THE
VIETNAM WAR WAS AN ACT OF TREASON AGAINST KENNEDY. COPY THIS, SO YOUR
CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WILL KNOW! A major reason for Kennedy’s
assassination was to guarantee the Vietnam war. JFK’s NSAM #263 of
October 11, 1963, would have put the brakes on US involvement in
Vietnam. But McGeorge Bundy, Kennedy’s National Security Adviser, gutted
that plan ONE DAY before JFK died, BEHIND THE PRESIDENT'S BACK. Author
James Douglass in his book JFK and the Unspeakable, identifies Bundy’s
action as treason. So does researcher Greg Burnham. As for Lyndon
Johnson, he kept Bundy in his powerful cabinet position.
The day
before Kennedy died, while his boss was busy in Texas, Bundy was in the
White House, secretly preparing a document known as National Security
Action Memorandum (NSAM) #273. Bundy wrote it as if it was Kennedy’s
own directive. It changed the course of history. The document called
for the escalation of the Vietnam War.
“The DRAFT”
“Perhaps the most powerful evidence indicating that select Senior Administration Officials and Senior Military personnel may have had foreknowledge of the plot to assassinate...Kennedy, is found in the DRAFT of National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) Number 273. There are several smoking guns, but the one that initially stands out as the most obvious is the date of the DRAFT, which was subsequently signed by McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security. The DRAFT was written and dated November 21st, 1963 less than 24 hours before the assassination. It was ostensibly the result of the meetings that took place the previous day at the Honolulu Conference.”
Burnham lists reasons [edited and numbered for brevity] for suspecting Conspiracy:
(1) “The first sentence is indeed quite revelatory of its dubious nature: “The President has reviewed the discussions of South Vietnam which occurred in Honolulu, and has discussed the matter further with Ambassador Lodge.”
That is false…The conference itself took place on the 20th and part of the 21st. The DRAFT was written on the evening of the 21st. JFK and Jackie left Washington aboard Air Force One [en route to San Antonio, where Kennedy gave a speech at Brooks AFB the afternoon of] the 21st.” (JVB: We know that no such conferences with the President occurred on planes or in his hotel).
The President met LBJ and Gov. John Connally in San Antonio. He and Jackie then left San Antonio and continued on to Houston, where JFK addressed a Latin American citizens’ organization. He then spoke at a testimonial dinner for Congressman Albert Thomas before flying to Fort Worth. It was a very busy day, filled with travel, and JFK would be in a coffin the next day. Burnam tells us that
“[T]he conference took place …without the President in attendance…the President could not have reviewed the discussions conducted in Honolulu in depth, nor could he have spoken with Ambassador Lodge in a meaningful way about the conference before the DRAFT of NSAM 273 was written…
(2) So, to which President does this document refer in its first sentence? The Gravel Edition of the Pentagon Papers states, referring to the Honolulu Conference: “…the meeting ended inconclusively. After [Ambassador] Lodge had conferred with the president a few days later in Washington, the White House tried to pull together some conclusions and offer some guidance for our continuing and now deeper involvement in Vietnam”. [emphasis added] [The President "a few days later" was LBJ]
(3) “[That] could not have been the sitting president, JFK, as he was in Texas at the time…the first and only President to ever review the discussions conducted at the Honolulu Conference and further discuss them with Ambassador Lodge in Washington was LBJ…The only person to whom this DRAFT document could therefore refer…is LBJ…who met with Ambassador Lodge in Washington and… signed the final version of NSAM 273 on the 26th.”
Some “official version” defenders who run websites devoted to the government version of everything describe Kennedy’s long-term plan to withdraw all troops from Vietnam by 1965 as a mere ploy to influence the Diem regime, even though the Diem regime was destroyed by assassinations before Kennedy’s directive was written.
Of curse, JFK assured the American people that their country was in good shape militarily, poised to fight communist aggression worldwide. That didn't include going tpo war in Vietnam. One website tells readers, “...NSAM 273 was drafted during Kennedy’s administration, and then approved by Johnson”iii –going on to quote JFK’s cold war rhetoric in his last days of life--as if this draft reflected Kennedy’s last desires. Now for the truth: Greg Burnham also makes it clear that JFK’s Memorandum 263 — not 273 — was active government policy, as of October 11, 1963:
(4) “As of October 11, 1963 it was the policy of the USG to withdraw the bulk of all US personnel from Vietnam as per [the] EXISTING National Security Action Memorandum (263).”
But a DRAFT --NSAM 273-- would suddenly supersede it, as Burnham explains:
…this DRAFT of NSAM 273 states:
(5) “It remains the central object of the United States in South Vietnam to assist the people and Government of that country to win their contest against the externally directed and supported Communist conspiracy…”
That’s NOT what President Kennedy had approved. HERE is what he approved:
1. A program be established to train Vietnamese so that essential functions now performed by U.S. military personnel can be carried out by Vietnamese by the end of 1965. It should be possible to withdraw the bulk of U.S. personnel by that time.
