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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 5, 2020 19:36:16 GMT -5
March 29, 1961:
In the Cabinet Room of the White House, Richard Bissell, representing the CIA, presents a progress report of Operation Zapata, the top-secret plan to invade Cuba.
According to Gaeton Fonzi in THE LAST INVESTIGATION, “the Bay Of Pigs plan provided . . . the historic opportunity for the CIA to begin domestic field operations on an unprecedented scale.”
“The Agency’s officers, contract agents, informants and contacts reached into almost every area of the community.” “The preparation for the Bay Of Pigs invasion gave birth to a special relationship between CIA operatives and the Cuban exiles. That relationship would intensify into a mutuality of interests which transcended even Presidential directives and official United States policy.”
Note:
Zapata oil Comp. One of the founders was George H. W. Bush
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 7, 2020 18:18:57 GMT -5
March 30, 1961:
Oswald enters the Russian Fourth Clinical Hospital for an adenoids operation.
Marina visits him daily. By the time he leaves the hospital he has asked her to be his fiancee and she has agreed to consider it.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 7, 2020 18:23:07 GMT -5
March 31, 1961:
Chester Bowles, appalled to learn of what he calls “the Cuban adventure” gives Dean Rusk a lengthy memorandum outlining his vigorous objections.
Rusk seems unmoved, and discourages Bowles from making his case directly to the President.
JFK does not see the memo. Jackie Kennedy and three-year-old daughter, Caroline, are spending the Easter holiday at the Kennedy estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
The Secret Service surveillance teams are closely monitoring a group of four Cubans living in Miami known to have close ties to pro-Castro activists in Havana.
One of the Cubans is heard to remark, “We ought to abduct Caroline Kennedy to force the United States to stop interfering with Cuba’s Castro government.
”The deputy chief of the Passport Office writes to the Consular Section of the State Department regarding LHO, stating: " ...this file contains information first, which indicates that mail from the mother of this boy is not being delivered to him and second, that is has been stated that there is an impostor using Oswald's identification data and that no doubt the Soviets would love to get hold of his valid passport, it is my opinion that the passport should be delivered to him only on a personal basis and after the Embassy is assured to its complete satisfaction that he is returning to the United States." Crossfire
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 9, 2020 15:58:39 GMT -5
April 1, 1961:
Oswald’s Diary: Apr: 1st-30
We are going steady and I decide I must have her, she puts me off so on April 15 I propose, she accepts.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 9, 2020 16:01:57 GMT -5
April 3, 1961:
Oswald’s Diary: April 3'
After a 7 day delay at the marraige beaure because of my unusual passport they allow us to regitra as man & wife two of Marinas girl friends act as bridesmaids.
We are married at her aunts home we have a dinner reception for about 20 friends and neboribor who wish us happiness (in spite of my origin and accept) which was in general rather disquiting to any Russian since for. are very rare in the soviet union even tourist.
After an evening of eating and drinking in which uncle Wooser started a fright and the fuse blow on an overloaded dircite.
We take our leave and walk the 15 minutes to hour home. We lived near each other.at midnight we were home.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 11, 2020 18:13:33 GMT -5
April 4, 1961:
In New Orleans, 8 years after he was ordered deported, Carlos
Marcello (Mafia boss, New Orleans) is finally ejected from the United States on orders from RFK.
This month, Life magazine calls JFK “the most accessible American President in memory” --
and runs a series of photographs documenting “the President’s expressions and moods during a
working day in the White House.”
On this day, a key meeting on Cuba is held by JFK during which he asks everyone
present whether they approve of the planned invasion.
Senator Fulbright denounces the entire
idea on the ground that is is inherently immoral.
Everyone else in the room, including Rusk;
McNamara, Adolf Berle, Thomas Mann, Bissell and Dulles appear to approve.
Berle, in fact, is highly enthusiastic: “I say, let ‘er rip!”
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 20, 2020 20:55:19 GMT -5
April 5, 1961:
On orders from RFK, Carlos Marcello, without luggage, and with little cash, is now temporarily stranded in Central America. He quickly regains his composure and soon, is installed in a plush suite at the Biltmore Hotel, as his brothers fly in cash and clothes.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 20, 2020 20:59:58 GMT -5
April 7, 1961:
Richard Bissell approves shipping weapons to Dominican conspirators who plan to kill Rafael Trujillo in the apartment of his mistress.
The weapons are shipped via diplomatic pouch.(The Bay of Pigs disaster will change everything.
The CIA will not want to risk another failure.
The agency will eventually prevail upon Henry Dearborn, the U.S. consul in Ciudad Trujillo, to try to dissuade the conspirators, but the plot will have picked up momentum and will not be braked.)
note:
Dictator Rafael Trujillo was born on October 24, 1891 in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic.
He became president of the Dominican Republic in 1930 through political maneuvering and torture.
He officially held the office until 1938, when he chose a puppet successor.
He resumed his official position from 1942 to 1952, but continued to rule by force until his assassination on May 30, 1961.
On the night of Tuesday, May 30, 1961, Trujillo was shot dead on Avenida George Washington.
He was ambushed in part by his personal bodyguard, who was also pressured to make his wife-to-be available to Truijillo.
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 24, 2020 17:48:37 GMT -5
April 9, 1961:
Fidel Castro appears on Havana TV warning,
“the extremely vigilant and highly-prepared Cuban people would repel any invasion attempt by the counterrevolutionaries now massing in Florida and Guatemala who are sponsored and financed by the United States.”
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Post by Paul Ernst on Apr 24, 2020 17:50:52 GMT -5
April 10, 1961:
The Internal Revenue Service files an $835,396 tax lien against Carlos Marcello and his wife.
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