Final_Judgment

Chapter Nine
A Little Unpleasantness:
JFK's War With Israel's Allies at the CIA
JFK's battle with the CIA over the Bay of Pigs debacle
was just the beginning. By November of 1963, JFK was not
only fighting the CIA's Israeli allies over the nuclear bomb,
but he was also resisting efforts by the CIA to involve the
United States more deeply in Southeast Asia. In fact, JFK
planned to dismantle the CIA entirely—a move that would
threaten Israel's power base in official Washington.
At the same time, the CIA and the Mossad were also
engaged in efforts to undermine French President Charles
DeGaulle. In the end, the intrigue against DeGaulle would
prove to play a little-known but critical part in the JFK
assassination conspiracy.
In 1972 the Washington Observer newsletter published perhaps what
was one of the first hints—in print—that the Kennedy family itself
suspected that the CIA had a hand in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
According to the Observer, "Back in 1963, shortly after President
Kennedy's assassination, Robert F. Kennedy while he was still Attorney
General, conducted his own private investigation, which ran parallel with
the official inquiry into the assassination conducted by the Warren
Commission. Kennedy's investigation featured trips to this country by an
Inspector Hamilton, former Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard. Hamilton, an
old friend of Joseph P. Kennedy, had been retained by the attorney general to
help unravel the real truth about the murder of JFK.
"After long conferring with the members of the Kennedy family and
making a few discreet soundings with his own contacts, Hamilton zeroed on
the fact that the assassination of John Kennedy had occurred very shortly
after his brother Bobby had made some preliminary moves for direct
personal control of the CIA, whose leadership he blamed for the Bay of Pigs
fiasco.
"Hamilton, following the cui Bono ("whom does it benefit?")
reasoning, reached the conclusion that Bobby's move to seize control of the
CIA had something to do with the murder of his elder brother." 302
THE BAY OF PIGS
That the Bay of Pigs debacle was a major bone of contention between
the Kennedy brothers and the CIA is now very much a recognized part of
history. The bittnerness that developed between JFK and the CIA over the
failed attempt to invade Castro's Cuba was a serious point of conflict
between the president and the intelligence agency. The Bay of Pigs and its
aftermath was a sore spot between Kennedy and the CIA, but not the last. It
did, however, set in motion events leading to the final showdown between