2. In accordance with the program to train progressively Vietnamese to take over military functions, the Defense Department should announce in the very near future presently prepared plans to withdraw 1000 U.S. military personnel by the end of 1963. This action should be explained in low key as an initial step in a long-term program to replace U.S. personnel with trained Vietnamese without impairment of the war effort. (quoted from Section 1, part B)”iv
But Bundy’s Draft (part #2) says “The objectives of the United States with respect to the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel remain as stated in the White House statement of October 2, 1963.”
But wait. OCTOBER 2 ?
BUNDAY'S MEMORANDUM IGNORED Kennedy’s Oct. 11 memorandum #263. He goes back in time to the McNamara and Taylor report to President Kennedy on October 2, 1963, even though Kennedy approved only a small portion of that report, as seen in the October 11 memorandum.
Burnham comments:
(1) “…consider the simplicity of [Kennedy’s original order --] NSAM 263 -- JFK, after reviewing the McNamara-Taylor Report, approved only the recommendation to WITHDRAW. Done deal... Yet, Bundy’s NSAM 273 draft directs [the US to assist] the South Vietnamese so that they will ‘win their contest against...the Communist conspiracy’ …such a plan was in direct opposition to [JFK’s]…standing order to his military to withdraw.”
Burnham then considers the treasonous implications:
(2) “…the official record serves to confirm these conclusions… the JOINT STATE/DEFENSE Department Cable, dated November 13th 1963, directs the participants as to the topics…to be discussed at the [Honolulu] conference. It does NOT indicate discussions of any reversal or modification of JFK’s Vietnam withdrawal policy... The part of the cable discussing the military (item 2) refers to implementation of the recommendations contained in the McNamara-Taylor Report… but the only part of the McNamara-Taylor Report that the President approved concerning US military policy is the section incorporated by direct reference in his National Security Action Memorandum Number 263 which called for the withdrawal of the bulk of all US Personnel by the end of 1965…”
(3) [Regarding foreknowledge that JFK was going to die]“…[the Memorandum] indicates… [either] foreknowledge by the majority of attendees… [or] foreknowledge by only a few...perhaps only one ... Lyndon Johnson [who] signed the final version of NSAM 273 on November 26th, 1963, just four days after the assassination and one day after the funeral.”
When Lyndon Johnson signed Bundy’s NSAM #273 on November 26, waging war in Vietnam became official policy. As the war escalated under LBJ, many historians mistakenly assumed it was based on Kennedy’s policy because of NSAM #273. Many historians are still unaware of Kennedy’s withdrawal plan for Vietnam because of McGeorge Bundy’s treasonous act.
==from our new book, KENNEDY AND OSWALD: THE BIG PICTURE by Judyth Vary Baker and Edward Schwartz, soon to be published by Trine Day. Visit me on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/Judyth.vary.baker/posts/10210658276758552
“The DRAFT”
“Perhaps the most powerful evidence indicating that select Senior Administration Officials and Senior Military personnel may have had foreknowledge of the plot to assassinate...Kennedy, is found in the DRAFT of National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) Number 273. There are several smoking guns, but the one that initially stands out as the most obvious is the date of the DRAFT, which was subsequently signed by McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security. The DRAFT was written and dated November 21st, 1963 less than 24 hours before the assassination. It was ostensibly the result of the meetings that took place the previous day at the Honolulu Conference.”
Burnham lists reasons [edited and numbered for brevity] for suspecting Conspiracy:
(1) “The first sentence is indeed quite revelatory of its dubious nature: “The President has reviewed the discussions of South Vietnam which occurred in Honolulu, and has discussed the matter further with Ambassador Lodge.”
That is false…The conference itself took place on the 20th and part of the 21st. The DRAFT was written on the evening of the 21st. JFK and Jackie left Washington aboard Air Force One [en route to San Antonio, where Kennedy gave a speech at Brooks AFB the afternoon of] the 21st.” (JVB: We know that no such conferences with the President occurred on planes or in his hotel).
The President met LBJ and Gov. John Connally in San Antonio. He and Jackie then left San Antonio and continued on to Houston, where JFK addressed a Latin American citizens’ organization. He then spoke at a testimonial dinner for Congressman Albert Thomas before flying to Fort Worth. It was a very busy day, filled with travel, and JFK would be in a coffin the next day. Burnam tells us that
“[T]he conference took place …without the President in attendance…the President could not have reviewed the discussions conducted in Honolulu in depth, nor could he have spoken with Ambassador Lodge in a meaningful way about the conference before the DRAFT of NSAM 273 was written…
(2) So, to which President does this document refer in its first sentence? The Gravel Edition of the Pentagon Papers states, referring to the Honolulu Conference: “…the meeting ended inconclusively. After [Ambassador] Lodge had conferred with the president a few days later in Washington, the White House tried to pull together some conclusions and offer some guidance for our continuing and now deeper involvement in Vietnam”. [emphasis added] [The President "a few days later" was LBJ]
(3) “[That] could not have been the sitting president, JFK, as he was in Texas at the time…the first and only President to ever review the discussions conducted at the Honolulu Conference and further discuss them with Ambassador Lodge in Washington was LBJ…The only person to whom this DRAFT document could therefore refer…is LBJ…who met with Ambassador Lodge in Washington and… signed the final version of NSAM 273 on the 26th.”
