Posted on 01/26/2023 6:17:05 AM PST by Red Badger
Tucker Carlson made some explosive assertions recently, suggesting that the CIA and the FBI brought down Richard Nixon because he was on to their efforts to undermine the American system as the Founding Fathers had intended it to run and knew that the CIA was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Carlson’s segment quickly became wildly controversial, but is it true? We may never know for sure — and that in itself demonstrates yet again the need to demand and enforce complete transparency and accountability from these agencies that all too easily can go rogue.
Carlson said: “Richard Nixon was re-elected in 1972 by the largest margin of the popular vote ever recorded before or since. Nixon got 17 million more votes than his opponent. Less than two years later, he was gone. He was forced to resign and in his place, an obedient servant of the federal agencies called Gerald Ford took over the White House.” Carlson went on to explain that Nixon believed that “elements in the federal bureaucracy were working to undermine the American system of government and had been doing that for a long time. He often said that.” He suggested that CIA and FBI operatives orchestrated both the Watergate break-in and the two-year-long firestorm that brought Nixon down.
According to Carlson, “on June 23, 1972, Nixon met with the then–CIA director, Richard Helms, at the White House. During the conversation, which thankfully was tape-recorded, Nixon suggested he knew ‘who shot John,’ meaning President John F. Kennedy. Nixon further implied that the CIA was directly involved in Kennedy’s assassination, which we now know it was. Helms’s telling response? Total silence, but for Nixon, it didn’t matter because it was already over. Four days before, on June 19, the Washington Post had published the first of many stories about a break-in at the Watergate office building.” This doesn’t add up to the CIA deciding to take out Nixon, since the break-in and the Post story both happened before the president’s conversation with Helms, unless Nixon had enunciated this before the break-in.
And he had. Tucker Carlson actually got the date wrong. The Nixon/Helms conversation didn’t take place on June 23, 1972, but on Oct. 8, 1971 (it’s further mislabeled on this audio file as taking place on Oct. 10, 1971, but the Nixon tape logs set the meeting on the 8th). Nixon said to Helms: “Uh, Who shot John [JFK]? Uh, is Eisenhower to blame? Is Johnson to blame? Is Kennedy to blame? Is Nixon to blame? Etcetera etcetera etcetera. [This] may become, may become, not by me, but may become a very, very, uh, vigorous issue. If it does, uh, I need to know what is necessary to protect our inquiries, the intelligence gathering and the Dirty Tricks Department. And I will protect it. Hey listen, I’ve done more than my share of lying to protect it. I will do it and I believe it’s totally right to do it.”
This is not all that clear or straightforward a statement, but it does give the impression, since Nixon was talking to the head of the CIA, that the “Dirty Tricks Department” was involved in the killing of Kennedy and might need protection if the full truth about the assassination came out. President Kennedy’s nephew, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., affirmed in December, in response to an earlier Tucker Carlson broadcast, that “the CIA’s murder of my uncle was a successful coup d’état from which our democracy has never recovered.” Yet in the fifty years since Nixon’s conversation with Helms, the Kennedy assassination, while spawning a cottage industry of alternative explanations to the Warren Commission report, has never really become a “very, very vigorous issue,” at least to the extent that the CIA’s role, if any, has been revealed.
Could it ever be? If the CIA really was involved in killing Kennedy and forcing Nixon to resign (which would apparently require Helms to have brushed aside Nixon’s declarations that he would protect the “Dirty Tricks Department” and to have focused solely on Nixon’s revelation that he knew about that department at all) will the American people ever know that for sure?
On Dec. 22, 1963, exactly one month after the Kennedy assassination, former President Harry Truman wrote in the Washington Post that “for some time I have been disturbed by the way [the] CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.” He added, “We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.”
Yet it has never been corrected. The CIA and FBI are almost completely unaccountable to anyone and, it is increasingly obvious, deeply corrupt and politicized. Does anyone have the courage, or the ability, to face down these rogue agencies?
Remember G Gordon Liddy?
He was die hard supporter of J Edward Hoover.
And Liddy never told anything, unlike the maggot John Dean.
G Gordon Liddy (died in 2021)
https://spartacus-educational.com/spartacus-blogURL141.htm
And John Dean
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19910710&slug=1293716
See my post #21
Uhhhh..
Nixon got rid of himself...
Covering up the cover up is a crime...
I think Nixon’s lucky they didn’t just off him like they did JFK.
Is there ANY DOUBT that the CIA did this, or that they killed JFK?? I have NO DOUBT what so ever our intel are SCUM, they totally lied about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq because THEY WANTED regime change!! They are completely involved in what happened in Brazil, they are NOW trying their damndest to get rid of BB in Israel, they created this mess with Russia and Ukraine!! I believe that Ukraine is extorting Biden and the regime Biden is the MOST corrupt POTUS EVER!! The Jan 6 was a TOTAL SETUP by our intel community also!! If Putin decides to light off a nuke I hope he does right in DC blow the entire damn thing up such corruption ENTRENCHED there not only elected officials but UNELECTED bureaucrats destroying this nation!! There is NOT ONE agency there that is not on the take by China, big Pharma, defense contractors, Wall Street, ect.
We need to get a trusted person, appointed by a GOP POTUS, in the position of the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and under them to take on only as necessary, obligations being pursued by the CIA. Then kill the CIA.
Hard core Leftist were entrenched in the OSS just like they are in the CIA.
Bear, woods, scat, some assembly required.
Richard Nixon’s book Silent Coup a good read
Nixon was there through the Ike years as VP and likely knew lots of dirt on the CIA’s behavior which from all accounts has been an abomination to it’s original mission.
For whatever reason the CIA decided he had to go and removed him with an eager Democrat party’s help. This agency has been rogue since Ike lost control of them in the 50’s and now the FBI rogue agency. I wonder, pitting the FBI against the CIA, divide and conquer?
The securities agencies did what they could to get rid of Trump. They also played a role in getting rid of Nixon, but it was mostly Nixon who dug the hole he fell into. I don’t really buy the rest.
Kennedy wasn’t the great rebel or threat to the Establishment. The CIA was involved in a lot of things that they didn’t want revealed, but I really doubt they had JFK killed. Reagan wasn’t the first choice of the Deep State, but they weren’t trying to get rid of him. He was winning the Cold War for them.
And as for Johnson, the Deep State recognized that he was a liability, but so did the rest of the country. If the CIA had liked him and managed to get him elected again in 1968, that would have been a real demonstration of their power.
Blacklisted, maybe tried for treason.
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