Posted on 01/14/2017 9:18:11 AM PST by TigerClaws
After the Bay of Pigs fiasco in the early 60s, John F. Kennedy forced out then-director of the CIA, Allen Dulles, replacing him with engineer John McCone. McCone was an outsider to the boys club at the CIA, and Kennedy hoped the new director might shake things up and bring a fresh perspective to the organization. When Kennedy was assassinated, McCone faced the Warren Commission as the chief proponent of the Lone Gunman theory the assertion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
In September of 2014, 50 years after his death, the CIA released a classified document related to the investigation into the Kennedy assassination. It concedes that more than 70 percent of the American public believes Kennedys death was part of a larger conspiracy, and admits that McCone kept a lot of information secret that could have aided the commissions investigation.
CIA historian David Robarge included this classified report with his biography of John McCone, who died in 1991. The biography is still unpublished, but the CIA has gone public with the report in order to highlight misconceptions about the CIAs connection to JFKs assassination (according to their statement to POLITICO).
Chief among the facts that were never brought to light during the hearings were the multiple assassination attempts of Fidel Castro by the CIA, and even the mafia, which could have led to the possibility of a retaliation on Cubas part. Undocumented conversations took place after JFKs death between attorney general Robert Kennedy and McCone; Robert Kennedys awareness of the CIAs attempts on Castros life makes it difficult to conclude he wasnt also afraid that Cuba had a part in his brothers death. The attempts on Castros life were later made public in the 70s, but this declassified document adds new background information to the commonly accepted idea that the CIA knew more about Kennedys murder than they told us. Kennedy At Dallas
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One example of CIA obfuscation: The agency was apparently tracking Oswald before 1963, after he tried to defect to the Soviet Union in the 50s. It was part of an incredibly illegal operation called HTLINGUAL that had the CIA opening peoples mail. Its obvious why the agency wouldnt want that to come out during a murder investigation. It also demonstrates a knowledge of a known threat in Oswald, years before the agency says he went rogue and killed Kennedy:
Max Holland, one of the most fair minded scholars of these events, has concluded that if the word conspiracy must be uttered in the same breath as Kennedy assassination, the only one that existed was the conspiracy to kill Castro and then keep that effort secret after November 22nd. In that sense and that sense alone McCone may be regarded as a co-conspirator in the JFK assassination cover-up.
The agency still maintains that this information is benign, claiming McCone didnt think Cuba was involved in Kennedys death. The picture painted by the report is that he was hands-on in dealing with the Warren Commission, and he kept past actions of the agency a secret to ensure Oswalds conviction. McCone allegedly was certain that Oswald acted alone, so he pushed that agenda.
Being that most of the CIA activity with Cuba happened before McCones time with the organization, its a wonder why he went to such great lengths to cover up the past directors actions. The report offers no conclusive answer for that, but does hint that the Johnson administration was involved in the cover-up:
[McCone] shared the administrations interest in avoiding disclosures about covert actions that would circumstantially implicate [the] CIA in conspiracy theories and possibly lead to calls for a tough US response against the perpetrators of the assassination If the commission did not know to ask about covert operations about Cuba, he was not going to give them any suggestions about where to look.
The report also alleges that McCone was not conspiring with Dulles, his predecessor and a member of the commission, to cover up past deeds at the CIA. But he could.
Rest assured that his predecessor would keep a dutiful watch over Agency equities and work to keep the commission from pursuing provocative lines of investigation, such as lethal anti-Castro covert actions.
Despite withholding evidence from the Warren Commission, the surviving members of that investigation still believe that ballistic information proves Oswald acted alone. The importance of this classified document going public is that it shifts blame for faulty investigative work from the Warren Commission to McCones deception. The CIA also insists it had nothing to do with a conspiracy by the U.S. government to kill Kennedy. Kennedy Assassination
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The lack of interest around this declassified report (there are still 15 blanked out areas of the statement that involve names and places, presumably for security reasons) is a sad statement about how little we are surprised that the government covers up its own misdeeds. The assassination of John F. Kennedy is a major part of our recent history, yet news that our spy agency was active in hiding the truth from a major investigation into JFKS death seems to have become something of a passing interest.
Warren Commission chief investigator David Slawson agrees.
The world loses interest, because the assassination becomes just a matter of history to more and more people.
