JFK describes "The Unthinkable" -- "The High Cabal"

[Greg Burnham]

Albert,

I was agreeing with Charles' statement that:

Charles Drago said: The plotters at all cost would have avoided correlation between NSAM perfidy and the assassination.

I agree with that position. Perhaps I missed your meaning, but I thought you were saying that the guilty parties had supplied themselves with a "fall back" position, which would have included the introduction of "Plan B" (so to speak) that would have caused a perceived betrayal of Khruschev by Kennedy due to "his" NSAM 273.

I agree that such a scenario is possible and it is also quite intriguing. I am in no position to deny that possibility, but IMHO, it seems unlikely. Even though the traitors are acting treasonously toward the president, I agree that they most likely believed they were acting patriotically toward the country in some sick, twisted sense of the word. Yet, for them to actually believe that they could convince the public that:

1) Khruschev became aware of the top secret discussions on Vietnam that took place at the Honolulu Conference--ostensibly leading to the DRAFT of NSAM 273 being drawn up--apparently from a traitor inside the upper levels of the USGOV who reported the conference to the Kremlin;

2) Khruschev was relatively certain that Kennedy would sign such a document;

3) Khruschev felt betrayed by the reversal of policy;

4) Khruschev therefore ordered Lee Harvey Oswald to kill JFK the next day

... is a real stretch.