30-10-2016, 10:16 PM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:But that is not the worst part. The worst part is that the CIA cut ten feet of film from the Cuban camera coverage. And it disappeared at CIA HQ. (ibid)
I've always had difficulty understanding why the MC CIA station would send the tapes and photos of Oswald to Dallas after the assassination when they knew they wouldn't match Oswald's appearance or voice. I believe Veciana about seeing the "real" Oswald (well, one of them anyway) with Phillips so at least he had to know what he looked like. Is it possible that Goodpasture had no idea what the Dallas Oswald looked like? If so, then why would she lie so pervasively about her part in the photo surveillance? To cover for Phillips or Scott? If she thought she was being made the scapegoat then she was being an awfully "good soldier" in her HSCA testimony.
When you add in the appearance of the Oswald imposter reported by the Cuban embassy didn't resemble the mystery man photo either then I'm really lost although I guess that's why the WC wasn't too interested in interviewing Duran and the CIA had her taken into custody and tortured by the Mexican police into telling them something supporting the Oswald at the embassies story.
I'm sure the MC frame up operation wasn't perfect and a lot of mistakes were made but its reasonable to speculate that it was designed to do (at least) two things:
1) implicate Castro and perhaps the KGB in the assassination as a pretext for invading Cuba
2) blackmail Hoover into conducting a cover up "investigation" since the FBI presumably had tabs on Oswald and was reportedly using him in an anti-FPCC operation in MC
In the latter case, maybe they didn't care if the photos or tapes matched the Dallas suspect since they expected the details of them to be covered up by the FBI to avoid embarrassment.
So now we have 10 feet of film being excised from the Cuban embassy surveillance tape and disappearing while in CIA custody. Is it possible that this action was related to what the tape didn't show - that is, anyone resembling Oswald entering or leaving the Cuban embassy at the times of the impersonations? Or maybe something completely unrelated to Oswald and the JFK case? I guess we'll find out about that when we find out what was on the 18 minute gap in the White House taping system during Watergate.