Posted on 10/22/2017 12:22:45 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
I’ve been hearing from news reporters for major news organizations, who ask, “What’s in the new JFK files? Is there a smoking gun?”
The answer is no. There is no one piece of evidence in the 113,00 pages of JFK records scheduled to be released by October 26, 2017, that will change people’s minds...
But the new JFK files, if released in their entirety, will fill in the two key gaps in the JFK assassination story that have long been obscured by government misconduct, official secrecy, and lazy journalism.
Think of the JFK assassination story as an incomplete mosaic. The new files help complete the picture in two ways.
The new files shed light on the CIA’s use of Lee Oswald for intelligence purposes before November 22, 1963. They also illuminate the illegal actions of government officials to conceal the CIA’s manipulation of Oswald and its plot to kill Fidel Castro in late 1963....
The CIA’s Use of Oswald:
The new files strengthen the claim–long denied by the CIA and mainstream news organizations–that the agency used accused assassin Lee Oswald for intelligence purposes.
Part of the story was brought to light the JFK review board in the 1990s when they released, a complete version of one of the agency’s many pre-assassination cables on Oswald. It was prepared by Jame Angleton’s Counterintelligence Staff on October 10, 1963.
More of the story is coming in the testimony of Orest Pena, a New Orleans bar owner who said he saw Oswald in the company of a senior FBI agents in the summer of 1963. The Pena testimony was not included in the first batch of National Archives releases last week.
The newly-declassified financial records of the CIA front group, the Cuban Revolutionary Council, are also relevant, as Larry explains at The New JFK Show Blog. In his turn as a public supporter of Castro in the summer of 1963, Oswald had repeated contacts with people associated with the CRC. I will be writing more about these records in comings weeks.
Meanwhile, intelligence historian John Newman has already begun to use the new files to develop the granular knowledge of CIA covert operations and cryptonyms necessary to tell this story.
The Criminal Cover-up:
The JFK release last week includes a great deal of material about Russian defector Yuri Nosenko, who claimed to have seen Oswald’s KGB file. The veracity of Nosenko’s claims in the face of CIA interrogation is a key issue that requires deeper analysis, as Newsweek has already reported.
Key documents to come include the still-unreleased testimony of Angleton to the Church Committee on September 12, 1975.
Also important are the operational files of CIA officers hostile to JFK who were involved in assassination operations including Bill Harvey, David Phillips, and Howard Hunt.
None of these files were included in the first Archives release.
Conspiracy of Silence
Stopping JFK in TX was urgent business such that J. Edgar Hoover helped EL Hunt build a largish FBI/CIA combo outfit with veterans who had lots of chits to call in internationally. Oil barons - who windfalled after JFKS’ hit - chipped in cash and int’l logistics. Imagine what these Texans would have done with bho if they were still around.
“Stopping JFK in TX was urgent business such that J. Edgar Hoover helped EL Hunt build a largish FBI/CIA combo outfit with veterans who had lots of chits to call in internationally. Oil barons - who windfalled after JFKS’ hit - chipped in cash and int’l logistics. Imagine what these Texans would have done with bho if they were still around.”
First of all, I fail to see how oil barons would have any real motive to stopping JFK. Second of all, Ion Mihai Pacepa and Humberto Fontova made it VERY clear that the Soviets and/or the Cubans had direct involvement and gave a lot of convincing evidence proving such was the case (and considering Ion Mihai Pacepa, you know, played a direct role at the time in regards to the creation of that op, I’d definitely trust his word on the matter). Heck, even Markus Wolf indicated that Castro’s fingerprints were all over the JFK Assassination.
I wasn’t in Dallas that day ... oh, wait yes I was maybe I thought you said Houston.
That paragraph was about the coverup/muddying/obfuscation, not the actual op.
99% of us had no idea the relevance of the quality of this camera, thanks. So we are led to believe that the homeless, car-less unconnected lone gunman Oswald just happened to possess a highly sophisticated expensive camera for his own generic purposes.
Well, it gets better, after the camera is recorded missing and the Warren Commission is demanding accountability from the FBI, we get these series of lies concocted by Ruth Paine & the FBI:
“In an effort to “locate” the camera, Dallas FBI Agent Bardwell Odum on January 30, 1964, contacted Ruth Paine to inquire into whether the Paines owned a Minox camera.
Ruth recollected that her husband had a Minox which he had dropped into salt water several years ago; she was sure that he had thrown it away but she would ask him about it and get back to him. She also stated that the police took a Minox camera case along with a light meter belonging to Michael which may or may not have been a Minox light meter.
The next day on January 31, 1964, Ruth Paine called Odum to tell him that her husband still had the camera and that it was in a coffee can in the garage.
If this was true, one would have to conclude that the local police not only did a poor job of searching the garage the weekend of the assassination but also fabricated the Minox camera on both its original inventory list and joint DPD/FBI list. Since this was not the case, the collusion of the Paines is readily apparent.”
