17-01-2017, 04:53 PM
A few thoughts on that article by Paul Gregory I posted above.
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...post116843
Keep in mind that Gregory as a young man testified before the WC and helped create the image of Oswald as "frustrated angry commie." He was still pushing that line many years later:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/magazi...wanted=all
On the Saturday morning after Kennedy was killed, I was sitting in my small apartment in Norman when a Secret Service agent and the local chief of police arrived and took me some 20 miles down I-35 to Oklahoma City for questioning. As we drove, I began telling them about how I met Oswald, the evenings driving around Fort Worth, the Dallas Russians and how a college kid got caught up with an accused assassin. After they escorted me into a nondescript conference room in a downtown building, the agents homed in on the question of the day, which, of course, has lingered over the past 50 years: Did I think Oswald worked alone or was part of a larger conspiracy? I told them simply that, if I were organizing a conspiracy, he would have been the last person I would recruit. He was too difficult and unreliable.Over the years, despite public-opinion polls, many others have agreed. The opening of formerly secret archives in Russia indicate that the K.G.B. didn't want to recruit Oswald. Cuban intelligence officers, a K.G.B. agent or two, Mafia bosses and even C.I.A. officers (including, supposedly, members of Nixon's "plumbers" team) have somehow been tied to Oswald's actions that day, but it's difficult to understand how these conspiracy theories would have worked. Oswald, after all, fled the Texas School Book Depository by Dallas's notably unreliable public-transportation system.
It's discomfiting to think that history could have been altered by such a small player, but over the years, I've realized that was part of Oswald's goal. I entered his life at just the moment that he was trying to prove, particularly to his skeptical wife, that he was truly exceptional. But during those months, his assertion was rapidly losing credibility. Marina would later tell the Warren Commission, through a translator, about "his imagination, his fantasy, which was quite unfounded, as to the fact that he was an outstanding man." Perhaps he chose what seemed like the only remaining shortcut to going down in history. On April 10, 1963, Oswald used a rifle with a telescopic sight to fire a bullet into the Dallas home of Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker, the conservative war hero, narrowly missing his head. Oswald told his wife about the assassination attempt, but she never told authorities before Kennedy's death
And now he assures us that the Russians would have no motivation to compile embarrassing material about Trump. "This story makes no sense. In 2011, when the courtship purportedly begins, Trump was a TV personality and beauty pageant impresario. Neither in the U.S. or Russia would anyone of authority anticipate that Trump would one day become the presidential candidate of a major U.S. political party, making him the target of Russian intelligence."
But we know that Trump has flirted with the idea of running for President going back to 1988, and most notably in 2000. He also talked of running for Governor of New York during the Bush years. So this argument - that the Russians wouldn't be interested in compromising a prominent US businessman with political ambitions - is just nonsense. In fact, he dismisses him as merely "a TV personality and beauty pageant impresario." We can see that Gregory is still an effective story-teller.
Gregory dismisses the idea of bribing Trump with shares in Rosneft because "Rosneft, as a public company, would have to conceal that the U.S. president was a party to this major transaction." This is hysterical, especially after he wrote earlier "Russia has had a non-transparent system of rule that deliberately reveals little about itself. Both insiders and outsiders must look for subtle signs and signals." Oh no, it just wouldn't be possible for the Russians to conceal anything like that! Hell, we haven't even seen Trump's tax returns.
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...post116843
Keep in mind that Gregory as a young man testified before the WC and helped create the image of Oswald as "frustrated angry commie." He was still pushing that line many years later:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/magazi...wanted=all
On the Saturday morning after Kennedy was killed, I was sitting in my small apartment in Norman when a Secret Service agent and the local chief of police arrived and took me some 20 miles down I-35 to Oklahoma City for questioning. As we drove, I began telling them about how I met Oswald, the evenings driving around Fort Worth, the Dallas Russians and how a college kid got caught up with an accused assassin. After they escorted me into a nondescript conference room in a downtown building, the agents homed in on the question of the day, which, of course, has lingered over the past 50 years: Did I think Oswald worked alone or was part of a larger conspiracy? I told them simply that, if I were organizing a conspiracy, he would have been the last person I would recruit. He was too difficult and unreliable.Over the years, despite public-opinion polls, many others have agreed. The opening of formerly secret archives in Russia indicate that the K.G.B. didn't want to recruit Oswald. Cuban intelligence officers, a K.G.B. agent or two, Mafia bosses and even C.I.A. officers (including, supposedly, members of Nixon's "plumbers" team) have somehow been tied to Oswald's actions that day, but it's difficult to understand how these conspiracy theories would have worked. Oswald, after all, fled the Texas School Book Depository by Dallas's notably unreliable public-transportation system.
It's discomfiting to think that history could have been altered by such a small player, but over the years, I've realized that was part of Oswald's goal. I entered his life at just the moment that he was trying to prove, particularly to his skeptical wife, that he was truly exceptional. But during those months, his assertion was rapidly losing credibility. Marina would later tell the Warren Commission, through a translator, about "his imagination, his fantasy, which was quite unfounded, as to the fact that he was an outstanding man." Perhaps he chose what seemed like the only remaining shortcut to going down in history. On April 10, 1963, Oswald used a rifle with a telescopic sight to fire a bullet into the Dallas home of Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker, the conservative war hero, narrowly missing his head. Oswald told his wife about the assassination attempt, but she never told authorities before Kennedy's death
And now he assures us that the Russians would have no motivation to compile embarrassing material about Trump. "This story makes no sense. In 2011, when the courtship purportedly begins, Trump was a TV personality and beauty pageant impresario. Neither in the U.S. or Russia would anyone of authority anticipate that Trump would one day become the presidential candidate of a major U.S. political party, making him the target of Russian intelligence."
But we know that Trump has flirted with the idea of running for President going back to 1988, and most notably in 2000. He also talked of running for Governor of New York during the Bush years. So this argument - that the Russians wouldn't be interested in compromising a prominent US businessman with political ambitions - is just nonsense. In fact, he dismisses him as merely "a TV personality and beauty pageant impresario." We can see that Gregory is still an effective story-teller.
Gregory dismisses the idea of bribing Trump with shares in Rosneft because "Rosneft, as a public company, would have to conceal that the U.S. president was a party to this major transaction." This is hysterical, especially after he wrote earlier "Russia has had a non-transparent system of rule that deliberately reveals little about itself. Both insiders and outsiders must look for subtle signs and signals." Oh no, it just wouldn't be possible for the Russians to conceal anything like that! Hell, we haven't even seen Trump's tax returns.