K=D8HB wrote:
"an old friend" wrote

and assuming you were on the blockade line (I don't know
but will give you the benifit of the doubt) that would be the
last place to learn of such things

I don't need any "benifit" of your doubt, especially since you weren't ev=
en a
gleam in your daddy's eye yet. I was a Navy Radioman on the communicatio=
ns
staff of the admiral in command of the blockade. In direct communication=
s with
Office of POTUS we knew, almost minute-by-minute, what was happening and =
the
rationale behind it. None of the movie-makers were there, though. Whate=
ver you
learned at "4 or 5 years old" is a faint and distorted image of real life.

not at all no one living in the times knows what was happening that is
simple fact indeed it is is only now that one would expect to know the
truth about those days, with the last of the security holds pretty much
expired. "History can never be truly known till at al least 50 years
after the fact" Dr Cutler professor of History as the preface to most
of his articles


Admiral Anderson had no real understanding of the presidents mind or
his intent, as he was out of the the real discison making loop as can
be clearly seen from the notes and of the various parties, POTUS did
not trust any of the chiefs esp Curtis Lemay, indeed I don't think he
was trusting the word judegement or descretion of anyone with a star in
his rank insignia

None of the chiefs were remotely in turn with the wishes of POTUS,
assuming you knew what the Admiral had in mind, you can't have known
what POTUS had in mind.

the movie makers had access to files and recolections of the people
calling the shots, and none of them but McNamarra spent any time in the
funny five sided building indeed you were just going on about how no
one knew at the time about the jupiter trade. I am quite certain Adm
Anderson knew nothing about it meaning that were not stating the turth
when you said "In direct communications with Office of POTUS we knew,
almost minute-by-minute, what was happening and the rationale" behind
it." a reasonable person can't expect to have both ways (but the word
reasonable let out most of the newsgroup of course) but we in the world
learned pretty quick perhaps 7 years later awfully fast for a "secert"
in those days
=20
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de Hans, K0HB