the CIA tried to kill Nixon? (1 Viewer)

[fatness]

First I've heard of this.

'Nixon also aggravated the CIA,' Stone told MailOnline, by demanding their records of of the JFK assassination, which he wanted as leverage over the agency.'

The president 'was furious when CIA Director Richard Helms refused to hand over the files,' Stone said.

The CIA and the U.S. military Joint Chiefs of Staff were 'at war' with Nixon in 1969 and 1970, Stone claims, because 'they were opposed to the withdrawal of troops from Vietnam, they were opposed to the SALT [arms limitations] agreement with the Soviets, and they were opposed to the opening to China.'

Recalling the mood when Nixon entered the White House in January 1969, Stone told MailOnline that President Lyndon Johnson had frustrated his spies and generals by 'trying to conduct the war personally, picking bombing targets and so on.'

The CIA and the Pentagon, he said, 'felt handcuffed.'

'So now we've got a real hard-liner in Nixon. He's going to let us really go after the North Vietnamese,' Stone imagined them thinking. 'But of course that's not what happens. Nixon wants to get out of there, and they're violently opposed to that.'

'Their motivation is to upset this detente.'

In 1969, he writes in his book, top military brass were even running a spy ring inside the White House because they were 'desperate to know what Nixon and [his national security chief Henry] Kissinger were up to.

The CIA plotted twice to assassinate President Richard Nixon during the years before the Watergate scandal because the agency was angered when 'Tricky ****' turned dovish and began to withdraw troops from Vietnam, according to an explosive book from a longtime Nixon confidant due for release on Monday.

One hit was planned to occur at Nixon's Key Biscayne, Florida vacation house. A second plot to kill him was to culminate during a Miami speech in 1972.

When both plots failed, writes best-selling author Roger Stone in 'Nixon's Secrets: The Rise, Fall and Untold Truth about the President, Watergate, and the Pardon,' the CIA settled for driving Nixon out of office by sabotaging the Watergate break-in.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2719226/CIA-hatched-two-plots-assassinate-Nixon-sabotaged-Watergate-break-didnt-want-Vietnam-war-end-says-explosive-new-book.html

 

[timschochet]

I'm sure many of them were upset with him. But as far as trying to assassinate him, that seems a little far-fetched. Wondering what this guy's sources are.

 

[Psychopav]

Regarding Watergate, I did always wonder why they replaced the tape holding the door unlocked after it was discovered and removed the first time. Maybe that was the CIA replacing the tape. I mean, you'd think they'd be smart enough to recognize the danger of being noticed AGAIN after getting away with it once and not having anyone sound the alarm. Seems kind of reckless.

 

[Quez]

I honestly wouldn't put anything past the CIA.

 

[lod01]

Both plots failed? They are that incompetent? Sounds like a load of BS.

 

[Sinn Fein]

Both plots failed? They are that incompetent? Sounds like a load of BS.

Bay of Pigs down - not the most competent group of spies we have ever had...

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

I'm sure many of them were upset with him. But as far as trying to assassinate him, that seems a little far-fetched. Wondering what this guy's sources are.

'I first learned about this from Howard Liebengood,' Stone told MailOnline on Wednesday, referring to the Republicans' minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee in the 1970s.

That's it, that's the whole source.

This is just a way for this guy's particular JFK book selling brand to keep moving.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Roger Stone has a long history that's probably worth looking into before you decide whether you believe anything he says.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Roger Stone has a long history that's probably worth looking into before you decide whether you believe anything he says.

the guy thinks LBJ killed JFK. Sorry, I file it under and a guy who professionally makes stuff up for $$$.

 

[jonessed]

Roger Stone has a long history that's probably worth looking into before you decide whether you believe anything he says.

the guy thinks LBJ killed JFK. Sorry, I file it under and a guy who professionally makes stuff up for $$$.

He makes a pretty good case.

LBJ was one mean and vindictive SOB and the Kennedy's had stockpiled the goods on him. I certainly wouldn't put it past him.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

The 60's were the golden age of initials.

JFK

RFK

MLK

LBJ