FROM THE OUTSET, Kennedy's people went out of
their way to conceal the Jupiter concession. It started when the president's
brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, met Soviet Ambassador Anatoly
Dobrynin on Oct. 27 to present the Jupiters-for-Soviet-missiles swap. He told
Dobrynin: We'll take the Jupiters out, but it's not part of the deal, and you
can never talk about it. The Soviets removed their missiles, the United States
removed the Jupiters, and the secret held for 16 years, until a small paragraph
in an Arthur Schlesinger book upon which few remarked.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/08/the_lie_that_screwed_up_50_years_of_us_foreign_policy
Uh, lying for our own good, I'm sure.
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