#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

3919.388 - 3948.275 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

He was going to try to end the Cold War. Eisenhower was in the last year of his—in May of 1960. But that was torpedoed by the CIA during the U-2 crash. You know, they sent a U-2 over the Soviet Union. It got shot down, and then they told—and then Alan Dulles told Eisenhower to deny that we had a program. They didn't know that the Russians had captured Gary Francis Powers.