JFK Was
A Traitor To The National Security State
JFK Was A Traitor To
The National Security State
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The Obsession With Russian Goes Back Decades
By Jacob G. Hornberger
May 27, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - Just consider
the accusations that have been leveled at the president:
- He has betrayed the
Constitution, which he swore to uphold.
- He has committed treason by
befriending Russia and other enemies of America.
- He has subjugated America’s
interests to Moscow.
- He has been caught in fantastic
lies to the American people, including personal ones, like his previous
marriage and divorce.
President Donald Trump?
No, President John F. Kennedy.
What lots of Americans don’t realize, because it was kept secret from
them for so long, is that what Trump has been enduring from the
national-security establishment, the mainstream press, and the American
right-wing for his outreach to, or “collusion with,” Russia pales compared to
what Kennedy had to endure for committing the heinous “crime” of reaching out
to Russia and the rest of the Soviet Union in a spirit of peace and friendship.
They hated him for it. They abused him. They insulted him. They
belittled him. They called him naïve. They said he was a traitor.
All of the nasties listed above, plus more, were contained in an
advertisement and a flier that appeared in Dallas on the morning of November
22, 1963, the day that Kennedy was assassinated. They can be read here and here.
Ever since then, some people have tried to make it seem like the
advertisement and flier expressed only the feelings of extreme right-wingers in
Dallas. That’s nonsense. They expressed the deeply held convictions of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, the conservative movement, and many people
within the mainstream media and Washington establishment.
In June 1963, Kennedy threw down the gauntlet in a speech he delivered
at American University, now entitled the “Peace Speech.” It was one of the most remarkable
speeches ever delivered by an American president. It was broadcast all across
the communist Soviet Union, the first time that had ever been done.
In the speech, Kennedy announced that he was bringing an end to the Cold
War and the mindset of hostility toward Russia and the rest of the Soviet Union
that the U.S. national-security establishment had inculcated in the minds of
the American people ever since the end of World War II.
It was a radical notion and, as Kennedy well understood, a very
dangerous one insofar as he was concerned. The Cold War against America’s World
War II partner and ally had been used to convert the United States from a
limited-government republic to a national-security state, one consisting of a
vast, permanent military establishment, the CIA, and the NSA, along with their
broad array of totalitarian-like powers, such as assassination, regime change,
coups, invasions, torture, surveillance, and the like. Everyone was convinced
that the Cold War — and the so-called threat from the international communist
conspiracy that was supposedly based in Russia — would last forever, which
would naturally mean permanent and ever-increasing largess for what Kennedy’s
predecessor, President Dwight Eisenhower, had called the
“military-industrial complex.”
Suddenly, Kennedy was upending the Cold War apple cart by threatening to
establish a relationship of friendship and peaceful coexistence with Russia,
the rest of the Soviet Union, and Cuba.
Kennedy knew full well that his actions were considered by some to be a
grave threat to “national security.” After all, don’t forget that it was
Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz’s outreach to the Soviets in a spirit of
friendship that got him ousted from power by the CIA and presumably targeted
for assassination as part of that regime-change operation. It was Cuban leader
Fidel Castro’s outreach to the Soviets in a spirit of friendship that made him
the target of Pentagon and CIA regime-change operations, including through invasion,
assassination, and sanctions. It was Congo leader’s Patrice Lamumba’s outreach
to the Soviets in a spirit of friendship that got him targeted for
assassination by the CIA. It would be Chilean President Salvador Allende’s
outreach to the Soviets in a spirit of friendship that got him targeted in a
CIA-instigated coup in Chile that resulted in Allende’s death.
Kennedy wasn’t dumb. He knew what he was up against. He had heard
Eisenhower warn the American people in his Farewell Address about the dangers
to their freedom and democratic way of life posed by the military
establishment. After Kennedy had read the novel Seven Days in May, which
posited the danger of a military coup in America, he asked friends in Hollywood
to make it into a movie to serve as a warning to the American people. In the
midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Pentagon and the CIA were exerting
extreme pressure on Kennedy to bomb and invade Cuba, his brother Bobby told a
Soviet official with whom he was negotiating that the president was under a
severe threat of being ousted in a coup. And, of course, Kennedy was fully
mindful of what had happened to Arbenz, Lamumba, and Castro for doing what
Kennedy was now doing — reaching out to the Soviets in a spirit of friendship.
In the eyes of the national-security establishment, one simply did not
reach out to Russia, Cuba, or any other “enemy” of America. Doing so, in their
eyes, made Kennedy an appeaser, betrayer, traitor, and a threat to “national
security.”
Kennedy didn’t stop with his Peace Speech. He also began negotiating a
treaty with the Soviets to end above-ground nuclear testing, an action that
incurred even more anger and ire within the Pentagon and the CIA. Yes, that’s
right — they said that “national security” depended on the U.S. government’s
continuing to do what they object to North Korea doing today — conducting
nuclear tests, both above ground and below ground.
Kennedy mobilized public opinion to overcome fierce opposition in the
military, CIA, Congress, and the Washington establishment to secure passage of
his Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
He then ordered a partial withdrawal of troops from Vietnam, and told
close aides that he would order a complete pull-out after winning the 1964
election. In the eyes of the U.S. national-security establishment, leaving
Vietnam subject to a communist takeover would pose a grave threat to national
security here in the United States.
Worst of all, from the standpoint of the national-security
establishment, Kennedy began secret personal negotiations with Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban leader Fidel Castro to bring an end to America’s
Cold War against them. That was considered to be a grave threat to “national
security” as well as a grave threat to all the military and intelligence largess
that depended on the Cold War.
By this time, Kennedy’s war with the national-security establishment was
in full swing. He had already vowed to tear the CIA into a thousand pieces and
scatter it to the winds after its perfidious conduct in the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
By this time, he had also lost all confidence in the military after it proposed
an all-out surprise nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, much as Japan had done
at Pearl Harbor, after the infamous plan known as Operation Northwoods, which
proposed terrorist attacks and plane hijackings carried out by U.S. agents
posing as Cuban communists, so as to provide a pretext for invading Cuba, and
after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the military establishment accused him of
appeasement and treason for agreeing not to ever invade Cuba again.
What Kennedy didn’t know was that his “secret” negotiations with the
Soviet and Cuban communists weren’t so secret after all. As it turns out, it
was a virtual certainty that the CIA (or NSA) was listening in on telephone
conversations of Cuban officials at the UN in New York City, much as the CIA
and NSA still do today, during which they would have learned what the president
was secretly doing behind their backs.
Kennedy’s feelings toward the people who were calling him a traitor for
befriending Moscow and other “enemies” of America? In response to the things
that were said in that advertisement and flier about him being a traitor for
befriending Russia, he told his wife Jackie on the morning he was assassinated:
“We are heading into nut country today.” Of course, as he well knew, the nuts
weren’t located only in Dallas. They were also situated throughout the U.S.
national-security establishment.
For more information, attend The Future of Freedom Foundation’s one-day
conference on June 3, 2017, entitled “The National Security State and JFK” at the Washington Dulles Marriott
Hotel.
Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom
Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in
economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the
University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also
was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and
economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director
of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education.
This article was first published by The Future of Freedom Foundation -
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