JFK: What we know now that we didn't know then

[Jan Klimkowski]

I do not accept the JFK assassination as being sponsored by any one nation, but rather by a supra-national force of interests for which the Cold War, like so many others, was just a chess piece in an almost incomprehensibly larger and older ongoing game. JFK was both Knight and Bishop, and both black and red pieces were aligned against him.

Much as a chess game can be managed as a dramatic construct, the JFK assassination conspiracy was written as drama. Accordingly, we must look to the literary cliques within the civilian and military intelligence services which were used to facilitate the operation. In the U.S. there were the dark poet Angleton, the pulp novelist Hunt, the onanistic wordsmith Phillips, and to a lesser degree Lansdale, who put the "mad" in Madison Avenue.

Thus what we have here is a "plot" in more than one sense of the word.

I'd like you to consider this: Resolved that even if JFK had not been perceived as a serious threat to the elite, the time had come to execute an American president and remove a Soviet premier so as to remind generations of successors around the globe that they are simply pieces on a board -- pieces with no real power to manage or change the game.

And if my chess/drama metaphor holds, then understand that Fischer and Spassky were on the same side.

I should add, Stan, that I truly appreciate and learn from your posts here.

One of the strengths of the Mechanic - Facilitator - Sponsor framework as a tool for analysing deep political events is that it forces an examination of the required knowledge and capability for achieving or delivering a particular action for each hypothesized player.

Consider the attempted assassinations of French President Charles De Gaulle.

Mainstream history claims that they were perpetrated by the Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS), a far right terror group consisting largely of French nationalist soldiers and intelligence agents disgusted by De Gaulle's concessions to Algerian independence. These "warriors" felt betrayed by De Gaullle.

Just as certain Americans and Cuban-Americans felt betrayed by Kennedy over the Bay of Pigs.

The OAS assassination attempts on De Gaulle came very close to success, and there are claims of breach of security, advance knowledge of Presidential travel routes, etc. In other words, high level inside knowledge and collaboration with the plotters.

The assassination attempts even have their own silenced and slaughtered patsy: military engineer Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, executed by firing squad in March 1963.

Here's the geopolitical context that is never mentioned in relation to the attempted assassination of De Gaulle. As early as 1958, De Gaulle was removing France's military from NATO structures, and challenging NATO's role as the Ying to the Warsaw Pact's Yang. De Gaulle removed France's Mediterranean fleet from NATO control, forced foreign nuclear weapons out of his country and closed US air bases in France. Even SHAPE (not an invention of Ian Fleming but in reality the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) was moved from French territory to more docile Belgian land.

Mainstream history is clear: it fingers the far right French nationalists of the OAS, fuming over the betrayal of "French Algeria", as the guilty parties in the De Gaulle assassination attempts.

But who were the OAS? Historians such as Ganser have identified the OAS as a highly compartmentalized cell structure organisation, operating as part of Operation Gladio.

So, lets hypothesize. It is entirely possible that a particular OAS cell, strictly compartmentalised and in zero contact with other cells, may have been tasked with a mission to assassination De Gaulle. The OAS cell would have accepted this mission with relish, honoured at the job they were entrusted with, convinced that they were working for true patriots who shared their goal of a forever French Algeria.

Whereas the OAS hit squad may have been working for another master altogether - a military-intelligence insider of high enough rank to know about the top secret Gladio operation in 1962, and able to give orders to a Gladio OAS cell.

If the hypothesis is correct, the OAS would not have been the Sponsors of the assassination attempt. They would not even have been its Facilitators. They would have simply been the Mechanics - mere hirelings tasked with getting their hands dirty and performing the deed.

If the Sponsors sat at the top of NATO, or above the NATO-Warsaw Pact structure, then the use of the OAS would be ideal, providing perfect cover, directing public attention in entirely the wrong direction. Forcing an establishment cover up of deep military intelligence secrets if the Gladio connection was ever suggested.

Bastien-Thiry was most likely a Mechanic, cast as a Patsy to be slaughtered and silenced.

It has recently been suggested that Bastien-Thiry was not a member of the OAS, but rather of the nebulous Vieil État-Major. This might elevate him to Facilitator rank, but only in a junior sense.

This analysis of the De Gaulle assassination attempts using the Mechanic - Facilitator - Sponsor model suggests that a hit squad can act in good faith, and commit an act on behalf of a cause which is irrelevant to the motivations of the deed's True Sponsors.

Jim Garrison: Who killed the President?
David Ferrie: Why don't you fucking stop it? Shit! This is too big for you, you know that? Who did the President? Fuck! It's a mystery. It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! The shooters don't even know! Don't you get it?