When JFK faced the Cuban Missile Crisis, he created something called the “ExComm,” an executive committee of both National Security Council members and other advisors he thought would be valuable, to help lead the crisis planning and response efforts. VI. One of the oddities of this entire episode was that Halperin hadn’t worked on the Cambodia raids; he told Kissinger after he didn’t even know if Beecher’s story in the New York Times was accurate. VII. The total number of so-called “Kissinger wiretaps” is usually listed as seventeen, because the FBI, which struggled to re-create who had been
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