Klaus Fuchs, John F. Kennedy, and the National Security State

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By Eahilf
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 4:37:00 P.M. EDT

“They used to hang folks for far less.”

Hans Bethe once said that Klaus Fuchs was the only physicist he knew to have truly changed history.

In the immediate aftermath of WWII, Klaus Fuchs transferred secret technical info on the atomic bomb to the Soviets. This was materially very helpful to them, and led directly to the Russians detonating a bomb in 1949, which was several years ahead of the best current estimate by Western intelligence.

Given existing tensions, the alarm this caused in the West cannot be overstated – it resulted in the U.S. ramping up the national security state, including embarking on what has been effectively a permanent wartime economy, with massive annual spending on “defense.” After delaying, Truman also ultimately approved development of the “super,” i.e., hydrogen bomb, largely due to the fact the Soviets now had the atom bomb.

Douglas Horne has a long but very good video tracing these developments, including all of the relevant NSA directives:

JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment

The Future of Freedom Foundation

This talk by Douglas Horne is part of the online conference The National-Security State and the Kennedy Administration. NOTE: Do [sic] to technical difficulties, the recording of the live webinar could not be used. Mr. Horne has re-recorded his presentation for this upload, including much new material that was not shown in the original live webinar. Who were JFK’s major opponents and adversaries within his own government, with regard to the making of foreign policy at the height of the Cold War with the Soviet Union? How did his overall approach to the Cold War change during his Presidency, and why? Since the cover-story of a “lone nut” assassin firing from behind JFK’s limousine is not supported by the medical evidence, an examination of the serious internal conflicts within his own administration over the “making of the sausage” of foreign policy is extraordinarily relevant to what truly happened in Dealey Plaza in November 1963.