter Reuther, hence causing and prolonging that Vietnam War thingy? But by all means continue lecturing us on the causes of corruption. ————— “When Kennedy made some speeches for Stevenson he used the opportunity to attack the Manichean world view of the Eisenhower-Dulles administration. But he also alluded to the fact that the Democrats were not that much better on the issue: The Afro-Asian revolution of nationalism, the revolt against colonialism, the determination of people to control their national destinies … in my opinion the tragic failure of both Republican and Democratic administrations since World War II to comprehend the nature of this revolution, and its potentialities for good and evil, has reaped a bitter harvest today—and it is by rights and by necessity a major foreign policy campaign issue that has nothing to do with anti-communism. 39” — Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case by James DiEugenio

JFK was literally finalizing detente w Castro at the moment of his assassination, but today’s LET CIA DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING FAKE LEFT CANNOT ADMIT THAT or any of JFK’s other actual foreign policies, because then they would be able to inflict a political cost on today’s CIA Democrats, whom they pretend to oppose, but actually preserve. ————// “In late spring of 1963, Castro now continued the back channel through a different source, ABC news reporter Lisa Howard. In a very long interview with her, Castro was clear about his desire for some kind of melting of tensions with America. He also approved of Kennedy’s cracking down on the exiles’ raids into Cuba. When asked how any kind of relaxation of tensions could occur, Castro replied that steps in that regard were already being taken. Howard wrote about this interview in an academic journal. In this article she was even more specific about what Castro had said. She wrote that he was willing to discuss the following: Soviet personnel and military hardware on Cuban soil, compensation for nationalized land and investments, and the question of Cuba as a launch pad for communist subversion in the Americas. 65 Howard urged the White House to send a quiet emissary to hear Castro out on even more specifics. Although Kennedy was attuned to doing so, the CIA was not. CIA Director McCone opposed Howard’s approach to Cuba and wrote “that no active steps be taken on the rapprochement matter at this time.” 66 McCone may have been influenced in this by Director of Plans, Richard Helms. On May 1, 1963 Helms produced a memo to McCone in which he recorded every step made by Castro to make a détente between the two former belligerents a reality. From McCone’s negative reaction we can see how Helms must have felt about this back channel.” — Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case by James DiEugenio a.co/084Yz6CC