25-04-2016, 02:18 PM
Well said, Albert!
We're hurting our own cause by making this seem way more complicated than it really was.
Essentially, the assassination involved usurping an ongoing CIA operation, using one agent to frame another as the patsy for the hit, and then, at first, trying to blame it all on Castro, and when LBJ quashed that, trying to blame it all on a "Lone Nut."
As the director and money man for the Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE), CIA officer George Joannides was the man charged by the Agency with linking "Lee Harvey Oswald" to Fidel Castro in the months prior to the assassination. When, years later, the Agency put Joannides in charge of misleading the HSCA, the CIA clearly became, at the very minimum, an accessory after the fact of the murder of JFK.
But we can make almost as strong case that then-current and former CIA members such as David Phillips, E. Howard Hunt, Allen Dulles and perhaps George Joannides and, for that matter, both the Paines, were involved in the planning and execution of the hit. This is not rocket science. Among the CIA employees who at various times have said the Agency had something to do with the assassination of JFK are Victor Marchetti, James Wilcott, Donald Norton, Joseph Newbrough, John Garrett Underhill, William Gaudet, Donald Deneslya and no doubt other CIA employees.
Making distinctions between plotters, facilitators, mechanics and the like is a useful activity, but not if it obscures the simple fact that an enormous amount of evidence points to the fact that the murder of JFK was a coup d'état with a sizable number of American Intel personnel at its very core. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if other powerful players outside the normal intelligence sphere were part of this conspiracy, but for now, and for the life of me, I can't see why all of us don't simply follow the evidence. It isn't that difficult, and even at this late date, it might lead to even more of the truth.
We're hurting our own cause by making this seem way more complicated than it really was.
Essentially, the assassination involved usurping an ongoing CIA operation, using one agent to frame another as the patsy for the hit, and then, at first, trying to blame it all on Castro, and when LBJ quashed that, trying to blame it all on a "Lone Nut."
As the director and money man for the Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE), CIA officer George Joannides was the man charged by the Agency with linking "Lee Harvey Oswald" to Fidel Castro in the months prior to the assassination. When, years later, the Agency put Joannides in charge of misleading the HSCA, the CIA clearly became, at the very minimum, an accessory after the fact of the murder of JFK.
But we can make almost as strong case that then-current and former CIA members such as David Phillips, E. Howard Hunt, Allen Dulles and perhaps George Joannides and, for that matter, both the Paines, were involved in the planning and execution of the hit. This is not rocket science. Among the CIA employees who at various times have said the Agency had something to do with the assassination of JFK are Victor Marchetti, James Wilcott, Donald Norton, Joseph Newbrough, John Garrett Underhill, William Gaudet, Donald Deneslya and no doubt other CIA employees.
Making distinctions between plotters, facilitators, mechanics and the like is a useful activity, but not if it obscures the simple fact that an enormous amount of evidence points to the fact that the murder of JFK was a coup d'état with a sizable number of American Intel personnel at its very core. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if other powerful players outside the normal intelligence sphere were part of this conspiracy, but for now, and for the life of me, I can't see why all of us don't simply follow the evidence. It isn't that difficult, and even at this late date, it might lead to even more of the truth.
HarveyandLee.net
Chief Justice Earl Warren: "Full disclosure was not possible for reasons of national security." – 1964
CIA accountant James B. Wilcott: Oswald received "a full-time salary for agent work for doing CIA operational work." – 1978
HSCA counsel Robert Tanenbaum: “Lee Harvey Oswald was a contract employee of the CIA and the FBI.†– 1996
Chief Justice Earl Warren: "Full disclosure was not possible for reasons of national security." – 1964
CIA accountant James B. Wilcott: Oswald received "a full-time salary for agent work for doing CIA operational work." – 1978
HSCA counsel Robert Tanenbaum: “Lee Harvey Oswald was a contract employee of the CIA and the FBI.†– 1996