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Claims (21)
Richard Goodwin worked_for
John F. Kennedy documented
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“Asked if he had ever been told anything about CIA efforts to assassinate Castro Richard Goodwin Assistant Special Counsel to the President replied 'No I never heard of such a thing.…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.134
Richard Goodwin proposed
Operation Mongoose documented
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“On November 2 1961 Goodwin had addressed an 'eyes only' memorandum to the President and the Attorney General outlining a suggested organization for what became the MONGOOSE operation…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.152
Richard Goodwin proposed
Tad Szulc documented
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“The memorandum stated 'As for propaganda I thought we might ask Tad Szulc to take a leave of absence from the Times and work on this one...'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.152
John F. Kennedy met_with
Richard Goodwin documented
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“Goodwin recalled that after President Kennedy asked Szulc for his reaction to the suggestion that Castro be assassinated…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.153
Richard Goodwin worked_with
Edward Lansdale documented
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“Goodwin and Lansdale worked closely with Robert Kennedy…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.153
Richard Goodwin worked_with
Robert F. Kennedy documented
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“Goodwin and Lansdale worked closely with Robert Kennedy who took an active interest in this preparatory stage…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.153
Richard Goodwin proposed
Robert F. Kennedy documented
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“Goodwin advised the President that Robert Kennedy "would be the most effective commander of the proposed operation…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.153
Henry Dearborn met_with
Richard Goodwin documented
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“While in Washington Dearborn met with State Department personnel and with Richard Goodwin and Arthur Schlesinger of the White House staff…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.224
Richard Goodwin worked_for
Trump administration documented
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“Richard Goodwin of the White House staff had also received prior to May 16 a CIA memorandum…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.224
McGeorge Bundy met_with
Richard Goodwin documented
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“On May 15 1961 Bundy forwarded to Goodwin another memorandum…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.225
Henry Dearborn met_with
Richard Goodwin documented
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“A copy of Dearborn's cable of May 16 1961 requesting urgent State Department guidance was forwarded to Richard Goodwin…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.226
Richard Goodwin met_with
Chester Bowles documented
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“This State Department draft was forwarded to Under Secretary Bowles with the comment that Goodwin considered it 'too negative'…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.226
Richard Goodwin met_with
Henry Dearborn documented
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“Richard Goodwin personally prepared alternate drafts to the proposed State Department cable to Dearborn…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.226
Richard Goodwin worked_for
United States documented
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“It was the twofold intent of the cable as revised by Goodwin... to avoid any action which might further involve the United States in the anticipated assassination…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.227
Richard Goodwin met_with
Tadeusz Szulc documented
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“In early November 1961 Szulc was asked by Richard Goodwin then Special Assistant to President Kennedy to meet with Attorney General Robert Kennedy on November 8 1961 to discuss the situation in Cuba…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.338
Richard Goodwin met_with
John F. Kennedy documented
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“On November 9 1961 Szulc accompanied by Goodwin met with President Kennedy for over an hour in the Oval Office…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.338
Richard Goodwin founded
Operation Mongoose documented
“The Church Committee report says in November 1962, the proposal for a new covert action program to overthrow Castro was developed. The president's assistant, Richard Goodwin, and General Edward Lansdale, there's that twit again, who was exp…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 59:44
Richard Goodwin funded
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“blaming the U.S. government for not providing enough support. Drafted by Kennedy aide Richard Goodwin, who had tried to get JFK on the telephone the night before but found him asleep, the statement went out, further enraging Nixon. At their…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 45:52
John F. Kennedy appointed
Richard Goodwin book_quoted
“The intent to get rid of Castro, the CIA strove to rebuild its covert capability against Cuba. The agency had a new proposal within a month of the failure. That summer, the president put aide Richard Goodwin in charge of a group to review p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 6:12
Richard Goodwin met
Che Guevara book_quoted
“a sea resort in Uruguay, Richard Goodwin, who had promised to end the economic disparity between the Americas, we talked about him yesterday or the day before, met the man sworn to hold Goodwin to that promise. By the time the conference ar…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 20:49
Richard Goodwin spied_on
Che Guevara book_quoted
