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[Kennedy ordered go, and there followed a week of planes bombing with false Cuban markings to make it look like the planes were piloted by defecting pilots and tanks landing and the sad loss of many many Cuban and some American lives.]
APR 21, 1961: At a press conference President Kennedy accepts responsibility for the failed invasion: “There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. What matters,” he says, is only one fact, “I am the responsible officer of the government.”
[Media featured a Kennedy admitting to military defeat but not to international crimes and the attempt to deceive that the files graphically describe, which continued to be ignored in media.]
JUN 6, 1961: Insisting on "indemnification" for the invasion, and refusing to negotiate for the release of prisoners by cable; Castro suggests that either Eleanor Roosevelt or Milton Eisenhower meet with him in Havana.
On November 30, 1961, after replacing the CIA Director Allen Dulles with John Alex McCone, President Kennedy authorizes another aggressive covert assault on the Cuban Republic codenamed Operation Mongoose. The CIA Brigadier General Edward G. Lansdale, under the guidance of Attorney General Robert Kennedy, directs the operation. The CIA creates an organization under its control, the Special Group Augmented (SGA),
OCT 4, 1962: Robert Kennedy in a SGA meeting states that the President was concerned" more priority should be given to trying to mount Operation Mongoose sabotage operations”
[So a year before his assassination, Kennedy was still directing covert criminal acts of violence against Cuba.]
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