Jamal Awil

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The summary remarks by top Agency officers about Hersh’s. [fact]

Somebody drew a line next to a particular paragraph in the CIA’s copy, in which Hersh gives a slightly garbled account, retold to him by Kennedy insiders, of the CIA proposal to destroy Cuba’s sugarcane crop. … The summary remarks by top Agency officers about Hersh’s article are whited out from an accompanying document, a memo for the record summarizing a morning meeting on November 18, 1969, partly declassified in 2005.

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 161