The relationship between Bill Harvey and Bobby Kennedy, a CIA officer recalled, was “bad from the beginning, and then it deteriorated steadily.”83 At Langley, a story was making the rounds that when Kennedy demanded to know why a team of exiles had not yet been infiltrated into Cuba, Harvey replied they had to be trained first. “I’ll take them out to Hickory Hill and train them myself,” Kennedy snorted. “What will you teach them, sir?” Harvey shot back. “Baby-sitting?”84 During a meeting where the attorney general said he had ten minutes to hear the CIA’s plan, Harvey droned on and on. He was
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