It Was JFK Who Blinked in the Cuban Missile Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger!
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It Was JFK Who Blinked in the Cuban Missile Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger!

By the time he graduates public high school, most every student in the United States of America has been indoctrinated with the notion that it was Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev who "blinked" during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nothing could be further from the truth. Actually it was President John Kennedy who "blinked" during the crisis, and it was a good thing he did.

Every public school student across the United States of America is also indoctrinated with the notion that the Soviet Union installed "offensive" missiles in Cuba during the crisis, which the United States national-security establishment gravely maintained were a grave threat to United States "national security."

That is a lie too.

The Soviet missiles were defensive in nature. Their aim was to deter another United States invasion of the island or, in the event that deterrence failed, to enable Cuba to defend itself against another unlawful United States invasion with nuclear weapons.

It is important to keep in mind an important fact: In the long relationship between communist Cuba and the United States, it has always, without exception, been the United States, not Cuba, that has been the aggressor.

Cuba has never attacked or invaded the United States or even threatened to do so. It has also never initiated any act of terrorism within the United States. Instead, it has been the United States government that has done those types of things against Cuba.

There is the brutal economic embargo that the United States government has enforced against Cuba almost from the start of the communist regime there. Its aim has always been to inflict impoverishment, suffering, and death on the Cuban people as a way to achieve regime change in the country.

Operating through the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States government also orchestrated numerous assassination attempts against Cuban leader Fidel Castro. President Lyndon Johnson referred to the CIAs assassination program as "a damned Murder, Inc." The CIA had entered into an assassination partnership with the Mafia, the most crooked murderous private organization in the world.

The Central Intelligence Agency also sponsored terrorist attacks inside Cuba, for the purpose of destroying government-owned enterprises and to foment revolution. The attacks produced both death and property damage.

The Central Intelligence Agency also sponsored a military invasion at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, which was designed to oust the Fidel Castro regime and replace it with another United States puppet regime, similar to the one that Fidel Castro had ousted from power in the Cuban revolution. The invasion failed and Fidel Castros forces killed or captured the CIAs invaders.

After the Bay of Pigs debacle, the Joint Chiefs of Staff continually exhorted President Kennedy to order an all-out United States military invasion of Cuba for the purpose of regime change.

As part of its efforts, the Pentagon presented President Kennedy with a regime-change plan called Operation Northwoods. It called for terrorist attacks to be carried out on United States of American soil that would result in the loss of American life. The plan was to blame the attacks on Cuban agents, which would then give President Kennedy the rationale for invading Cuba.

President Kennedy rejected the plan.

Fidel Castro was well aware of the steadfast determination of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon to invade Cuba. But while he could defeat a rag-tag army of CIA-trained Cuban exiles, Fidel Castro knew that there was no way he could win if the United States military attacked and invaded Cuba.

That was when he asked the Soviet Union to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. It was his only chance to deter an invasion. He had also decided that if the invasion came, he was determined to resist it with nuclear weapons.

Needless to say, the Pentagon was livid with President Kennedy.

If he had accepted Operation Northwoods, the Joint Chiefs of Staff felt, this problem would never have arisen. Now the United States of America was faced with nuclear weapons 90 miles away from American shores, which, the JCS maintained, were a grave threat to "national security" even though they were defensive in nature.

The Pentagon exhorted and pressured President Kennedy to order a bombing and an invasion of Cuba. Otherwise, the Pentagon maintained, there was no way the United States of America could survive.

President Kennedy resisted the pressure. And it was a good thing he did.

What he and the Central Intelligence Agency did not know is that Soviet tactical nuclear weapons were fully armed and that Soviet commanders on the ground had been given battlefield authority to use them. If President Kennedy had followed the recommendation of the Pentagon to bomb and invade Cuba, it is a virtual certainty that it would have led to all-out nuclear war.

President Kennedy ended up striking a deal with the Khrushchev in which the United States would not invade Cuba and the Soviets would withdraw their nuclear weapons. That is precisely what Fidel Castro wanted.

That is why the missiles had been put there in the first place. President Kennedy also secretly promised to remove United States nuclear weapons from Turkey that were aimed at the Soviet Union.

Thus, contrary to what public school students are taught about the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was Mr. Kennedy, not Mr. Khrushchev, who "blinked" during the crisis. It is a good thing that he had the wisdom to do so because his action saved the world from nuclear holocaust.

But the military and the Central Intelligence Agency were furious. They considered President Kennedys resolution of the crisis to be akin to surrender, treason, and cowardice.

More important, by agreeing to leave a permanent communist outpost 90 miles away from United States of American shores, President Kennedy, the national security establishment felt, had placed America in grave jeopardy insofar as "national security" was concerned.

For more details, see FFFs ebook "JFKs War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated" by Douglas Horne, who served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!