Lack of continuity between Dallas & Chicago plots

[Charles Drago]

Well I must admit that this doesn't click for me, the concept of justifying a decrease in security after a foiled plot rather than an increase in security.

Myra,

All material resources are finite -- even those available to the most powerful and ruthless people on the planet.

The most critical skill sets (to use an overworked Generation Next term) necessary to operate on all sub-tiers of the "facilitator" level of the JFK plot were (and still are) the rarest of commodities. They could and can be stretched only so thin.

There was one – and only one – meta-plot, and to my mind the Chicago and Tampa theatrics were essential elements of it.

There was one -- and only one -- ideal location for the hit in terms of combining logistics and false/semi-false sponsor incrimination (Johnson, Texas oil), and that location was Dallas.

There was one -- and only one -- ideal patsy in terms of a single individual (elegant simplicity within layered, immense complexity; ultimate economy) being linked to a maximum number of false/semi-false sponsors (Castro, anti-Castro forces, the CIA as an agency of overworld government, LCN, Right Wingers, etc.) and other deep political entities and operations, and that patsy was LHO.

I wonder if supposed Chicago patsy Thomas Vallee was also given right and left wing cover stories so that he could be a one size fits all patsy like Oswald.

To argue that Vallee was as deeply situated within the deep political matrix and as masterfully manipulated over time as was LHO is, for me, absurd on its face – this despite their multiple superficial similarities, which of course were highly significant in terms of the doppelganger gambit.

So then ... what conclusions regarding Chicago can we draw?

Admittedly I am offering hypothesis w/o footnotes.

But deep politics sometimes defies deep penetration by the applications of standard academic inquiries. And so often we are left to offer highly informed speculation supported equally by right- and left-brain appreciations of deep political systems.

The stripping of Dallas presidential security is, I contend, the Rosetta Stone of this plot in terms of identifying its facilitators. Like Vince Palamara, I am persuaded by George Michael Evica's original analysis of the stripping and his conclusion that a staged assassination attempt ostensibly designed to implicate Castro and force an unharmed JFK to retaliate – but at the deepest level intended to facilitate the real hit – was "sold" to key non-conspiratorial administration and Secret Service officials by the real plotters.

When the Dallas hit turned out to be other than faux, members of JFK’s political inner circle and branches of presidential security complicit in the ostensibly “innocent” stripping were compromised to the point of silent inaction. This group included “innocent” elements of those very agencies responsible for investigating the assassination and apprehending the assassins.

To address directly your discomfort with the argument that a foiled Chicago plot could be used as a logical reason to reduce Dallas security, I offer this:

In the wake of events in Chicago, Dallas security was reduced.

The conclusion that, with the foiling of the Vallee attempt, a long-rumored JFK hit with elements mirrored by larger aspects of the Chicago scenario was taken off the board eliminated the last major argument (too dangerous) against a staged, “unsuccessful” Dallas “assassination.”

AND the Chicago plot could be counted on to visit upon post-assassination investigations all the cognitive dissonance that doppelgangers traditionally stir.