27-02-2010, 08:28 AM
Preponderance being the superiority of weight, power, importance or strength.
The Texas Connection including, but not limited to, Johnson, for reason of ambition and animosity, legal and political liability; oilmen such as Hunt and Murchison; an entire network of anti-communist conservatives in whose number may be counted Mayor Cabell (brother of Earl, CIA official fired by Kennedy) as well as Byrd (who provided an important stage prop; DPD, a veritable nest of vipers. Open-ended for addition.
Sponsor, in definition 3, a person or an organization who pays for or plans and carries out a project or activity.
I would nominate the Central Intelligence Agency as the core sponsor per this definition. In the command car rode Dulles, Helms, Angleton with seats for several more.
I suspect significant input from a national security element which would include Lodge, Rusk, Bundy et al; certainly military men. The obligatory nod to Rockefeller ex Machina. The hands on the puppet sticks emanated from Langley, in my view.
Jim Marrs in Crossfire and Craig Zirbel in Texas Connection listed the motives for Johnson: He had worked his entire life to attain the Oval Office, only to be brushed aside by the Yankee he despised--who was widely seen to be dropping him from the ticket, leaving him vulnerable to prison for the Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes scandals.
I haven't read the Barr McClellan book, and I do not look at Hunt's deathbed "confession" as anything but deflection from the real agent, the CIA, for whom Hunt was every bit the loyalist that MacArthur was for "the Corps".
The Sixth Floor Museum and the continuous persecution of Groden testifies to the surviving Texan hand.
Mafia, too, serving in operational capacity, but as "the finger pointing to the moon; not the moon," in the Zen expression.
Oswald was a creation of the CIA. Not of Texans, Mafia, FBI, Secret Service, though all these despised Kennedy and wished him ill--here come the Cubans to jump on the wagon.
Finally, I would say that RFK's mob cases, and depletion allowances and all of that figure, what takes preeminence are the serial sins as perceived by the national security structure, embodied in the mailed fist of the CIA (using various gloves, puppets per plausible denial allowed by statute):
Bay of Pigs April 1961; Missile crisis October 1962; American University address June 1963; NSAM 263 September 1963; backchannels to Khruschev and Castro ongoing. For these, I believe, he was made an example.
The Texas Connection including, but not limited to, Johnson, for reason of ambition and animosity, legal and political liability; oilmen such as Hunt and Murchison; an entire network of anti-communist conservatives in whose number may be counted Mayor Cabell (brother of Earl, CIA official fired by Kennedy) as well as Byrd (who provided an important stage prop; DPD, a veritable nest of vipers. Open-ended for addition.
Sponsor, in definition 3, a person or an organization who pays for or plans and carries out a project or activity.
I would nominate the Central Intelligence Agency as the core sponsor per this definition. In the command car rode Dulles, Helms, Angleton with seats for several more.
I suspect significant input from a national security element which would include Lodge, Rusk, Bundy et al; certainly military men. The obligatory nod to Rockefeller ex Machina. The hands on the puppet sticks emanated from Langley, in my view.
Jim Marrs in Crossfire and Craig Zirbel in Texas Connection listed the motives for Johnson: He had worked his entire life to attain the Oval Office, only to be brushed aside by the Yankee he despised--who was widely seen to be dropping him from the ticket, leaving him vulnerable to prison for the Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes scandals.
I haven't read the Barr McClellan book, and I do not look at Hunt's deathbed "confession" as anything but deflection from the real agent, the CIA, for whom Hunt was every bit the loyalist that MacArthur was for "the Corps".
The Sixth Floor Museum and the continuous persecution of Groden testifies to the surviving Texan hand.
Mafia, too, serving in operational capacity, but as "the finger pointing to the moon; not the moon," in the Zen expression.
Oswald was a creation of the CIA. Not of Texans, Mafia, FBI, Secret Service, though all these despised Kennedy and wished him ill--here come the Cubans to jump on the wagon.
Finally, I would say that RFK's mob cases, and depletion allowances and all of that figure, what takes preeminence are the serial sins as perceived by the national security structure, embodied in the mailed fist of the CIA (using various gloves, puppets per plausible denial allowed by statute):
Bay of Pigs April 1961; Missile crisis October 1962; American University address June 1963; NSAM 263 September 1963; backchannels to Khruschev and Castro ongoing. For these, I believe, he was made an example.