memorandum written on May 1, 1963, by the Deputy Director of Plans (head of covert action) Richard Helms, that was not declassified until 1996. It was addressed to CIA Director John McCone. A scribbled “P saw” on the upper right-hand side of the document indicates it was read also by the president.[32] Thus we have become witnesses to Kennedy watching the CIA watching Castro approaching Kennedy, in response to Kennedy’s crackdown on the CIA’s covert-action anti-Castro groups. As the increasingly interested porcupines edged toward each other very carefully, the CIA’s chief of covert action was,
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