Yeah, sure, the Minox was in a coffee can in the garage...along with his President gold Rolex.
Thanks for the link.
Lee Harvey Oswald = C.I.A. Patsy Dead Fool
Curious that there is no mention of the undeveloped Minox film casstte being processed for what the images might contain
If truly the Minox was owned by Oswald, its tiny size would have allowed for unobtrusive photos of parties involved with Oswald, perhaps for self protection given his “I’m a patsy.” statement.
Wilderness of mirrors.
Here’s Escalante’s story from 2005:
Fabian Escalante was a supporter of Fidel Castro he worked for the country’s state security department. Later he became head of Cuba’s Counter-Intelligence Unit (1976-1982). In 1978 he agreed to provide information to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
In 1978 President Carter arranged for a group of imprisoned exiles to be released. This included Tony Cuesta who was involved in an attack on Cuba on 29th May, 1966. A member of his team, Herminio Diaz Garcia, was killed during the raid. Cuesta, who always vowed that Castro would never take him alive, attempted suicide by setting off a grenade, which blinded him and blew off his right hand. Cuesta spent a long time in hospital as a result of his serious injuries.
Just before leaving Cuba Cuesta asked to see Escalante. Cuesta told Escalante that he had been involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
He also named Herminio Diaz Garcia and Eladio del Valle as being involved in the conspiracy. Cuesta asked Escalante not to make this information “public because I am returning to my family in Miami - and this could be very dangerous.”
In 1982 Escalante became a senior official in the Interior Ministry; he was considered to be Cuba’s leading authority on the history of CIA activities against Cuba. In a Cuban television documentary broadcast on November 26, 1993, Escalante named the gunmen who killed John F. Kennedy as three Chicago mobsters (Lenny Patrick, David Yaras, and Richard Cain), and two Cuban exiles (Eladio del Valle and Herminio Diaz Garcia), but said that many in the CIA and elsewhere knew what was going to happen.
In 1995, Wayne Smith, chief of the Centre for International Policy in Washington, arranged a meeting on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in Nassau, Bahamas. Others in attendance were: Gaeton Fonzi, Dick Russell, Noel Twyman, Anthony Summers, Peter Dale Scott, Jeremy Gunn, John Judge, Andy Kolis, Peter Kornbluh, Mary and Ray LaFontaine, Jim Lesar, John Newman, Alan Rogers, Russ Swickard, Ed Sherry, and Gordon Winslow.
Some high-level Cuban officials attended the conference. This included Fabian Escalante, Carlos Lechuga, a former Cuban diplomat, and Arturo Rodriguez, a State Security official. Escalante revealed details of Cuesta’s confession. He also informed the group they had a spy in the anti-Castro community in Miami and knew about the plot to kill JFK.
Fabian Escalante is the author of The Secret War: CIA Covert Operations Against Cuba, 1959-62 (1995) and CIA Targets Fidel: The Secret Assassination Report (1996).
My Note: While Escalante claimed to have a written statement from the confessor, Cuesta, he refused to produce a letter to substantiate this claim.
If you look at Soviet operatives at that time, the idea that they’d use Oswall is absolutely laughable.
Look at Pacepa’s deposits from the DNC.
80% of people don’t agree on anything unless it is obvious. I don’t think “The world is round” has that much agreement.
Also remember it is NOT LBJ. It is the entire US intel and services. Not to mention his party allies like the DNC.
Look at how many people are out of the loop in US stuff.
The DNC found 17 people in different agencies who would stay they thought the Russians colluded with Trump and we all know what a steaming pile of BS that is!
Besides, if tensions escalated with Russia, how valuable would these former Soviets be to the US government?
“If everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking’’.- General George Patton. Think about that.
Hunt built...”a largish FBI/CIA combo outfit with veterans who had lots of chits to call in internationally.”
100% true. They likely fought over who would be included in Dallas.
If you are really interested in this I’d suggest you check out:
JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6830318/
These former US spooks talk to his Soviet handlers anonymously and they completely confirm that Oswell wasn’t even OKed to collect intel, track boats or do ANYTHING with the Soviet Union and didn’t get CLOSE to making the grade.
He tried to be an agent for the Soviet Union, and they wouldn’t touch him with a 10-foot pole.
There are too many inconsistencies and eyewitnesses that contradict the WC Report. And then there are the quickly dead witness and those who exited the country shortly thereafter.
“Over 80% of the people believe there was”
And 99.9% of them haven’t read even a single line of the Warren Report.
The Gallup Poll has the number at 61% but it doesn’t matter either way since polling isn’t a substitute for evidence.
Exactly. And oddly enough I think in both cases they volunteered. You wonder how many others there are that don’t make the news.
My take is that Oswald was a willing false defector to the Soviet Union in a CIA plan to surface a KGB mole in the CIA.
He failed.
They used him for other stuff like baiting both pro-Castro groups such as the FPFC in New Orleans and Dallas.
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