In Part 2 of this 3-part series in WhoWhatWhy , President Kennedy learns of Dulles’s involvement in plotting to overthrow de Gaulle, and assures the French of his support for de Gaulle, while issuing a warning:
“The CIA is such a vast and poorly controlled machine that the most unlikely maneuvers might be true,” Kennedy said. But not even the CIA, with all its right-wing allies, was any match for the millions of French who stood up for de Gaulle.
Read Part 1 here.