@BillRM,
Quote:your wife as an employee of that joke of an intelligence agency have no foundation to charge anyone with not having a clue.
Mighty tough on those you don't know, about an agency you have only the most superficial of knowledge about.
Just an attempt to instill a little fact for you to own (it'll be lonely bouncing around your brain pan if I succeed I know). CIA enters into no "plots" without the knowledge of POTUS. The ill conceived idea to bring down Castro was Eisenhower's idea after the relative easy way CIA had destabilized and brought down the Dominican Republic government at around the same time. Go to library and read once in a while.
You do know, don't you, that while the Russians had tactical nukes forty miles away from the US, the US had had tactical nukes on the Turkish border with Russia - and they were even more of them of higher yield - ever hear of "Minutemen Missile"? The big secret is that we removed them with no fanfare as a deal for USSR to remove their missiles from Cuba.
In the end it was a good thing.
The US and Russia ended up installing the "Hot Line" and tactical nuke deployment was reduced.
I also think my wife has a lot more insight to what happens in the agency and how it works than you do. Go self publish your little book. No one else on a planet of over 7 billion people gives a doodle about it.