“Goodwin, the whole iteration of this was that Goodwin had actually met with Che Guevara. According to Goodwin, Che Guevara warned him that there would be either a leftist revolution or a rightist coup leading to leftist takeover, and that t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 25:21
Mentions (25)
▶ 59:44
The Church Committee report says in November 1962, the proposal for a new covert action program to overthrow Castro was developed. The president's assistant, Richard Goodwin, and General Edward Lansdale, there's that twit again, who was exp…
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the political acumen to build a bridge to the different coalitions. When Ernesto Che Cavera went to Uruguay for a conference of the Organization of American States, Quadros invited him to stop in Brazil. At the conference in a sea resort in…
▶ 23:50
who had promised to end the economic disparity between the Americas, we talked about him yesterday or the day before, met the man sworn to hold Goodwin to that promise. By the time the conference arrived, relations between the U.S. and Cuba…
▶ 24:19
to receive in his hotel room a mahogany box inlaid with a Cuban seal of their prized cigars. The note accompanying the cigars read, since I have no greeting card, I have to write. Since I have to write to an enemy is difficult. I limit myse…
▶ 24:49
brought the cigars back to the White House and offered them to the president, who opened the box and took one out and started smoking one. Goodwin would later write that President Kennedy said of the incident that he probably should have ma…
▶ 25:21
Goodwin, the whole iteration of this was that Goodwin had actually met with Che Guevara. According to Goodwin, Che Guevara warned him that there would be either a leftist revolution or a rightist coup leading to leftist takeover, and that t…
▶ 25:55
Writing two years before the election of Salvador Allende in Chile, Goodwin added, none of this has come to pass. Well, they're not going to ever allow that through any opportunity that they have because they destabilize countries first and…
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to Goodwin, according to him, including a promise to pay for U.S. property in Cuba that had been expropriated. It was not an intractable foe of the U.S. who left the conference and stopped in Brazil. So Che Guevara was there to offer an oli…
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climatic phase of a series of televised debates between the candidate, Nixon denounced Castro in a speech, declared his patience exhausted, and advocated for a quarantine of Cuba. The Cuba issue resounded in the debates in which Nixon paint…
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complex nevertheless furnished Maxwell Taylor's committee a full readout on Cuba. According to the CIA, the anti-Castro political groups were becoming more realistic, though Miro Codona being subsidized to the tune of $90,000 a month, $90,0…
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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…
▶ 9:41
going to be pushed around by a reporter. Goodwin sent the president a memo at the beginning of November that analyzed the idea that the only effective way to handle an all-out attack was an all-out attack on the Cubans. Goodwin believed, as…
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taking Tracy Barnes' suggestion for deliberations of his task force. Goodwin then had an uncanny encounter with Shea Cavera at a Latin American conference in Uruguay that summer, at which Shea had thanked the Kennedy man for the Bay of Pigs…
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Famous last words. Either the CIA would unseat Castro or it would end up with a stronger underground, better propaganda and a clearer idea of Castro's power. Yeah, that's a certain win somehow because you're not spending your own money doin…
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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…
▶ 15:18
Robert McNamara and Bobby Kennedy sat in on the meeting. A Goodwin note on November 22nd indicates that the secret warrior had already put his thoughts on paper. When Maxwell Taylor convened the special group the same day, he said that Edwa…
▶ 24:21
something not evident to the Cuban agents left to flap in the wind as Castro's security services hunted them down. Records of the CIA director's morning staff meetings indicated the agency began planning new activities for Cuba within a wee…
▶ 24:31
Once established in the White House, President Kennedy gave substance to the initiative and sent a delegation to the Inter-American Gathering in Uruguay. This same conference became the setting for the confrontation already recounted betwee…
▶ 24:17
but on Bobby Kennedy, whom he blamed, not without reason, for isolating and diminishing him. Bobby symbolizes everything Johnson hated, observed Kennedy's aide, Richard Goodwin, who later worked in the Johnson White House. He became the sym…
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In March of 1961, it was a massive foreign aid program for Latin America designed to stimulate economic growth, redistribute wealth, and promote democratic governments in the region. They don't want democratic governments in that region. Th…
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And the White House officials made no secret that the program was designed to not only counter Castro's revolutionary appeal in the area, but to sideline corporate interests that were exploiting the impoverished. Goodwin began pushing a var…
▶ 1:02:06
and offering U.S. government financing to state-run oil companies. Even if Standard Oil and David Rockefeller objected, added Kennedy's Young Turk, soon enough the corporate pushback, along with the inevitable Republican Party and media fir…
▶ 1:02:34
that he thought private enterprise had a bad connotation in Latin America because it was associated with U.S. imperialism, unquote. And it was. Under increasing political pressure, JFK finally caved on Goodwin, transferring him from the All…
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Dulles was particularly disturbed by the inquest. It was a methodical dissection of the report's weaknesses that had begun as Epstein's master thesis at Cornell. To their little regret, some commission staff members had cooperated with Epst…