(16/n) #HPsCommentary

...seen to not be working as early as the first of the named #ColdWar presidents:
“For more than three months before the invasion the #American press was reporting, often with some accuracy, on the recruiting and training of #Cubans. Such massive preparations could only be laid to the U.S. The Agency’s name was freely linked with these activities. #PlausibleDenial was a pathetic illusion.” (p.61)

However, once again, the “#BromancePresidents” seem to both have failed...

(13/n)

...but this is not the point I’m trying to make here]:

“Intelligence practice has always been a matter of indirection, secrecy and deceit. In #UnitedStates covert operations this has included applying the technique of “plausible deniability.”
Under that concept operations and activities are carried out in such fashion as to keep hidden the hand of the #CIA or the #UnitedStates, or in other ways to make it possible to deny U.S. involvement…during the #ColdWar era—and here the...