Somewhere in the middle of WW II, Wild Bill Donovan took the OSS spy agency off and running. It was once killed, allegedly, by HST after the war, but didn't really die. It was renamed the CIA and people like Donovan and the Dulles brothers put our country on a different path from which we have been unable to stop and get off of. Tons upon tons of war material stashed in the Pacific for the pending invasion of Japan, instead was split and sent half to Korea, and half to Vietnam. The manipulations of the populations of those two countries makes for fascinating reading by our Black Ops guys who took part. JFK came along in 1961 and thoroughly upset the status quo by pursuing world peace, calling for it in our lifetime. His American University commencement address in June 1963 was one of his last efforts to turn us around. He wanted us out of Vietnam and in fact signed the orders, which were ignored by his Joint Chiefs and Defense Dept, aided by the CIA and State. He signed a nuclear arms treaty with the Russians, which ticked off the establishment no end. He had us, and the world, both East and West, on a path to peaceful co-existence, using the Peace Corps as a primary tool. He sent us to explore the heavens and land on the moon. And it all ended in Dallas, the third of three cities selected that summer that he was visiting, in which to assassinate him. The same triangular field of fire was set up in all three cities. It worked in Dallas. The CIA got their way, the day after his funeral LBJ signed the document sending us to war. We haven't looked back. Ike warned us about the M. Ind. Complex, and we failed miserably to listen. War is the engine for economies, it has been argued. We will never know if peace would also work, because the powers behind Washington won't allow it. The development and use of the atomic bomb nearly ruined the cabal's plans, as using nukes would eliminate the needs for arms and that economy, and wouldn't do much for populations, either. The last 72 years have been miserable for a govt that once held so much promise. Today it is an empty shell of its origins and I doubt any of the FF would recognize it.