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right after the Bay of Pigs, very few people know this
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l participated in drawing up National Security Memo 55, 56, 57.
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These are documents classified top secret.
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In them, Kennedy told Gen. Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
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that from here on, the Joint Chiefs would be wholly
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responsible for all covert paramilitary action in peacetime.
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This ended the reign of the CIA.
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"Splintered it into 1,000 pieces," as JFK promised he would.
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And now he was ordering the military to help him do it. Unprecedented!
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I can't tell you the shock waves this sent along the corridors of power.
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This and the firing of Allen Dulles ,Richard Bissell and Gen. Charles Cabell.
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All were sacred cows in Intel since World War II.