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...presidents under consideration are #JohnFKennedy, #LyndonBJohnson, and #RichardMNixon—plausible deniability was standard procedure.“ 11)

However, the term must have originated earlier, because after the disastrously failed #BayOfPigs operation. That operation was originally envisaged as a covert operation and had been planned under the former General, then President #Eisenhower. After his 2and term in office, it was then...

11) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo…

Understanding the CIA: How Covert (and Overt) Operations Were Proposed and Approved during the Cold War

Washington, DC, March 4, 2019 – The covert operations of the Central Intelligence Agency are one element of the forward edge of power in U.S. foreign policy. But the CIA is not a lone ranger, shooting up saloons on its own account.

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