Posted on 01/07/2013 3:18:34 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
AN explosive new book by a former Foreign Service diplomat reveals evidence which proves the Soviets were behind the assassination of the US President John F Kennedy five decades ago.
Robert Holmes, who worked for the British Government in Moscow for two years in the early Sixties, claims the KGB coerced US-born Lee Harvey Oswald into committing the shooting on November 22, 1963.
Mr Holmes, from Houston, Renfrewshire, believes the Soviet Union – seeking revenge for the West’s “victory” during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis – sent officers to meet Oswald weeks before the murder.
The 72-year-old who held a number of jobs in the diplomatic services during the Cold War, said his theory is supported by “compelling circumstantial evidence” collected during three-and-a-half years of research.
His 325-page book, A Spy Like No Other, focuses on the actions of little-known Stalinist and one-time head of the KGB Ivan Serov, who Mr Holmes believes played a vital role in the assassination.
“There is no doubt in my mind that circumstantial evidence points to Serov having the right characteristics and capabilities to implement such a scheme,” he said. “I truly believe that Serov was responsible for the assassination of Kennedy.
“The book is based on my experiences working in the Foreign Office in London and the time I spent in Moscow in 1961 and 1962.
“That’s when there was a lot going on with espionage, and things were exciting in the British Foreign Service.”
Mr Holmes insists that Serov, along with Stalinist allies Yuri Andropov and Vladimir Kryuchkov, conspired behind the back of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to take revenge on Kennedy for forcing the removal of Russian weapons from Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
He surmises that Oswald was given his orders during a meeting with three Russian “diplomats” – who were, in reality, officers of the KGB – in Mexico City on a Saturday morning 55 days before the assassination.
One of those officers involved was Valery Kostikov, who was known by the CIA to be a specialist in assassination.
It was later said that the discussions were in relation to Oswald’s application for a Soviet Union visa, but Mr Holmes disagrees.
Pointing out that Serov undoubtedly would have known Kostikov, Mr Holmes said: “Three KGB officers would never give up their Saturday morning to discuss visa issues – he would have simply been handed a form and told to return on Monday.
“Immediately after the meeting, they then sent a classified telegram to Moscow – there was something special going on there.”
Serov disappeared in apparent “disgrace” in March 1963 after one of his officers, Oleg Penkovsky was unmasked as an undercover British agent. It was rumoured Serov became an alcoholic and killed himself, but he lived until 1990. However, Mr Holmes believes this was merely a front, masking his involvement in the assassination eight months later.
Providing a detailed account on what was going on behind the scenes between Stalin’s death in March 1953 and President Kennedy’s assassination 10 years later, the book reveals a web of espionage activity and throws light on the actions of the Soviet, American and British security services.
It covers incidents such as the Berlin Spy Tunnel built by US and British agents to intercept Russian phone calls; the treachery of George Blake, a Soviet spy working within MI6; the 1956 Hungarian uprising, and the CIA’s efforts to remove Castro.
Recalling his two years in Moscow, Mr Holmes admitted he had mixed memories of the time he spent in the capital.
He said: “There was very little food, especially fruit and vegetables, and we were always aware that we were constantly being followed by members of the KGB.
“We had to suspect that every room we were in, including our own personal residences, were bugged and we were not allowed to socialise with the Soviets at all.
“Security was paramount and we had to be very, very careful in Moscow. It was difficult at times, but very interesting. There was a feeling that we were part of what was happening.”
Mr Holmes was born and educated in Northern Ireland and was recruited to the British Foreign Services in 1957 as a junior before working his way up the ladder.
He held various positions, which involved consular, political, commercial and management roles, and was posted to Moscow in 1961. He also served in Budapest, Santiago, Chicago and Madrid.
After retiring in 1994 with the rank of First Secretary, he worked for the University of Glasgow for four years and then went on to set up his own consultancy company before turning to writing.
I think it was organized crime.
John and Robert Kennedy as AG, both assassinated, both were coming down on the organized crime figures clamping down on the mob, while their father was part of that life as a bootleggger,,, and the Mob has a particularly nasty tradition of dealing with traitors harshly. And covering their tracks.
The KGB would have done it better than Oswald, I agree. The mob would be even better.
We have been consistently lied to about the Kennedy assassination, beginning with the leftist Mark Lane’s “Rush to Judgment”.
One of the big myths of the Kennedys was they were trying to destroy the Mafia. His grandfather said the Kennedys were trying to get control of The Business, not destroy it.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, one thing they learned was the USSR wasn't a govt as we understand it, but was an organized crime syndicate.
Had the Kennedys gotten control of organized crime in this country with the entire backing of the US govt., they would have been in direct competition with organized crime in the USSR which was backed by the govt.
I believe there was a combination of organized crime and the USSR behind it.
