Posted on 03/22/2025 3:28:53 PM PDT by Steely Tom
Yeah I would tell a garage door repairman all about the Kennedy assassination.
But my favorite is the guy was told a lot more details he “doesn’t feel like writing about”.
Sure, I mean, why bother.
I’m not an expert on Angleton, although I’ve heard about him plenty over the years.
He was puzzle-obsessed, as I understand it. Like the people who were hired by the British to work at Bletchley Park during WWII, as codebreakers.
I know he eventually unhinged his own mind with all his hall-of-mirrors stuff.
I think Tom Clancy mentions his story in at least one of his novels.
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Sure, I mean, why bother.
Fair enough. I can't vouch for his honesty.
Take it for what it's worth.
Yes, that’s it...Why when the years go by do we have more trouble remembering names than anything else? Actors/movies/books/TV shows. I drive myself crazy trying to remember BUT whatever it is will come to me a few minutes later or in the middle of the night!!
Dates don’t seem to be a problem - family or friend birthdays etc. Who can forget 12/7/41, 11/22/63 or 9/11/2001?
Thanks...
He’s not as nice to look at as Rebecca De Mornay.
So, the Warren Commission report, what’s your take on that ? Gospel or Fairy Tale ?
Btw there are a ton of new Angleton documents in the recently released JFK files.
Among them were the unredacted testimony he gave to a Senate Committee in the mid 1970s in which he basically admitted he defied JFK and helped Israel get the atomic bomb.
While some of us “conspiracy theorists” had been claiming this for years after Seymour Hersch wrote his book on the Israeli nuclear program it is now a “conspiracy fact”.
If you want to go deeper down that rabbit hole you have to go back to World War II when Angleton was working for military intelligence in Italy and created a quid pro quo with Jews fleeing Europe. He helped them escape but in return got to use them as future intelligence assets.
As a result Angleton and future Mossad leadership had a close personal relationship which predated both the 1947 founding of the CIA and the creation of the state of Israel.
Angleton has a statue in his honor in Israel:
Bottom line: If the JFK assassination seems like a ridiculously complex “hall of mirrors” with a whole bunch of totally legitimate suspects that is at least partially due to the machinations of Angleton. It has his “touch”.
Joe Pesci. I believe TLJ played Guy Bannister
I never heard that he made it to Cuba.
A person identifying himself as Lee Harvey Oswald tried to get a Cuba visa in Mexico City, but was turned away at the Cuban Embassy. There is some doubt that this person was actually Oswald, as I understand it.
As to the the Walker assassination, it’s strange, and I can’t explain it. I just don’t know what it means, other than that Oswald was a hard-core communist. Maybe he was.
I see. Thanks for the Angleton history, which I didn’t know.
There were also tendrils of WWII history between the Mafia, the Kennedy family, and Joe Kennedy’s no-holds-barred efforts to push JFK over the finish line in 1960.
Didn’t the Israelis launch their nuclear bomb program with U-235 enriched fuel stolen from the US or Canada? I can’t remember. Was it destined for the Shippingport Atomic Power Station?
I do not know the technical details of the Israeli program.
The mob connection also goes all the way back to World War II Italy—where Angleton worked with them as well.
Angleton has ties to all the players—and is one of the very few individuals who had the means, motive and opportunity to plan and execute the details of the assassination and the coverup which followed.
Wow. Interesting how pulling out all the stops to fight a “total war” had such far-reaching, and cataclysmic, consequences. We still feel them today.
Joe Pechi.
Yup—key to the concept of a Deep State are informal networks of trust—and of course trust takes many years to develop.
These folks had worked together for two decades.
Correct—now I remember.
Pesci was awesome.
It was the Continuum of Intergalactic Aliens.
I guess the battles of WWII continued to be fought for 35 years after 1945, if not longer.
Our current problems with North Korea, for example, are echoes of WWII.
Ha ha! Very good!
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