TED SORENSEN on Negotiating the Cuban Missile Standdown w/ KRUSHCHEV & CASTRO; ADM LEMAY Coup Threat

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From Brent Holland's 2024 Film "Inside Camelot: A Life with JF" on Sorenson's final interview, which I don't recommend but this is a very good clip, maybe the only good part. The movie work was great, the problem is it's Sorenson talking the whole time. I can see thinking JFK's a communist with this guy as his advisor. He sounds like a useful idiot more than someone who's lying because we're not in the club. He compares JFK to Obama in the beginning of the film (NOT included). In this clip, he says he played mind games with Kruschev during the Missile negotiations while knowing it could lead to everyone getting blown up, and he thinks that was a good idea, smart thing to do.
One thing about the missile negotiations you hear today from Roger Stone & others is Kennedy never inspected their nuclear facilities to prove they pulled the missiles. But they didn't inspect ours either, so that's not something that gave Casto an advantage. Stone probably feels some way about this because he was a Nixon guy. Maybe there's something I'm missing, I don't know. I'm reading the UN was supposed to supervise and inspect the missile removal and that that was only partially achieved, because Cuba had obstructed UN personnel being stationed there, so there was "limited oversight", which sounds like Stone describes, no oversight at all.

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