Happy New Eric
Most of the evidence points to Lee Oswald being an informant for the feds (how else do you explain his easy return with Russian wife to the States and his "Fair Play for Cuba" office being located in the same building as the FBI?).
Don't get me wrong - if some arm of our government did get JFK, praise to them. JFK was an enormous danger to the world and getting worse every day. People forget how incredibly dangerous things were back then, how hair-trigger our relations got with the Sovs and how close we came to worldwide extinction. He was infamously fast and loose with the Constitution and the press let him get away with everything. Remember that JFK was responsible for several successful and attempted assassinations (Patrice Lumumba, Dag Hammerschold, Ngo Dinh Diem, and tries at Castro) so in a sense, he died by his own sword.
You'll be pleased to know I invested in one of those Heiney vehicles...
We Marines appreciate your vote of confidence but even we can miss a critical target if a weapons isn’t properly zeroed: remember that Oswald supposedly to a shot at a General Walker earlier and missed him at close range with that same rifle.
We Marines appreciate your vote of confidence but even we can miss a critical target if a weapons isn’t properly zeroed: remember that Oswald supposedly took a shot at a General Walker earlier and missed him at close range with that same rifle.
yeah lots of unanswered questions....
scary to think our ‘free society’ is controlled by so many criminals....like right now for instance.
by the way, I buy and use your powder...
also use IMR 4320 and IMR 4831 and H 4831 and IMR 3031...
...for pistols W-231(target and subsonic) and IMR 4227 (magnum and +P loads) I could go on....
Being in high school freshman English class when this occured, the teacher suggested that we all write down our feelings.
I blamed Castro’s Cuba...which then and now takes in a lot of ground.
Interestingly, Ruby visited Cuba in 1959, shortly after Castro came to power, but the Warren Commission didn't probe extensively into this trip.
In the months following the assassination, some conservatives raised the question as to whether Jack Ruby was the same person as Jack Rubinstein, a prominent member of the Young Communist League in the late 1920's.
“I still believe LBJ and Lady Bird were behind this”You’re not alone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBird!
From the link:
MacBird! was a 1967 satire by Barbara Garson that superimposed the transferral of power following the Kennedy assassination onto the plot of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Thus John F. Kennedy becomes “Ken O’Dunc”, Lyndon Johnson becomes “MacBird”, Lady Bird Johnson becomes “Lady MacBird”, and so forth. As Macbeth assassinates Duncan, so MacBird is responsible for the assassination of Ken O’Dunc; and as Macbeth is defeated by Macduff, so MacBird is defeated by Robert O’Dunc (i.e. Robert Kennedy). This action is significantly influenced by the Three Witches, representing Students, Blacks, and Leftists.
Garson says she was not seriously accusing Johnson of complicity in the Kennedy assassination:
“People used to ask me then, ‘Do you really think Johnson killed Kennedy?’ “ Garson, now 65, recalls. “I never took that seriously. I used to say to people, ‘If he did, it’s the least of his crimes.’ It was not what the play was about. The plot was a given.”[1]
The play parodies sequences from Shakespearean tragedies including Macbeth, Hamlet, and Richard III, albeit with Texas and Boston accents. The action follows MacBird from the Democratic Convention of 1960, when he becomes Ken O’Dunc’s Vice-President (”Hail, Vice-President thou art!”), to Ken O’Dunc’s assassination (at the urging of Lady MacBird), to Robert O’Dunc’s victory over MacBird at the next convention.
Macbird! started out as a short satirical sketch by Garson, a recent graduate of the Berkeley anti-Vietnam war movement. It was developed into a full-length play with help from writer/director Roy Levine (and Shakespeare).
The production, which opened a mere three years after the Kennedy assassination, was quite controversial. It has been said that pressure from local authorities was applied to theaters in New York who were considering it. The Village Gate was the only theater willing to defy this pressure and mount the play. Macbird opened there on February 22, 1967, and closed and closed on January 21, 1968, after 386 performances.
Me too. It was an amazingly easy shot.
...and what follows is a bunch of conjecture and pretty much paraphrases what Mailer wrote in Harlot's Ghost.
But I understand...he's trying to sell his book.
19 different calibers so far.
The Clintons pretty much got control of organized crime in 1993 with the firing of the US Attorneys and the cover up of their investigation into official corruption.
That investigation came from the R King beating when bush ordered a review of complaints filed against police with the FBI.
Organized crime, particularly the drug trade, cannot function without corrupt law enforcement, police, prosecuting attorneys, judges, etc.
Pretty much everything the dems do can be traced to some type of corruption is involved.
Lumumba was executed by his enemies on January 17, 1961, during Eisenhower's administration.
Mafia member they had a hard on for JFK.
It was a relatively easy shot from short range. Oswald didn’t need to be an expert to pull it off. With two weeks of snapping in and practice even somebody with your skill could have pulled it off.
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