Just a question:
Has anybody written about the possible motives of CIA or the Deep State for assassinating JFK?
My takeaway, after 40 years of close study of every new twist and information release.
1. Lee Harvey Oswald was a fervent, dedicated Communist lunatic that was so nuts even the USSR deported him back to the USA.
2. It was well known by the FBI that he was a dedicated raving Communist lunatic.
3. Oswald traveled by bus all the way to Mexico City just before the assassinations and basically rang the bell on the gates of the Cuban and Russian embassies, trying to get a visa to move to Cuba. It appears he was rejected, his lunacy well known to both countries. Both embassies had CIA watch-stations across the street filming every single person going in and out for espionage links etc. Every person entering is logged and checked out. They knew Oswald, the defector to the USSR who returned to Texas, visited both embassies. This should have been a bright red rocket getting their attention, with “flash” notices to the FBI to keep an eye on Oswald at a minimum.
4. He returned to Dallas and to his conveniently located job at the Dallas Book Depository, which conveniently turned out to have the perfect sniper’s location for the JFK motorcade. He turned down better paying jobs to keep the Dallas Book Depository job.
Conclusion A — The Best Look:
The CIA, FBI and Secret Service are even after 60 years covering up their gross incompetence in not scooping up this high-profile fervent Communist lunatic, who was extremely pissed at JFK over the Bay of Pigs etc. They are to this day afraid to let the American people know what incompetent clowns they were in real life, at the height of the Cold War, right after the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis.
Conclusion B — The Worst Look: They knew or strongly suspected that Oswald wanted to kill JFK. “Somebody” (very likely Oswald) had tried to assassinate retired Major General Edwin Walker, and ardent anti-Communist, with the same 6.5mm rifle in April of 1963.
Oswald was on the radars of the CIA, FBI and Secret Service. They pretended not to notice him, even though there were many connections between the intel agencies and Oswald. The motorcade route passing under the Book Depository was even published in the local newspapers. The CIA/FBI nexus let Oswald take the shots.
It’s a Government of the Government, by the Government, for the Government.
JFK and Trump weren’t in for this part.
Previous requests to withhold documents have come from the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Because both agencies were involved in the assassination.
Everything old is new again. In Ancient Rome, the Praetorian Guard, initially charged with protecting the emperor, soon learned with their power that they could control the emperor, then direct the selection of the emperor. Later, with their power unchecked, they were responsible for assassinating several emperors who displeased them or who challenged their authority. The guard dog eventually eats the owner.
Second gunman on the grassy knoll.
Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA sleeper agent.
Jack Ruby was another CIA sleeper agent.
The hit was ordered by Johnson or his Texas Mafia
“National security concerns” does not mean what I always thought it meant.
Thank you all who answered my motive question.
Well then the conclusion is that the CIA/FBI took an active part in the assassination. If they want to prove otherwise, release the papers.
” citing national security concerns”
The old standby.
Probably who was the master mind of it and who gave the direct orders for it.
The approximately 400 pages concerning the JFK assassination that FBI-CIA refuse to release is the issue. What possible reason can there be to not release documents over 50 years old? I think the answer is “There is a there there”, that is, CYA for all the mistakes made.
What if Kennedy was not the target?
Connolly had been SecNav in the early years of the Kennedy administration(18 months) and had the opportunity to change Oswald's Undesirable Discharge(in use at the time) to Less than Honorable for better benefits.
Connolly refused, enraging Oswald. Mens Rea.
Dallas was motive and opportunity.
Always hide things with your name on it.
They’re hiding the FBI’s involvement.
You literally COULD NOT ask a more absurd, banal question.
The most coveted possessions of ALL intelligence services are sources, methods and abilities. Those are to be safeguarded at ALL costs.
The very question is both obtuse and naïve.