Posted on 11/10/2021 12:02:06 PM PST by Kaslin
Here in the capital city of France, so many people here have a tough time believing that the version of President John F. Kennedy's assassination set in stone by the Warren Commission -- the one concluding that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he fired a bullet with a debatable trajectory into a sitting American president from the sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository 58 years ago. All you really need to know about French skepticism of official government narratives is that this is the country whose citizens still vividly recall the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine in 1986 and the French government's downplaying of the subsequent radioactive cloud that floated across France, despite the panic in neighboring Germany at the time.
Now, some new JFK revelations risk propagating the notion that the U.S. government can be trusted about as much as France's. "Cuban exile told sons he trained Oswald, JFK's accused assassin, at a secret CIA camp," reads a Miami Herald headline published on Oct. 30. The story explains that Ricardo Morales, a sniper instructor working for the CIA to train Cuban exiles in an attempt to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s, had trained Lee Harvey Oswald in CIA-backed training.
But what would Lee Harvey Oswald have been doing among member of what appears to be Brigade 2506 or Alpha 66 or another such CIA-linked dissident group? These recruits were mostly Cuban expats recruited by the CIA in Miami and covertly trained in Guatemala, Florida, Louisiana, and Alabama in an attempt to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
It's hard to imagine why Oswald might have found himself attracted to the political and ideological crusade of anti-Castro obsessives who, at the time of Kennedy's death, were upset that Castro hadn't yet met the same fate, particularly since Oswald's loyalties seemed to be the opposite. Various sources report that Oswald had "actively advocated" in favor of Castro. So it would only make sense that Oswald hung out with Cuban dissidents to spy on them for the Castro government -- something that former CIA officer Bob Baer has also argued in a History Channel series, "JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald". Barr's research places Oswald in contact with the Cuban dissident group Alpha 66 and with Cuban intelligence officials, notably during a trip to Mexico City.
If all this is true, then Oswald had both American and Cuban intelligence contacts and would have had the opportunity to act as a double agent. It's not a stretch to imagine how someone like him could be easily manipulated by intelligence professionals to at least show up somewhere on command when warranted. Which could explain Oswald's response when asked by a reporter in the wake of the assassination, "Did you shoot the President?" To which he replied, "No. I'm just a patsy."
The optics of Oswald's active involvement in the Cuban dissident movement make it easy to frame the CIA as the master manipulator with a role in JFK's death. And his pro-Castro activism and contacts with Cuban intelligence noted by the CIA provide a convenient link between JFK's death and the Castro government.
If anyone wanted to deliberately muddy the waters, then Oswald would have indeed been the ideal useful idiot to serve as cover. And this new information about Oswald's background and contacts underscores why so many years later, people still don't feel that they have the whole story.
In 1992, Congress moved to declassify all documents related to the assassination by Oct. 26, 2017, in response to public outrage provoked by Oliver Stone's Hollywood movie, "JFK", discrediting the official government narrative. Former President Donald Trump delayed the declassification, citing "national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns," and "potentially irreversible harm to our Nation's security."
Likewise, resident Joe Biden also cited national security concerns in withholding the release of the documents. "Temporary continued postponement is necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure," reads a White House memo.
Both of these White House assertions arguably point to CIA shenanigans. Why else would the U.S. government keep wanting to protect Fidel Castro if Oswald was serving as a Cuban asset? Similarly, if Oswald acted alone, as the government's longstanding theory claims, then why keep protecting a dead man?
If declassifying the JFK assassination files risks harming U.S. national security, as the state keeps claiming, then what other dodgy official narratives are also being protected right now under the pretext of "national security" while leading citizens to believe lies or part truths?
I remember that shoot down. Gary Francis Powers. Really p-od a lot of people that more wasn’t done.
My Granny was muttering about it all day long — and she was usually just listening to preachers on the radio all day long so it was a bit different.
JFK signed the prisoner exchange that allowed him to come back to the USA.
What convinced me that the LBJ theory was the most logical was his mistress. Every other theory was wild and complicated and would surely have someone singing after 50 years.
The LBJ theory was simple and to the point. LBJ craved political power. He was nothing without JFK. The Billie Sol Estes scandal was about to blow up and JFK was cruising toward re-election but might not be able to keep LBJ on the ticket because of the scandal.
Thus the need to have him make a campaign appearance on LBJ's home turf and fly from Ft. Worth to Dallas that morning rather than take a direct motorcade just slightly longer than the one from Love Field.
LBJ's mistress said he was always kind an tender to her except for one time when she worked up the nerve to ask him about that rumor and he warned her to never bring up the topic again. I could read the fear in her eyes.
Elaborate please. I never knew theey tried to off DeGaulle!
In 1992, Congress moved to declassify all documents related to the assassination by Oct. 26, 2017, in response to public outrage provoked by Oliver Stone's Hollywood movie, "JFK", discrediting the official government narrative. Former President Donald Trump delayed the declassification, citing "national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns," and "potentially irreversible harm to our Nation's security."
Yeah, Oliver Stone, good reason. /barf
Like the Warren Commission, Oliver Stone dismissed the Mafia involvement, which BTW is the only common thread in JFK's assassination.
circle back on this, rx.
thanx
Agreed that LBJ was in it before and after the fact for sure.
Roger Stone has an excellent book on this:
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Killed-Kennedy-Against/dp/1629144894
The assassination plot really was complicated. We know this because we have the deathbed confession of E. Howard Hunt that he led a CIA logistics team for the assassination:
https://www.amazon.com/Bond-Secrecy-Watergate-Conspirator-Howard-ebook/dp/B00A64PY1U
Imho the Mafia was also involved in all stages—including getting Jack Ruby to shut up Oswald.
This was “The Event”—where assassins from all over the world, from intelligence agencies and organized crime—came to Dallas to celebrate their craft.
There were dozens of potential suspects on scene—which would make any serious investigation extremely difficult—one big shell game.
sorry. been bush
it was me scanning the news today & I was making a note to “circle back” on your post when I had more time.
“I remember that shoot down. Gary Francis Powers. Really p-od a lot of people that more wasn’t done.”
What else would they want done?
Being a youngster at the time, I really didn’t understand/pay a lot of attention to all the mutterings that I heard from the Adults. And since it was well over half a century ago, I don’t recall a lot of details about those discussions.
I do recall my Granny saying if Eisenhower leaves that Man in Russia, I’ll never vote Republican again. Didn’t seem to be a reasonable choice to me. shrug
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