This plan was entirely under the direction of the
director of the CIA, director John McCome. McCome was in direct communication
with the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, Lyman Lemnitzter, who was the
head of the US military. The existing power in the US military at that time
were closely associated with the victories in WW2 and were firm believers in
military solutions. The White House political solutions had changed dramatically
with the election of a social democrat from the previous president, Eisenhower.
This change would have dramatic effects throughout JFK's White House period.
The
invasion by the Cuban exiles into Cuba was to be called "The Bay of Pigs" There
was several inherent problems with the Bay of Pigs, from the very conception,
that would cause it's ultimate demise.
1) The operation was to be kept a top
secret, but very early on this was not the case. Many of the Cuban exiles in
Miami were related to those taking military training in Guatemala and this
information ultimately fell into Castro's hands, as family chatter was made
known to him.
2) The operation was to use outdated WW2 aircraft such as the B26
twin engine bomber. The world had changed a lot since WW2 and jets were common
since the Korean war. These outdated aircraft were simply shot out of the air by
the Cuban airforce and anti air craft fire. The White House issued an umbrella operation (to protect the exile army) which only included 6 older fighters, but
these were soon dispensed with by the Cuban's.
3) The location of the invasion
was a swampy and muddy area that extended well before any exile army could reach
the beaches. The movement of a landing army and it's equipment into a muddy
swamp is not ideal when any moment lost to attaining the beaches is a moment
that causes death and destruction. The other problem with the location is that
it was further from Miami than needed to be.
4) The biggest problem was the
White House would not allow any direct US military involvement. The exile army was
on it's own.
5) The next biggest problem was the exile army could only muster
1400 men, and a number of them never reached the beaches, as their transports
were destroyed.
6) The next biggest problem was the Cuban army. The Cuban army
was a well trained, highly motivated, and well equipped army that could access any
part of Cuba in a matter of hours. Cuba is a small country and any invasion can
be easy and quickly reached. Castro knew this and launched an attack on the
invasion force with over 20,000 men. His army in a matter of hours completely
crushed the Cuban exiles.
So the question is and has always been, why was this
operation ever approved, when the success of the operation was ZERO. This
operation was a complete embarrassment to the US military and the CIA. The White
House administration was sending a clear signal to the CIA, the US military
complex, the Pentagon and to the Cuban refugees in Miami that the US was not
going to be involved with retaking Cuba as an American territory and controlled
by the Mafia. This failure at the Bay of Pigs would demonstrate to those Cubans
exiled in Miami that their efforts to regain Cuba were futile.
This did not sit
well with the establishment. The Vice President LBJ hated the Kennedys. They were
rich, influential, well educated and travelled in circlers he could only dream
of. LBJ was from a poor Texas family. Poverty and class were not his biggest
grips against them. He hated their social ideology that was bringing huge
changes to America. This hatred would build as the Viet Nam conflict approached.
It was John McCome that never forgave JFK for destroying his "Bay of Pigs " plan by not allowing US military involvement in the action. This defeat left him totally embarrassed, and he sought revenge. Those of wealth and power are always victimized by those closest to them. The fox becomes the snake.
It was John McCome that was tight lipped at the Warren Commission and was quickly supporting the lone shooter theory. Years later some CIA documents were
declassified , and the spy agency acknowledges what others were convinced of long ago: that McCone and other senior CIA officials were “complicit” in keeping “incendiary” information from the Warren Commission.
J. McCome had a ghost CIA agent named Tracy Barnes who was a long time military/agent that was directly involved with what was called the executive action. The executive action was an clandestine operation that eliminated foreign leaders that were deemed a threat to the security of the US. (Including the US President) One such executive action was the removal of Castro. This action was approved by then president Eisenhower in March of 1960. Tracy Barnes was directly related to this action, and he was not someone you messed with. He was to be taken as a serious person. The mere mention of his name was a threat J. McCome used him to carry out his assassination of JFK. There is no real identifiable picture of Barnes.
Tracy Barnes was simply the CIA's political assassin, a sociopath killer..
Just 2 days after the killing of the US president the prime suspect was murdered by Jack Ruby. Jack Ruby was a Jewish pimp that ran a local nightclub. He was also terminally ill, and would die in prison.
The question is why would Ruby push through a police escort, that were moving Oswald to a county prison and shoot Oswald to death? How did Ruby know the exact time and location of the escorted transfer of Oswald?
John McCome had to silence Oswald before he could testify, and therefore used Ruby who was terminally ill, to do the act. The CIA also knew the exact time and location to commit the murder and informed Ruby. Ruby knew he was dying and had nothing to loose as he was possibly facing drug trafficking charges so he cut a deal. What the deal entailed no one alive knows, except for Barnes who was there to cut the deal. As reported by a CIA field agent, Barnes was in Dallas.
Ruby did make one comment while in custody. "no one will ever know the truth."
Within 5 years Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin L. King would all be assassinated for their
views on social changes in America. They were all assassinated for the same reason JFK was murdered and by the same people. All these murders were connected.
Somewhere in that Ambassador Hotel in California in 1968, Tracy Barnes was in the crowd with a loaded gun. The CIA assassin.
Barnes always had a cover shooter, to cover his shots and allow him to slip away. With the aid of the CIA agents he is able to quickly leave the seen, unnoticed. Then later the J. McCome will support a single shooter. Well planned and unnoticed.
This allowed the old generation of politics to regain the power and position in America, which would eventually send troops to Viet Nam.