Some “official version” defenders who run websites devoted to the government version of everything describe Kennedy’s long-term plan to withdraw all troops from Vietnam by 1965 as a mere ploy to influence the Diem regime, even though the Diem regime was destroyed by assassinations before Kennedy’s directive was written.
Of curse, JFK assured the American people that their country was in good shape militarily, poised to fight communist aggression worldwide. That didn't include going tpo war in Vietnam. One website tells readers, “...NSAM 273 was drafted during Kennedy’s administration, and then approved by Johnson”iii –going on to quote JFK’s cold war rhetoric in his last days of life--as if this draft reflected Kennedy’s last desires. Now for the truth: Greg Burnham also makes it clear that JFK’s Memorandum 263 — not 273 — was active government policy, as of October 11, 1963:
(4) “As of October 11, 1963 it was the policy of the USG to withdraw the bulk of all US personnel from Vietnam as per [the] EXISTING National Security Action Memorandum (263).”
But a DRAFT --NSAM 273-- would suddenly supersede it, as Burnham explains:
…this DRAFT of NSAM 273 states:
(5) “It remains the central object of the United States in South Vietnam to assist the people and Government of that country to win their contest against the externally directed and supported Communist conspiracy…”
That’s NOT what President Kennedy had approved. HERE is what he approved:
1. A program be established to train Vietnamese so that essential functions now performed by U.S. military personnel can be carried out by Vietnamese by the end of 1965. It should be possible to withdraw the bulk of U.S. personnel by that time.
2. In accordance with the program to train progressively Vietnamese to take over military functions, the Defense Department should announce in the very near future presently prepared plans to withdraw 1000 U.S. military personnel by the end of 1963. This action should be explained in low key as an initial step in a long-term program to replace U.S. personnel with trained Vietnamese without impairment of the war effort. (quoted from Section 1, part B)”iv
But Bundy’s Draft (part #2) says “The objectives of the United States with respect to the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel remain as stated in the White House statement of October 2, 1963.”
But wait. OCTOBER 2 ?
BUNDAY'S MEMORANDUM IGNORED Kennedy’s Oct. 11 memorandum #263. He goes back in time to the McNamara and Taylor report to President Kennedy on October 2, 1963, even though Kennedy approved only a small portion of that report, as seen in the October 11 memorandum.
Burnham comments:
(1) “…consider the simplicity of [Kennedy’s original order --] NSAM 263 -- JFK, after reviewing the McNamara-Taylor Report, approved only the recommendation to WITHDRAW. Done deal... Yet, Bundy’s NSAM 273 draft directs [the US to assist] the South Vietnamese so that they will ‘win their contest against...the Communist conspiracy’ …such a plan was in direct opposition to [JFK’s]…standing order to his military to withdraw.”
Burnham then considers the treasonous implications:
(2) “…the official record serves to confirm these conclusions… the JOINT STATE/DEFENSE Department Cable, dated November 13th 1963, directs the participants as to the topics…to be discussed at the [Honolulu] conference. It does NOT indicate discussions of any reversal or modification of JFK’s Vietnam withdrawal policy... The part of the cable discussing the military (item 2) refers to implementation of the recommendations contained in the McNamara-Taylor Report… but the only part of the McNamara-Taylor Report that the President approved concerning US military policy is the section incorporated by direct reference in his National Security Action Memorandum Number 263 which called for the withdrawal of the bulk of all US Personnel by the end of 1965…”
(3) [Regarding foreknowledge that JFK was going to die]“…[the Memorandum] indicates… [either] foreknowledge by the majority of attendees… [or] foreknowledge by only a few...perhaps only one ... Lyndon Johnson [who] signed the final version of NSAM 273 on November 26th, 1963, just four days after the assassination and one day after the funeral.”
When Lyndon Johnson signed Bundy’s NSAM #273 on November 26, waging war in Vietnam became official policy. As the war escalated under LBJ, many historians mistakenly assumed it was based on Kennedy’s policy because of NSAM #273. Many historians are still unaware of Kennedy’s withdrawal plan for Vietnam because of McGeorge Bundy’s treasonous act.
==from our new book, KENNEDY AND OSWALD: THE BIG PICTURE by Judyth Vary Baker and Edward Schwartz, soon to be published by Trine Day. Visit me on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/Judyth.vary.baker/posts/10210658276758552
