Tad Szulc person
also: Sluck, Sluke, Sluz, Sluzly, Tad Slack, Tad Slog, a journalist, the reporter, Tad Scholesly
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Tad Szulc exposed
Operation Tropic documented
“in Costa Rica, was covering an OAS conference. He learned of the CIA project from his Cuban friends. Dissuaded from writing a story, again, once he checked with the State Department, he stayed interested, started asking questions. On Octobe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 20 (21) @ 19:21
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The activities there and the operational name of the compound in Guatemala, the increased activities at that plantation, and the close cooperation of U.S. officials in Guatemala and Panama made official connections impossible to deny. By la…
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with his brother Bobby, discussing command operations inside Cuba. According to a journalist, Don Bonning, the impetus may have come from the outside, from a reporter, Tad Slack. I don't know how you say his last name. S-Z-U-L-E. Sluzly? Sl…
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He had been running around Washington lobbying for renewed covert operations, even telling a friend, diplomat Robert Hertwich, that he hoped to see the president. He did in fact see JFK. How much of this was a result of that, how much was K…
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Goodwin helped the reporter in his quest to see administration higher ups. Over a period of the next few days in early November, Sluck met with both Bobby and Jack Kennedy. His meeting with the president is reported to have been at the sugg…
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had excellent contacts in Cuba, and had proven himself an acute observer. That summer, he had reported through author Schlesinger a private conversation with Castro after the Bay of Pigs. The only other person present at his Oval Office cha…
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to make it impossible for the agency to construct another operation like the Bay of Pigs. He said something about setting up a special group on Cuba. Kennedy leaned forward in his chair, quote, what would you think if I ordered Castro to be…
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Kennedy said he had only been testing him. He felt the same way, but he had been under terrible pressure to go ahead and do just that. The US, the president said, morally must not be a party to assassinations. The reporter made no use of th…
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And the problem is, because we don't trust the CIA, we have no idea which ones those are. Because these CIA people have no problem telling them to go ahead and do something with basically plausible deniability to later on and say, no, they …