TSOT113: The Schlesinger Memo - A Solution Interrupted That Changed History.

Comparing a very important moment in history - a sitting President considering how to approach reigning in an agency that has already many times shown its rogue colors just 15 years or so into its existence. In the form of a White House advisor's briefing and recommendations memo written for President Kennedy circa June 1961, "the Schlesinger Memo," only about two months after the agency misled a President who was only months into his term, and purposely sacrificed pawns in the Bay of Pigs (planned to fail) failed invasion, hoping to create a necessity for the President to bow to their desires on Cuba. And how, when that President was stopped in Dealey Plaza 11/22/63, the risks the memo clearly identified came to pass over the next decades, as our perceptions were more and more adjusted and skewed by intelligence machinations, and our rights to privacy destroyed due to behind-the-scenes favoritism towards surveillance and deceit above all over principles. Eventually even corresponding to recent revelations about USAID and its statecraft through "NGOs" it funds.RELATED MATERIALS:Jim DiEugenio on the declassified Schlesinger Memo, on KennedysandKing websiteThe Scales of Truth episode on Bill Binney and the effort to preserve constitutionality in broad data gatheringUSAID RevelationsMore USAID Revelations on funding journalists: 2008 article on cameras "proposed" to be put in cable boxes:Smart TVs built-in camerasProject Lifelog and facebookFacebook and NSAGoogle's True Origin StoryThe Military Origins of FacebookA Good American (the documentary on Bill Binney's efforts to limit big data searches to an elegant and selective solution, and how greed won and common sense lost) Article on A Good American, Binney, ThinThread, and Trailblazer==========================================Thanks for listening! Please feel free to email me at [email protected] with requests for appearances, thoughts, feedback, questions, observations, or show ideas! Please like my episodes and follow my show if that is what feels right to you!