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Arthur Gardner, the American Ambassador to Cuba, referred to Castro as a communist
terrorist, and he was replaced by Earl E. T. Smith, who, instead of being briefed by Gardner, was
briefed by Herbert Matthews. A Senate Committee investigation of William A. Wieland, who in
1957 became the State Department’s Caribbean representative, said that he “regularly
disregarded, sidetracked or denounced FBI, State Department and military intelligence sources
which branded Castro as a Communist.” Robert Hill, Ambassador to Mexico, said under oath in
a Senate hearing: “Individuals in the State Department, and individuals in the New York Times,
put Castro in power.” These individuals included Robert McNamara, Theodore C. Sorenson,
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Roy Rubottom, McGeorge Bundy, J. William Fulbright, and Roger
Hilsman.
After being asked to abdicate, by Eisenhower, Batista left office on December 31, 1958; and
Castro took control of the country in January, 1959. Later that year, he addressed a meeting of
the CFR at their New York headquarters.
Soon, Castro revealed his alliance with Russia, nationalized all business and industry. On
October 20, 1960, Kennedy said: “We must attempt to strengthen the non-Batista democratic
anti-Castro forces in exile, and in Cuba itself who offer eventual hope of overthrowing Castro.”
After the U.S. broke diplomatic ties with Cuba on January 3, 1961, an invasion force was
organized, financed, and trained in Florida and Guatemala, by the State Department and the
Central Intelligence Agency, who recruited from the thousands of Cubans who had fled to the
U.S. to get away from Castro.
On April 17, 1961, an anti-Castro force of 1,400 landed at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba to begin
the invasion. Within striking distance, were two U.S. carriers, five World War II Liberty ships,
and other support vessels, whose decks were loaded with planes. About 500 miles away, a group
of B-26’s waited. Kennedy had promised air support, but it never came.
Years later, after it was revealed that both John and Bobby Kennedy had sexual relationships
with Marilyn Monroe, it was reported that she had threatened to expose them, and referred to her
“diary of secrets.”
According to an August 3, 1962 C.I.A. memo that was released under the Freedom of
Information Act, information procured from phone taps of conversations with reporter Dorothy
Kilgallen and her close friend, Howard Rothberg; as well as with Marilyn Monroe and Attorney
General Robert Kennedy, revealed the following:
1) Rothberg discussed the apparent comeback of subject with Kilgallen and the break up
with the Kennedys. Rothberg told Kilgallen that she was attending Hollywood parties
hosted by the “inner circle” among Hollywood’s elite and was becoming the talk of the
town again. Rothberg indicated in so many words, that she had secrets to tell, no doubt
arising from her trists with the President and the Attorney General. One such “???”
mentions the visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things
from outer space. Kilgallen replied that she knew what might be the source of the visit.
In the mid-fifties Kilgallen learned of secret effort by US and UK governments to
identify the origins of crashed spacecraft and dead bodies, from a British government
official. Kilgallen believed the story may have come from the ??? in the late forties.
Kilgallen said that if the story is true, it could cause terrible embarrassment to Jack and
his plans to have NASA put men on the moon.
2) Subject repeatedly called the Attorney General and complained about the way she was
being ignored by the President and his brother.