The Kennedy Men_ 1901-1963 - Laurence Leamer [523]
611 Castro was so successful: memorandum for the file, Washington, D.C., December 27, 1961, CIA, “Subject: Discussion with Attorney General Robert Kennedy,” FRUS.
611 “expressed skepticism …”: guidelines for Operation Mongoose, Washington, D.C., March 14, 1962, Department of State, S/S files: Lot 65 D 438, FRUS.
611 “Bobby came over almost…”: LL interview with Dino A. Brugioni.
612 “I don’t think …”: Dino A. Brugioni, Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1991), p. 69.
612 “If you’re going to …”: LL interview with Samuel Halpern.
613 By the end of July 1962: CIA Operations Officer for Operation Mongoose (Harvey) to Chief of Operations (Mongoose) Lansdale, memorandum, Washington, DC, July 24, 1962, NSC files, FRUS.
613 “Which one is Meredith?”: Branch, p. 648.
614 “Thousand Said Ready to Fight for Mississippi”: ibid., p. 653.
614 “I love our customs!”: ibid., p. 659.
614 “And now—Governor…”: RKHT, p. 320.
615 “I appreciate your interest…”: PRIUM, belt 4-A.
615 “should be Mandrake the Magician”: RKIHOW, p. 167.
616 “Mr. President, let me say …”: PRIUM, belt 4-A.
616 “I say I’m going to …”: PRIUM, belt 4-C.
616 Bobby gave him: Branch, p. 660.
616 “the orders of the court…”: ibid., p. 665.
617 “The attorney general announced today…”: PRIUM, audiotape 26.
617 “I knew that he …”: RKIHOW, p. 165.
618 “They better fire …”: PRIUM, audiotape 26.
618 “was the avoidance …”: RKIHOW, p. 160.
618 “Well, I think we’re gonna have …”: PRIUM, audiotape 26A.
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621 Kennedy had hurried: Saunders, p. 182.
621 “The South Korean army should have…”: conversation with General Douglas MacArthur, August 16, 1962, presidential recordings, tape 12, JFKPL.
621 “assess accurately…”: President’s Military Representative (Taylor) to President Kennedy, memorandum, Washington, D.C., August 17, 1962, NSC files, FRUS.
621 “noise level”: ibid.
622 “wondered whether…”: memorandum of conversation, Washington, DC, January 30, 1962, FRUS.
622 “wondered whether …”: ibid.
622-23 During a meeting: Press Secretary (Salinger) to President Kennedy, memorandum for the president, February 1, 1962, FRUS.
623 “At the time I called …”: Aleksei Adzhubei, report to Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, March 12, 1962, quoted in Fursenko and Naftali, p. 153.
623 new $133 million: ibid., p. 154.
623 Although historians debate: For varying analyses of the reasons, see Tony Judt, “On the Brink,” New York Review of Books, January 15, 1998, and Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow, eds., The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis, (1997), pp. 666-70.
623 “Tell Fidel…”: Fursenko and Naftali, p. 182.
623 Khrushchev would arrive: ibid.
624 “these developments…”: intelligence memorandum, OCI 3047/62, “Subject: Recent Soviet Military Aid to Cuba,” August 22, 1962, FRUS.
624 “the instantaneous commitment…”: memorandum of meeting with
President Kennedy, August 23, 1962, CIA, DCI (McCone) files, FRUS.
625 remained deeply suspicious: interview with Myer Feldman.
625 “ominous reports”: Fursenko and Naftali, p. 205.
625 “Put it back…”: Marshall Carter, memorandum, September 7, 1962, CIA, DCI (Dulles) files, FRUS.
625 “Goddamn it!”: Thomas, pp. 207-8. See also Fursenko and Naftali, pp. 193-94.
626 “suspect[ed] the presence …”: notes prepared by Acting Director of Central Intelligence Carter, September 6, 1962, CIA, NSC meeting, FRUS.
626 “Out of respect…”: Fursenko and Naftali, p. 209.
626 “These congressmen …”: telegram 616 from Moscow, September 7, 1962, FRUS.
627 Soviet plans were: Fursenko and Naftali, pp. 188, 217.
627 each probably carrying: Newsweek, May 14, 2001.
627 50,874 Soviet troops: ibid., p. 188.
627 double the number: ibid.
627 He wanted American pilots: ibid., p. 217.
628 “general impression …”: memorandum of Operation Mongoose meeting, October 4, 1962, FRUS.
628 “nothing was moving …”: ibid.
629 “over twenty times …”: Fursenko and Naftali, p. 217.
629 “The weapons that…”: ibid., p. 219.
629 “a quiet evening