Its not exactly tinfoil hat-level stuff, but conspiracy theorists could argue with some merit that its easy to admit to a small lie in order to spare a bigger one. (And real conspiracy theorists would say, THIS IS J.F.K. WERE TALKING ABOUT. HOW DID THIS NOT HIT THE NEWS CYCLE?)
Then of course there is the worry natural when someone finds out theyve been lied to that perhaps a bigger set of lies is still out there somewhere.
How times have changed...
JFK hated the CIA for their role in Bay of Pigs
The Oswald “lone nut” theory has more holes than a Claymore party.
Wait, ... which of us do the Democrats hate today?
Curious that Bush 41 rose to be CIA Director. A photo from Dealey Plaza shows what appears to be a young GHWB standing in front of the school book depository. Google and Youtube searches will produce the image, but I’d say inconclusive.
JFK would be an “America First” conservative leader if he were active today. Who benefited most from JFK’ death? The globalists. The Democrat Party was never the same after that event.
Truman founded the CIA!
Shortly, after JFK was killed, he wanted to limit the CIA to Intel collection.
HST founded the CIA, and he realized his creation had become something he didn’t want and became what/why he ended the OSS after WWII was over.
HST wrote this shortly after JFK was killed:
Harry Truman Writes:
Limit CIA Role (To Intelligence collection)
By Harry S Truman, INDEPENDENCE, MO., Dec. 21 1963
http://www.maebrussell.com/Prouty/Harry%20Truman’s%20CIA%20article.html
So, a simple ExO by Trump reversing/destroying Trumans EXo to end the OSS and to start the CIA, can eliminate the CIA.
People really need to pay attention; not only are the MSM, McCain and Company trying to take Trump down- they are pushing us toward war with Russia.
More likely this is an illegal conspiracy against the government itself, against the constitutional process.
In any other country such a conspiracy crossing party lines and government organizations would result in a rounding up of perpetrators.
This borders on treason or overthrow of the government. It is no longer “fun and games”. This is big time international conspiracy.
123 posted on 1/11/2017, 6:02:33 PM by Rapscallion (The opposite of charity is justice. I favor justice every time.)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3512969/posts?page=123#123
Suddenly a globalist is in charge.
Chuck Schumer to Trump:
“I tell ya. You take on the intelligence community they have 6 ways from Sunday at getting back at you.
Who benefited most? Who became president? Who ramped up the Vietnam War? Who made money off that war? Who was the money behind LBJ? How did Brown and Root make its money? What did LBJ owe B&R for stealing his 1948 senate election;for stealing the 1960 presidential election?
Your question isn’t really very difficult to answer.
FR dqban22 wrote this last year, it needs to be repeated:
Who ignore history is damned to repeat it. George Santayana.
JFKs dreary account of mismanagement, timidity and indecision as Eisenhower described his handling of the Bay of Pigs invasion emboldened the Soviets to install Nuclear missiles in Cuba the following year.
Khrushchev documents in his memoirs how Castro pleaded with him to launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the U.S. in October of 1962. The telegram making the plea sits in the Kennedy Library today. Some think Khrushchevs fear of Castros officers somehow getting hold of the Nuclear buttons was a bigger factor in his decision to remove the Missiles than the blockade (in fact, 55 ships breached it) imposed by the Kennedy administration around Cuba at the time.
The prudence of Khrushchevs decision was revealed the following month by Castros second- in - command, Che Guevara. If the missiles had remained, he told The London Daily Worker in November 1962 We would have used them against the very heart of the U.S., including New York. We must never establish peaceful co-existence. In this struggle to the death between 2 systems we must gain the ultimate victory. We must walk the path of liberation even if it costs millions of atomic victims.
He didnt get his hands on the missiles but Castro emerged the big winner of the Missile Crisis. Many concessions were made by the Americans about which not a word has been said...perhaps one day theyll be made public, said Fidel Castro in a speech in 1966.
We cant say anything public about this agreement. It would be too much of a political embarrassment for us. Thats Robert F Kennedy to Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in October of 1962.
The Cuban regime tried to obliterate New York and Washington with a nuclear attack during the October Missile Crisis of 1962. In November 1962, the Castro brothers and Che Guevaras agents had targeted Macys, Gimbels, Bloomingdales, and Manhattans Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The Holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving. (Humberto Fontova)
Castro has been a strong ally of Islamic terrorism. Cuba continues to serve as a base for coordination and mutual support among transnational terrorist organizations. At Tehran University he stated to the thunderous applause of students and faculty, The imperialist king will finally fall, (AFP, May 10, 2001). Immediately afterward the Iranian Press Service proudly proclaimed that Iran and Cuba reached the conclusion that together they can tear down the United States. (IPS, May 10, 2001).
