I am very happy to see all of you. Its a wonderful evening to be in the city, which i know of unfortunately through so many of your disasters, but i was thinking, looking at the fountains, there is a little one you have for the children and a bigger one for the adults and i was thinking about water flows in peace of the history that is so fitted for me of the bombing of the people of the imprisonment of my media, that history is not the whole story and its very good to remember that and to see that we make our way every day, every single step can be a different direction. So as i was thinking about what i wanted to talk about and read about and i dont have a whole lot of time but i wanted to start by mentioning something that i find very disturbing which is that you know our country and we are not alone. This country is not the only country making a lot of war in the world that we are make you some really terrible big ones. Please bomb and shoot these people over generations and starve
Hilary flynn, the director of the irish festival for this invitation. Lets celebrate the irish in the americas. I put a title to my conversation with you today, take the journey with me, and i wanted to read you an irish proverb that i like it very much because its the way the history of myself, the history of my family. The longest road out is the shortest road home. And so travel with me and lets go to havana, cuba, and to know a little bit about the irish, the few irish that went to cuba, in particular to havana. I want you to know that on the left side of the entrance to the havana harbor, there is a wellknown fortress, el moro. There is a lighthouse there and the moro has become a image of cuban nationality and in particular havana. In that lighthouse you find, you read an when you enter the havana harbor, you find an irish name. That lighthouse was known for many years as the odono lighthouse. Who was this person, odono the man that oversaw the project of the lighthouse in 1844 a
January 1961 to november 1963. Kennedy was a formal former naval officer. So he thought he knew something about intelligence. He was also a big fan of the james bond novels written by ian fleming. Ive pictured him with his Brother Robert kennedy because the brothers together had great influence on Us Intelligence. Theres a lot to say about Us Intelligence center kennedy, even though he served less than a full term because of course he was assassinated by a procuban american leftist a disturbed former marine named Lee Harvey Oswald at the end. Ill have have some reflections about the assassination. Before we get to the main intelligence events of this administration. I want to mention a couple of other developments that theyre not as spectacular, but still they deserve to be remembered as important milestones in Us Intelligence history and they leave a legacy to this day. One of them is the president s daily brief. Which was created for kennedy as the president s intelligence checklist
Brother Robert Kennedy because the brothers together had great influence on Us Intelligence. Theres a lot to say about Us Intelligence center kennedy, even though he served less than a full term because of course he was assassinated by a procuban american leftist a disturbed former marine named Lee Harvey Oswald at the end. Ill have have some reflections about the assassination. Before we get to the main intelligence events of this administration. I want to mention a couple of other developments that theyre not as spectacular, but still they deserve to be remembered as important milestones in Us Intelligence history and they leave a legacy to this day. One of them is the president s daily brief. Which was created for kennedy as the president s intelligence checklist when i first came to cia in 1990 i was i learned that one of the nicknames that insiders used was the pickle factory. They never use the company, but they used the term the pickle factory and i couldnt figure out what it wa
And so travel with me and lets go to havana, cuba, and to know a little bit about the irish, the few irish that went to cuba, in particular to havana. I want you to know that on the left side of the entrance to the havana harbor, there is a wellknown fortress, el moro. There is a lighthouse there and the moro has become a image of cuban nationality and in particular havana. In that lighthouse you find, you read an when you enter the havana harbor, you find an irish name. That lighthouse was known for many years as the odono lighthouse. Who was this person, odono the man that oversaw the project of the lighthouse in 1844 and he was a governor of cuba from 1843 to 48, but he was a spanish man of irish origin and irish ancestry, a descendant of the chieftan of the ticanelles. He is spanish and irish together. If we look at the history of the irish in cuba, most of the irish to went to cuba in the 18th and 19th centuries arrived from spain, some of them with the Spanish Royal armies; other