Katzenbach was acting in coordination with Robert Kennedy on this, following President Kennedy's orders for a media blackout in the event he was assassinated.
The Judas Contingency: Castro, McNamara, and the Roots of the Warren Commission
The first third of Waldron’s book argues that the Johnson administration’s lone gunman verdict was guided by contingency plans the Kennedy administration had developed while preparing for a potential December 1963 coup against Castro. The coup plan envisioned replacing Castro with Cuban official Juan Almeida Bosque, who had been recruited as a CIA asset. The plan, coordinated by Robert Kennedy through five Cuban exile groups, was codenamed “AM/WORLD” by the CIA and was sometimes referred to by CIA exile assets as “Plan Omega” and “Plan Judas” (the latter presumably a reference to Almeida). For convenience Waldron nicknames the operation “C-Day”, a phrase he invents to also encompass the non-CIA portions of AM/WORLD, which he emphasizes was a military operation as well as a CIA operation. If the military had its own separate codename for AM/WORLD, Waldron does not mention it.
Waldron quotes documents recording that AM/WORLD planning included contingency plans for how to respond in the event that Castro retaliated by kidnapping or assassinating US government officials or citizens. According to a confidential Kennedy administration source cited by Waldron, these plans included provisions for a partial media blackout of key crime scene information in order to buy the US government time to investigate Castro’s possible involvement and stall calls for immediate nuclear retaliation. Waldron’s source asserts that these considerations guided how the government responded to Kennedy’s assassination. Waldron’s source described himself as having assisted Robert Kennedy in ensuring that his brother’s autopsy did not compromise national security. The end of this review will suggest that Waldron’s source here may be Robert McNamara, who is described in a House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) memo as serving as liaison between the Kennedy family and physician George Burkley during Kennedy’s autopsy.
That is very interesting
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Interesting. I’ve never read this.