Worm Hole - Crypt
Unfortunately, "communist conspiracy" was a cornerstone of the Eisenhower administration. Interference in the personal affairs of other countries was a common occurance of this and all other administrations. Even as late as 1987, a Gallup Poll indicated that at least 60% of all American believed there was a communist conspiracy to take over the world and only 28% disagreed. During Eisenhower's administration that belief was even more widely held by Americans.
Americans have been right about conspiracies only it has been the "American conspiracy" to spread our tenticles as far and wide as we can and without the Soviet Union to oppose the U.S. interference in the personal affairs of other countries is even more widespread than it was during my tenure with Eisenhower and George W. Bush's aggressive foreign policy makes Ike look like an angel.
 My mother and my two kids (in the 60s) | Ike was not so bad. He was a product of a different reality. I believe, from my observations while working for him, that he was caught up in a different time and attitudes of the Cold War, just as I was. I believed in the mission too. But that was going to change. |
Dwight D. Eisenhower also ended the Korean War and he refused to send the military to war in spite of recommendations to do so on several occasions while I was working for him. I don't believe we have had men in office as principled, as Eisenhower was since then. He was not perfect but he may have been better than most but that did not prevent the making and use of weapons of mass destruction but afterall, it was not too many years since Truman had used the ultimate WMD, dropping atomic bombs on Japan.
 My friends in the Jewish War Veterans. There I am on the right. Commander Hank Roth | In "52" the Chinese accused Washington of using germ warfare against them and a report by an independent scientific committee appeared to confirm it's use in china and against the people of North Korea (the report contained 600 pages of documentation) [Referenced in William Blum, "Killing Hope.." (95)] |
"And during the 1950s and the 1960s, the army and the CIA conducted numerous experiments with biological agents within the United States. To cite just two examples: In 1955, there is compelling evidence that the CIA released whooping-cough bacteria into the open air in Florida, followed by an extremely sharp increase in the incidence of the disease in the stat that year. The following year another toxic substance was disseminated int he streets and tunnels of New York City." (ibid)
During my tour with the Eisenhower administration it was producing thousands of gallons of sarin nerve gas. Whether or not it was used I don't know, but I would assume if it is made it was intended that it would be used. (This has also been reported in the New York Times - August - 1970)
The Eisenhower years may have been some of our best times because it seems at least that it has been all down hill since his presidency.
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