What About Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency Aggression Against Cuba? by Jacob G. Hornberger
(2022-03-23 at 00:12:48 )

What About Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency Aggression Against Cuba? by Jacob G. Hornberger

While the mainstream media and United States of American statists remain transfixed on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is difficult not to notice their moral blindness with respect to the evil and hypocrisy of the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, which have spent years ginning up this deadly and destructive crisis as part of their political gamesmanship against Russia.

After all, let us face it: When it was the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency invading Iraq and Afghanistan, the reaction of the mainstream media and United States of American statists was totally opposite to how they have responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. During those deadly and destructive invasions, there was hardly ever any sympathy for the victims and instead accolades, praise, and glorification of the invaders. Do not forget the daily mantra that everyone was exhorted to recite, "Support the troops!"

But let us leave Iraq and Afghanistan aside and let us go back to the early 1960s, when the CIA and the Pentagon were doing everything they could, including committing fraud, to induce President Kennedy to invade Cuba, which is every bit as sovereign and independent as Ukraine.

Let us begin with a recent statement by United States State Department spokesman Ned Price, who was expressing the official position of the Pentagon and the CIA.

Mr. Price stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to violate "core principles," including "the principle that each and every country has a sovereign right to determine its own foreign policy, has a sovereign right to determine for itself with whom it will choose to associate in terms of its alliances, its partnerships, and what orientation it wishes to direct its gaze."

Mr. Price was referring to Ukraines "right" to join NATO, the corrupt bureaucratic dinosaur that should have gone out of existence at the ostensible end of the Cold War. Mr. Prices statement confirms, of course, the point I have long been making - that the war in Ukraine is not about freedom, it is about NATO.

Keep Mr. Prices statement in mind as we go back to the height of the Cold War and see how the Pentagon and the CIA were hell-bent on doing to Cuba what Russia is now doing to Ukraine.

That is what the Central Intelligence Agencys invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba was all about - an effort to invade the island for the sake of ousting the Castro regime from power and replacing it with another corrupt and brutal United States puppet dictatorship, such as that of Fulgencio Batista, the brutal pro-United States dictatorial puppet that the Cuban revolution succeeded in ousting from power.

But that is not all there is to the Bay of Pigs story.

As I detail in my new book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, the Pentagon and the CIA were engaged in political gamesmanship against President Kennedy, who the CIA considered to be a neophyte president who could easily be manipulated into ordering an invasion of Cuba, one that would have been no different from Russias invasion of Ukraine.

The CIA told President Kennedy that its invasion would succeed without direct United States military air and ground support. It was a lie - a deliberate, knowing, intentional lie. The CIA was just playing and maneuvering what they considered was an easily manipulable president. The CIA figured that once the invasion began faltering, President Kennedy would have no choice but to send in air support, followed by a full-scale military invasion of Cuba. The Pentagon played its part in the fraudulent scheme by falsely telling President Kennedy that the invasion had a high chance of success, when, in fact, the Pentagon knew otherwise.

In other words, the Pentagon and the CIA, who are both pontificating in righteous tones about Russias invasion of Ukraine, were manipulating a United States president into doing to Cuba precisely what Russia is now doing to Ukraine.

President Kennedy refused to fall for the scheme and the CIAs invasion went down to ignominious defeat at the hands of the communists, which is one big reason why the Pentagon and the CIA still maintain their brutal economic embargo against the Cuban people to this day. They have never forgotten or forgiven their defeat at the hands of the Cuban Reds.

Unfortunately, that was not the end of the story. After the CIAs fraudulent fiasco at the Bay of Pigs, the Pentagon began exhorting President Kennedy to undertake a full-scale military invasion of Cuba - yes, the same type of military invasion that Russia has undertaken against Ukraine.

This was when the Pentagon presented Kennedy with one of the most infamous plans in United States history, one based on falsehoods and fraud. It was called Operation Northwoods.

The Pentagon succeeded in keeping it secret from the United States of American people for some 30 years. It was uncovered in the 1990s by the Assassination Records Review Board, the entity that was charged with securing the release of JFK-assassination related records from the military, the CIA, the Secret Service, and the FBI, which had succeeded in encasing the assassination in "national security" rubric.

Operation Northwoods called for real terrorist attacks against United States of American citizens, in which Americans would die. The attacks (and murders) would be carried out by Pentagon agents secretly posing as Cuban communists. The president would then use those attacks as a pretext for invading Cuba - an invasion no different from what Russia is now doing to Ukraine.

To his everlasting credit, and to the ire and rage of the military establishment, President John F. Kennedy rejected Operation Northwoods.

His relationship with the military did not improve when he walked out of a meeting in which the military was endorsing a plan to initiate a surprise full-scale nuclear attack on Russia, similar to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but with carpet bombing using nuclear bombs. That was when JFK stated in disgust as he left the meeting, "And we call ourselves the human race."

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Pentagon was doing everything it could to pressure President Kennedy into ordering a full-scale bombing and military invasion of Cuba to retaliate for Cubas installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. The Pentagon and the CIA took the position that Cuba did not have the "right" to do that.

Let us revisit State Department spokesman Ned Prices pontifical words with respect to Ukraine: "the principle that each and every country has a sovereign right to determine its own foreign policy, has a sovereign right to determine for itself with whom it will choose to associate in terms of its alliances, its partnerships, and what orientation it wishes to direct its gaze."

Whoops! Well, except for Cuba!

To President Kennedys everlasting credit, he refused to succumb to the Pentagons pressure to invade Cuba. In fact, by this time he held the military-intelligence establishment in deep disdain, and, of course, the feeling was mutual. To the rage of the Pentagon and the CIA, President Kennedy struck a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev in which he vowed that there would be no more United States invasions of Cuba by either the Pentagon or the CIA.

Adding insult to injury, in a secret codicil to the agreement, President Kennedy promised to remove the Pentagons nuclear missiles in Turkey that were aimed at the Soviet Union. Yes, you read that right: The Pentagon and the CIA claimed that Cuba had no "right" to install nuclear missiles in Cuba while maintaining that the Pentagon and the CIA had the "right" to install nuclear missiles in Turkey aimed at the Soviet Union.

That is one reason why the Pentagon and the CIA knew that Russia would invade Ukraine when NATO threatened to absorb Ukraine. The absorption would enable the Pentagon and the CIA to install their nuclear missiles on Russias border. The Pentagon and the CIA knew that Russias reaction to that possibility would be no different from the Pentagons and the CIAs reaction to the installation of Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Needless to say, neither the Pentagon nor the CIA has ever apologized for their Cold War machinations against both President Kennedy and Cuba. That, of course, is not surprising. The reaction of their Operation Mockingbird assets in the mainstream press is also not surprising.

What is disappointing, however, is how so many United States of Americans refuse to acknowledge, criticize, and condemn this manifest evil and rank hypocrisy within their own country. As I point out in my book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, that is because all too many Americans, unfortunately, have come to view the national-security establishment as their god.

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