Joe Califano person
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Joe Califano headed
Brigade 2506 documented
“Joseph Califano managed the project on behalf of the Secretary of the Army, Cyrus Vance. A special assistant, Califano was serious about the care and feeding of the Cuban brigade. Bobby or JFK was on the phone to Califano almost daily about…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 33:55
Joe Califano recruited
Alexander Haig documented
“On the army side, Califano employed two experienced lieutenant colonels, James Patchell for covert operations and Alexander Haig Jr. to take care of the brigade. Haig found officers who would have merited promotion in any army.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 34:30
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Comer had completed and cleared with the relevant civilian agencies a presidential directive designed to centralize the management of the pacification program in Washington under his direction. The State Department had put up a fight, but p…
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because of the debacle in Vietnam, repeatedly phoned the Secret Service to ask if Kennedy had died, pacing the floor for hours, phoned in hand, muttering, I've got to know, is he dead? Is he dead? Johnson also instructed his aide, Joseph Ca…
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proved very active, and Maxwell Taylor's special group made sure it stayed that way. Army civilian executive Joseph Califano Jr. came to think that Krulak's nickname, Brute, B-R-U-T-E, was well chosen. Richard Bissell had been an enthusiast…
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Joseph Califano managed the project on behalf of the Secretary of the Army, Cyrus Vance. A special assistant, Califano was serious about the care and feeding of the Cuban brigade. Bobby or JFK was on the phone to Califano almost daily about…
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and Bobby Kennedy had to knock the Navy into line. As had happened with Quintero during the missile crisis, exiles had disagreed with Califano's actions, often took their cases to Bobby. Okay, so this is the program we've talked about in ot…
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leading into Vietnam, which is why many of them ended up in Vietnam. Califano deputized for Vance, who almost never attended any of the meetings, was representing the Pentagon on the Cuba Coordination Committee. It was nominally chaired by …
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on this period, he decided that it was basically best characterized, he being Califano, Keystone cops. On February 18th, Vance and Califano, committee chair Sterling Cottrell and others met President Kennedy in the Oval Office. Colonel King…
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would be hashing out the issue. Both the CIA and Pentagon were present in force, Helms and Fitzgerald for the agency, Vance and Califano for the Department of Defense. McGeorge Bundy guarded the president's interest. Observers included Tom …
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Kennedy actually didn't mind. He said as long as the exiles stopped their incessant press conferences where they fought for credit in the U.S. Seems a bit odd. Bundy added that the special group had decided that the raids weren't worth the …
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oil refinery, and a sugar refinery. Within Califano's army office, Alexander Haig processed the paperwork and passed it along. Bundy Mett held the reins there too, apparently none too successfully since it seemed that at least five direct C…
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Desmond Fitzgerald briefed the intelligence board on the program in early September. This culminated in a series of contacts with Joe Califani's request in which Fitzgerald let out bits of the CIA story and asked for help. For some time, th…
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In July, Califano's office compiled a detailed analysis of where the secret warriors had been and what they needed to win. Presidential decisions back in April had given the military a wider support role. The August bombing raid, well equip…
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was attributed to Shackley's commando, Mambus, the fake thing. But the inertia level remained high in relations with the CIA, delicate between the Pentagon. On one occasion, Califano met Fitzgerald in a Miami hotel. Desmond opened the door,…
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When the Rockefeller Commission and the Church Commission investigated this affair in 1975, Joe Califano learned that his suspicions about why the CIA needed all of the biographical intelligence had been correct. Meanwhile, John Kennedy's s…
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For Joseph Califano, the consequence would be very painful on February 24th, 1964, with Ernesto Oliva, who made the last of many appeals to use the Cuban assault brigade against Castro. Oliva slumped in his chair when Califano rejected the …
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Cubans volunteered for the special Cuban program between 64 and 65. Oliva went to Thanksgiving dinner at Califano's home. Later, he returned to the U.S. Army Reserve, from which he had finally retired as a brigadier general. But the intenti…
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The Cuban operation began dying as sensitivity to the problems of control increased. Around the time Califano saw Oliva, Desmond Fitzgerald sent McComb a paper that went over the options. In March, Desmond Fitzgerald reported again on the s…