The facts, whatever they may be, are interpreted so as to conform to the central dogma. Nothing lurks beneath the shrouds. Newman's media role is hardly more impressive. That could be true, as it certainly is true for Kennedy's advisers. But whether true or not, the statement is irrelevant without evidence that JFK understood what all of his associates failed to see.
None appears in the book, beyond mystic insight.
47 Go to the next segment . 43 Ibid., 351f. This is mostly incorrect. As discussed earlier, covert operations against the North had been underway since mid-1962, apparently with US and third country participation, and appear in the internal record from Jan. 1963, endorsed in April by Hilsman. NSAM 273 is not different in any relevant way from the draft.