The Danger Of The Fetzer Assassination School

[Greg Burnham]

You continue NOT to get it!

I am NOT arguing that CIA officers and agents weren't involved in the JFK conspiracy.

I am trying to penetrate your titanium skull with a simple message: To state that "THE" CIA was involved in any deep political event is to imply that the agency committed the acts as official policy. It is to imply that it is a monolithic bureaucratic entity and is neither factionalized nor deep.

Further, to so state is to promote a simple-minded, shallow political appreciation of how the deep world works.

Was there a senior staff meeting in the DCI's office with an agenda on which "Kill JFK" was included?

So to answer your question: Yes indeed, I can and do state that [size=12]THE CIA WASN'T A PRIMARY PARTICIPANT IN THE ASSASSINATION!!!!!!!!![/SIZE]

My reply to that is you fall into your own trap of the multi-dimensional nature of deep political behavior when you refuse to recognize that when CIA formally denied any involvement in JFK's killing it was acting as a unified bureaucratic entity when it did so. As long as Fort Bragg had a Special Forces training facility with a mock-up of Dealey Plaza and trainers who practically bragged in the open about killing Kennedy, as Dan Marvin told, then CIA as an organization knew about their participation in the assassination. No matter what you say many of the primary participants in the assassination were CIA officers. Angleton, Phillips, Hunt etc were all CIA employees, which makes them CIA. The important point here is that CIA, no matter how fractured, splintered, compartmentalized or factionally controlled was still CIA and responsible for the actions of its members under its formal structure. In my opinion, to honor this internal division in CIA in order to prove deep political theory is to let them off the hook as far as accountability. While everything you say is true, it is that very multi-dimensional deep political nature of CIA that makes this true at the same and in coexistence with deep political theory. To honor the "dumb head" of the official front desk of CIA is to honor their ploy. They must be held to accountability and even though they, as a group, pretend not to know, they can't be allowed the privilege of formally not knowing when reality requires otherwise. Meanwhile there were many documented cases where CIA formally created memos trying to tell all involved assets how to disseminate anti-conspiracy propaganda. What I'm trying to say is at a theoretical level it makes no difference if this formal CIA entity is detached from the covert actors as long as it acts in effective agency with those who committed the assassination. In fact I can't think of a more precise definition of the totality of sponsorship than the words "central intelligence". At that point you are close to "evil eye". It could even be argued that the CIA itself was the "hardware shop" of the true sponsors and created as such for that very purpose.

Albert,

When Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers was he acting on behalf of his employer? Do you think that the Rand Corporation knew that Ellsberg was going to leak them and/or ordered him to do it? I didn't think so. It is not true that the actions of any individual or group of individuals within an organization is evidence that those actions are ordained by the organization itself particularly when those activities are entirely counter to the purposes for which the organization exists. The CIA does not exist to eliminate US presidents. Truman's conception was that it would exist to coordinate the intelligence gathered by other intelligence agencies and deliver it to the president in a comprehensive form. Eisenhower altered the manner in which he utilized them. More and more the agency became not so much a coordinator of intelligence, but a controller of information. A spin machine of incredible efficiency. Masters of the cover-up.

Charles is not excusing them. He is condemning them. He is not letting them off the hook for their actions nor reducing their accountability. He is simply identifying their true role. Their role was as important to this ongoing operation as was the role of the mechanics themselves.

JFK was not the only assassinated one in Dealey Plaza. We all were.