J. C. King Quotes
Thorough consideration should be given to the elimination of Fidel Castro
This was the first American initiative for the assassination of Fidel Castro.
Oliver G. Galbond, 1900–1977, (J. C. King), Army Colonel & Chief, Western Hemisphere Division, CIA, CIA Memorandum, December 11, 1959
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This advice made Kennedy more amenable to the Central Intelligence Agency plan and recommendation later for the Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba. Eisenhower was not endorsing the Cia plan for the Bay of Pigs—just opining on the desirability of overthrowing the Castro government.
In April of 1962, President Kennedy convened a meeting of top advisors at the State Department to discuss the proposed CIA plan for the invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. The senator was the lone dissenter from the plan:
talks toward normalizing relations with Cuba One of the many alternative theories about the assassination of President Kennedy, was that it was done by fanatic Cubans who resented Kennedy for not sending more military assets to support the Bay of Pigs operation, for not supporting the Cuban militants to make another invasion attempt. If they had found out that Kennedy was secretly negotiating with Castro, they would have seen this as a betrayal. Attwood had secretly met with the Cuban Government Representatives and was to have briefed President Kennedy, but the president was assassinated first. His death ended the mission to normalize Cuban relations, so if that was the motivation for an assassination, the Cuban exiles might have been successful in derailing relations with Cuba. However, there has been no direct evidence found for this speculative theory.
In his early days as a revolutionary he was tried and jailed for an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Batista dictatorship of Cuba:
A major fan base for the Miami teams were Cuban Americans who react badly to any statement that could be favorable to Fidel Castro. This quotation is an example of a grey and evolving area in American law—the political freedom of speech rights of employees of employees of private corporations. See {627664} for his later statement.
See {637464} for the trigger for the FBI to write this report. It was the report that verified that the CIA had hired the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro which President Johnson had heard but the CIA never revealed it to Johnson or the Warren Commission investigations JFK’s assassination. The full document was kept secret and was not yet declassified in 2014 when this quotation was entered in the collection.
Joseph Caldwell King (October 5, 1900 – January 27, 1977) was the Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division of the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also known by his CIA code name of Oliver G. Galbond and as Colonel J.C. King.