According to World renown and highly respected American investigative journalist and author, Claire Sterling, : All of the worlds emerging terrorist bands in the 1970s were indebted to the Cubans and their Russian patrons for that honeycomb of camps around Havana. None could have started without rudimentary training, and those who didnt train in Cuba were trained by others who did. (The Terror Network, The Secret War on International Terrorism.)
As reported by Sterling, Castro was training the advance guards of the coming European fright decade Palestinians, Italians, Germans, French, Spanish Basques and forming guerrilla nuclei in practically every Western hemisphere state south of the American border. As far back as 1962, Castros camps were taking in 1,500 Latin American guerrillas a year. . Any revolutionary movement anywhere in the world can count on Cubas unconditional support, declared Castro at the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana. It was then and there that the international terrorism network was consolidated under Castros leadership.
Fidel Castro jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six. He came closer than anyone in history to starting a world-wide nuclear war. Humberto Fontova. (http://www.carolinajournal.com/opinions/display_story.html?id=11121)
It is suicidal turning a blind eye to Castro, a deadly enemy at 90 miles south of Key West that does not hide his hatred for U.S.
After the restoration of diplomatic relations comes the end of the embargo.
To complete Obamas betrayal of the American people, with the normalization of relations and reversal of the wet foot /dry foot policy comes the opening to Cuba of the American and International bank credits that will sustain the Cuban regimen passing to the American taxpayers the same heavy burden that helped to bankrupt the Soviet Union.
Dont fool yourself, the hatred of the Cuban Stalinist regime towards U.S. remains the same today as 50 years ago, and Cuba was and remain a threat to the security of United. There is a Chinese spy base 50 miles of Havana and a Russian spy station in Havana outskirts. Both capable of listening or US. communications and cyber warfare.
Interesting!
Makes sense, given his famous speech, Ask not what your country can do for you, etc...
The CIA will fabricate whatever they are told to fabricate. Don’t trust ‘suddenly declassified’ documents, especially in the age of enemy Brennan.
Misinformation, disinformation and repeats of lies. That is all this article is. Oswald was CIA, how else can a man go to the USSR, marry a Russian, then be allowed back into the US? He was simply what he claimed to be, a patsy. He was placed in the right place at the wrong time while LBJ, the “dark side of the CIA” and organized crime worked hand in glove like they have many times. LBJ was in a similar position as Hillary in 2016 with the evidence piling up against her. If he did not stay in power as VP or gain the Presidency, there was an avalanche of excrement ready to bury him. Roger Stones book on the JFK assassination lays out a compelling case of this.
And Bergoglio was plunged into grief by the death of this homicidal maniac.
Bing for EMMA BONINO POPE FRANCIS
She’s still tweeting today, so we are to assume she’s still alive—Emma Bonino
@ emmabonino ECFR co-chair; Former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs; former EU Commissioner
Or you meant Fidel Castro, yea he’s good and dead.
Trump’s winning was the ME’s Official Cause of Death for Fidel.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3498851/posts
By “homicidal maniac” I meant Fidel.
I intended Bonino as additional evidence that Bergoglio loves murder. Like all Leftists, he admires people who have the courage of their convictions (which he lacks) and actually get out there and do some killing.
Exactly. But Hillary makes LBJ look like a piker, her transgressions are much more egregious than Johnson’s.
With just a glance at some of the information compiled by JFK researchers it’s obvious that LHO was set up as the patsy. He was conveniently recorded, filmed, or pre-positioned in a number of activities so he could take the fall. With modern documentary forensics, none of these tricks would have passed muster. They are quite crude and easily discredited. And they hired other guys, some Cubans along the way to help set LHO up and add to legitimacy to the scheme. (Most if not all of the DRE were likely playing for the CIA.) That’s where Raphael fits into the picture and GHWB’s involvement comes into play.
Of the 60,000 JFK classified files remaining, it would be shocking if they have not been altered or replaced prior to Trump authorizing their legal release next October.
. A photo from Dealey Plaza shows what appears to be a young GHWB standing in front of the school book depository.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3428761/posts?page=236#236
It thought it was confirmed GHWB was in Dallas that day and corresponded to DC from a hotel.
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