Did you know JFK said there existed a “tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations” and that its “preparations are concealed... its dissenters are silenced”?

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THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESS: ADDRESS BEFORE THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, APRIL 27, 1961

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"It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed."

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- JFK, April 27, 1961 Address before the American Newspaper Publishers

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