From Vince Salandria to Phillip Nelson: Descent into the Maelstrom

[Stan Wilbourne]

http://home.comcast.net/~johnkelin/vs.html

http://home.comcast.net/~johnkelin/schotz.html

Thanks, John, for posting those links.

Please do not seek comfort in the probability that the killing of President Kennedy was the work of a low-level conspiracy. Chief Justice Warren, Allen Dulles, McGeorge Bundy, all of the other government operatives, the U.S. media, the U.S. historians, would not have failed to perform the work which we have just performed in order to protect the Mafia or some small group not associated with the center of U.S. power. If the killers had not been in the very center of the National Security State and therefore beyond reach of punishment, the President's family, having considerable wealth and power, would have insisted upon a fair investigation and punishment of the conspirators. Our government at this time would not have its very legitimacy at issue throughout the world in order to protect rogue elements who had committed this crime thirty-five years ago.

There is no rational manner in which we can strip away the guilt of the highest levels of our national security state. The government's consistent criminal pattern of ignoring a whole series of data indicating conspiracy and consistently twisting the meaning of evidence to support a single assassin killing compels the conclusion that the U.S. national security state killed President Kennedy. President Kennedy himself had posited that he might be killed by the national security state, as reported in Paul B. Fay, Jr.'s book, The Pleasure of his Company.

And, I found this quote from David Talbot on the EF forum:

As I got deeper into my research, the air of sinister menace that hung over the Kennedy presidency was palpable to me. I simply can't understand how other Kennedy biographers and historians have missed this. As I've been saying in my talks on the book tour circuit, it was Rome on the Potomac. Some of this comes across in Richard Reeves' book on Kennedy, as well as Beschloss's book on JFK and Khrushchev -- but they stop short of the obvious conclusion. It was indeed an administration at war with itself.

One of the most chilling things I heard in my interviews for the book was from Arthur Schlesinger, when I asked him if Kennedy was in full control of his own government. Well, he told me, we certainly were not in control of the Joint Chiefs.