:19:02
...for all covert paramilitary action
in peacetime.
:19:05
This ended the reign of the CIA.
:19:08
Splintered it into 1,000 pieces,
as JFK promised he would.
:19:11
And now he was ordering the military...
:19:14
...to help him do it. Unprecedented!
:19:16
I can't tell you the shock waves this sent
along the corridors of power.
:19:21
This and the firing of Allen Dulles...
:19:23
...Richard Bissell and Gen. Charles Cabell.
:19:25
All were sacred cows in Intell
since World War II.
:19:29
They got some very upset people.
:19:32
Kennedy's directives weren't implemented
because of...
:19:35
...bureaucratic resistance.
:19:38
But one of the results was...
:19:40
...the Cuban operation was turned over
to my department...
:19:44
...as Operation Mongoose.
:19:46
Mongoose was pure Black Ops.
:19:49
It was secretly based at Miami University...
:19:52
...which has the largest
domestic CIA station...
:19:55
...budgeted annually for hundreds
of millions of dollars.
:19:58
Three hundred agents, 7,000 select Cubans.
:20:01
Fifty fake business fronts
to launder money.
:20:04
They waged a non-stop war against Castro.
:20:07
Industrial sabotage, crop burning, etc.
:20:10
All under the control of General Y.
:20:13
He took the rules of covert warfare
he'd used abroad...
:20:15
...and brought them to this country.
:20:17
Now he had the people,
the equipment, the bases...
:20:20
...and the motivation.
:20:22
Don't underestimate the budget cuts
that Kennedy called for in March of 1963.
:20:26
Nearly 52 military installations
in 25 states.
:20:29
Twenty-one overseas bases.
:20:31
Big money.
:20:33
You know how many helicopters
have been lost in Vietnam?
:20:37
Nearly 3,000 so far.
:20:40
Who makes them?
Bell Helicopter. Who owns Bell?
:20:43
Bell was nearly bankrupt when First
National Bank of Boston asked the CIA...
:20:47
...to use the helicopter in Indochina.
How about the F-111 fighter?
:20:51
General Dynamics of Fort Worth, Texas.
Who owns that?
:20:54
Find out the defense budget since
the war began. $75 going on $100 billion.
:20:59
Nearly $200 billion will be spent
before is over.