Cuba—but because Kennedy didn’ t keep his campaign promise to support the exiles, he then became the prime “Bay of Pigs” target. Had the Watergate mission not been aborted, Hunt would have continued to simulate documents blaming Kennedy and Ted Sorensen for the murder of Che Guevara, just as he forged those cables blaming Kennedy for the murder of Ngo Dinh Diem. | hasten to add that Hunt was merely c/arifying the issues. The Kennedy Administration was responsible. But what we were trying to do was hurt 7ed Kennedy’ s chances if he decided to run. However, that is guilt by relationship, which is wrong and irrelevant. kok # | was convinced that Nelson Rockefeller was behind it all. He had never forgiven me for defeating him for the Republican nomination in 1968. What with that whole 25" Amendment arrangement, | figured their chronological plan was to: 1. Get Spiro Agnew out of office. 2. Replace him with Gerald Ford. 3. Get me out of office. 4. Replace me with Ford. 5. Replace Ford (as vice president) with Rockefeller. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015116