The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and opened society and we are as a people are inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outway the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today there is little value in securing the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. There is a very grave danger, that an unannounced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That, I do not intend to permit to the extent that is within my control, and no official of my administration whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military should interpret my words here tonight as an example to censor the news to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press or the public the facts they deserve to know.

For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence. On infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerillas by night instead of armies by day, it is a system which has conscripted mass human and material resources into the tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed not published. Mistakes are buried not headlined. ts dissent is silenced, not praised, no expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.

No president should fear public scrutiny of his program, from that scrutiny, comes understanding. Come support or opposition and both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support an administration, but I am asking your help for the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people, for I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed. I could not only stifle controversy among your readers, I welcome it. This administration intends to be candid about its errors, for as a wise man once said, “An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it”.

We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors and we expect you to point them out when we miss them. Without debate, without criticism no administration, no country can succeed and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solan decreed a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy, and that is why our press is protected by the first amendment, the only business specifically protected in the constitution. Not primarily to entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and sentimental, not to simply give what the public wants, but to inform, arouse, reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crisis and our choices, lead, lull, educate, and sometimes even anger public opinion.

This means greater coverage and analysis of international news, for it is no longer far away and foreign, but close at hand and local. It means greater attention at understanding the news as well as improving transmission, it means finally the government at all levels must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security and so it is to the printing press, the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help, man can be what it was born to be…free and independent.

JFK made it clear that the CIA was a problem and needed to be exposed. Bush senior would even soon become director of the CIA. The video on this subject matter up and disappeared. Read the Bush and JFK Assassination connection ‘Killing of a King’ here.