Missile Gap controversy event
also: missile gap, missile gap information
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John F. Kennedyperson · 5CIAintelligence service · 5Richard Nixonperson · 4Soviet Unioncountry · 3Bay of Pigsoperation · 21968 United States presidential electionevent · 1Lyndon B. Johnsonperson · 1Vietnam Warevent · 1Dwight D. Eisenhowerperson · 1
Claims (2)
CIA covered_up
Missile Gap controversy book_quoted
“ammunition for his accusations against the missile gap that he exploited in a similar fashion, which again, of course, was classified information. And in reality, there was no such thing as a missile gap. I don't know what they're doing to …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 3:40
Dwight D. Eisenhower covered_up
Missile Gap controversy book_quoted
“The likelihood is that Kennedy was badly lied to by his CIA briefers, believing that he would be easier to control than Nixon. And that's from the author. I was just trying to summarize. The scope of how badly Kennedy was deceived is stagge…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 2 @ 5:44
Mentions (6)
▶ 3:09
Well, let's just go on. Back then, Nixon told friends the CIA had played politics with the Bay of Pigs operation, briefing candidate John Kennedy on it to the point where he was able to make a strong anti-Castro stand that Nixon couldn't be…
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ammunition for his accusations against the missile gap that he exploited in a similar fashion, which again, of course, was classified information. And in reality, there was no such thing as a missile gap. I don't know what they're doing to …
▶ 5:44
The likelihood is that Kennedy was badly lied to by his CIA briefers, believing that he would be easier to control than Nixon. And that's from the author. I was just trying to summarize. The scope of how badly Kennedy was deceived is stagge…
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and one invulnerable weapon, the Polaris. These nuclear weapons aboard U.S. Navy submarines were off the coast of the Soviet Union. In other words, the entire time that they're hyping the Soviet Union, there wasn't really a threat. We could…
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at the time, though the CIA estimate incorrectly said that they had 90 and 200 bombers capable of carrying those nuclear weapons, although none of their bombers had the ability to reach the United States at that given time. So they gave Ken…
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His vice president, Richard Nixon, understood the general's concerns as well. So, in 1960, the deep state thought Kennedy would be the one that they could easily manipulate. After being humiliated on the missile gap information and the chan…