Familiar Faces in Dealey Plaza

[Jan Klimkowski]

Charles...I agree. I was tipped off by Fletcher Prouty about the
theatrical scripts prepared for EVERY OPERATION. He said NO intel
operation is begun without a written "screenplay", which is then
subject to many meetings, refinements, and rehearsals. Fletch
called them SCENARIOS, and said that Lansdale and Conein were
the two BEST scenario writers in the CIA for covert operations.
He said Conein in particular was adept at creating multiple false
trails to confuse investigators and news accounts. He claimed to
recognize a Conein tactic in the staged "arrest" and "parade"
through Dealey Plaza of the THREE TRAMPS. The guys were not
assassins...just bit players to divert attention.

I agree with you and Prouty. Too bad that others do not "get it."

Jack

Worthy, I think, of a bump.

I might add that, independent of Prouty, George Michael Evica came to understand and write that the JFK op in particular and most complicated intelligence ops in general are dramatic constructs.

I would expand on this insight: The likelihood that a given historical event is conspiratorial in a deep political sense increases in direct proportion to evidence of said event's dramaturgical nature.

And so we are left to ponder the dramatic function of the doppelganger.

I agree about the deliberate creation of confusion, of fog which seems impenetrable, to persuade us poor preterite ones that the Truth is Out There but the Truth is Unknowable.

However, a little hope remains in an examination of the wide range of dramatic and story-telling ability displayed by spooks in their fictional publications.

For every exquisite John Le Carre tome there is an execrable E Howard Hunt turd.