The Chicago Plot: A Hypothesis

[Charles Drago]

I find that Oswald/Valle license plate overlap hard to swallow.

How could someone living in Texas be registered in Illinois, especially when he did not drive, ostensibly at least. Further, what would be the point of it?

I'm not sure I buy it in its entirety, Jim.

But if the overlap has been created out of whole cloth, the point very well may be to continue to muddy the waters long after the assassination. After all, such was one of the main purposes of the entire Chicago exercise -- at least as far as this working, by no means settled hypothesis is concerned.

IMO, the Chicago Plot is one of the truly important elements of the entire Kennedy assassination episode. It is really sad it was covered up like it was, Not just by the SS and FBI, but by the Warren Commission, by the HSCA, Waldron and Hartmann, and Bugliosi.

Agreed. Heartily.

WHen it is not covered up, it seems to me absolutely crucial in understanding nto just what happened in Dallas, but who was behind the plot. After all, if Echeverria and his allies, had succeeded, how could anyone have blamed Johnson, HL Hunt, Murchison, Bush, etc for the murder.

Of course to my way of thinking, "Echeverria and his allies" could not have succeeded because there never was any intention by the primary Facilitators to hit JFK in Chicago.

Which means that the Chicago operation did succeed insofar as, according to my hypothesis, its "foiling" accounted for Dallas leaks and contributed to the stand-down of Dallas security.

And the Facilitators' perceived need for the creation of False Sponsor roles for "Johnson, HL Hunt, Murchison, Bush, etc[.]" argues most persuasively for Dallas being the ONLY venue considered for the real attempt in what turned out to be its final iteration.

The thing is, by falsifying these documents, and getting Echeverria to issue self serving statements exonerating himself, the FBI stopped or at least hindered us from connecting the dots. Not just in Chicago, but also between Chicago and Dallas.

Agreed. This accounts in good measure for my efforts to rethink the very nature of Chicago -- its specific purpose and its place in the Grand Design.

Everyone in this community owes a great deal of gratitude to Bolden and Black. The latter is an investigative journalist who helps us define what that lost term really means.

Let us honor both of these good men.