HST 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: John Poindexter, Mind Control, Terrorist Screening Database
16 Sep 2016
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Prior to 1975, we examined what happened to america when the two dulles brothers take power and some argue this is when america went bad. Dulles was long gone, we just began learning about all the stuff they did. So, because espionage has this clandestine history you won"t find out decades later after the fact. 1961, dulles is still head of the cia under kennedy, but he has died by then. Bay of pigs, kennedy fires dulles then kennedy is assassinated. After dulles got fired, his last job before dying was on the warrant commission investigating who assassinated. Kennedy (a liaison for the cia and warrant commission). After kennedy, johnson becomes president and america gets bogged down in the vietnam war. Vietnam war: this is a war that kills 58,000 american soldiers (many of them kids) drafted into this war. The americans cannot defeat a bunch of guys wearing flip-flops.
