No! Not the CIA!

The National Archives ended up making public only a fraction of the JFK documents last night.

Still, the 2,800 papers included in the new document dump confirm some salacious details of America's decades-long quest to kill or depose Fidel Castro — including a fairly shocking plan by the CIA to sow terror in Miami.

After Castro's revolution succeeded and thousands of Cubans fled to South Florida, the agency actually considered murdering a boatload of refugees, assassinating exile leaders, and planting bombs in Miami — all so Castro could be blamed for the chaos.

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The campaign was included in a report on "pretexts" the U.S. could conjure up to justify a military intervention in Cuba. The paper was sent by Gen. Edward Landsdale, a top Cold War officer who worked with the CIA to plot out Operation Mongoose; he sent the report, which included nine other "pretexts," on April 12, 1962, to Gen. Maxwell Taylor, who would soon become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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The Mongoose doc includes other frightening plots hatched by the spooks in Washington, including an idea to use biological weapons to ruin Cuba's crops, possibly leading to famine and an uprising against Castro.

  Miami New Times

Yeah, that sounds like the CIA I know.

As some astute readers have noted, much of the newly posted Mongoose details at the National Archive were already released as part of a plot called Operation Northwoods, which President Kennedy reviewed but rejected.

Oh. So they're releasing classified documents that provide informaiton already known about. That also sounds like the CIA I know.

The newly released papers include reports [describing] the CIA's willingness to collaborate with the Mob to oust the Communist leader.

So they didn't release the ones describing the CIA's willingness to collaborate with the Mob to kill Kennedy.

Don't blame me. If you don't like conspiracy theories, get the rest of the documents.

None of those details are particularly new — the wetsuit and seashell ideas were outlined in 1979 in a book about the CIA by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Powers.

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Americans will have to wait at least another six months to find out whether the hundreds of documents the CIA refused to include in yesterday's dump include any clues as to JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's deeper ties to intelligence agencies or the Soviet Union.

In the meantime, let's just be grateful the CIA decided not to blow up Miami in the name of going after Castro.

No, sorry. I'm not going to "be grateful" to the CIA for anything. It's a criminal, corrupt and ruthless organization that doesn't seem to be accountable to anyone. Do you think they didn't do other things just as horrible?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.