31-12-2012, 07:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 31-12-2012, 11:59 PM by Greg Burnham.)
We've been through this at the EF. I don't need to repeat my objections to your thesis here. Suffice it to say, IMO, you are relatively new to this type of analysis--and it shows.
No offense intended. But, "normally" the fingering of the CIA at the "directorate level" is at once both spurious (possibly by intent) and naive (possibly for appearance). A very
important distinction needs to be appreciated, namely, the CIA is an AGENCY. As such, an agency works for someone else and is tasked by others (outside and ABOVE the agency
itself) to perform various responsibilities. The individual agents in any agency take orders from their superiors, but their superiors are themselves taking their orders from above
and beyond at all times.
Your model lacks insight.
Moreover, in one breath you say: WHO ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT KENNEDY?
THE SHORT ANSWER: The CIA, at the directorate level, assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, to replace him with CIA-friendly Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Former CIA director Allen Dulles issued the Kill Directive to the Agency's Deputy Director for Counterintelligence (covert military operations) James J. Angleton, a devoted Dulles assistant from before the CIA existed.
And in the next breath you say: Ruling Out the Unlikely
2THE CIA ACTING ALONE: I also dismiss the proposition the conspiracy originated within the CIA. The CIA's mission was to serve clients in the private sector: the global geopolitical profit interests of the most towering industrial and financial enterprises in the nation. Self-indulgence like killing an American president out of personal spite would have contradicted the very reason for its existence. Allen Dulles had molded the CIA to enforce the will of those private enterprises, who were his clients and remained so after he was sacked. Their power exceeded Dulles' (just as Dulles' exceeded the president's), and Kennedy had initiated policies that imminently threatened their livelihoods. I believe Dulles issued the kill order to the directorate level of the CIA. But he was not the mastermind, either. His life story is one of serving private sector clients for a living, both as a lawyer and blood-splattered spy.
You seem to be contradicting yourself.
No offense intended. But, "normally" the fingering of the CIA at the "directorate level" is at once both spurious (possibly by intent) and naive (possibly for appearance). A very
important distinction needs to be appreciated, namely, the CIA is an AGENCY. As such, an agency works for someone else and is tasked by others (outside and ABOVE the agency
itself) to perform various responsibilities. The individual agents in any agency take orders from their superiors, but their superiors are themselves taking their orders from above
and beyond at all times.
Your model lacks insight.
Moreover, in one breath you say: WHO ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT KENNEDY?
THE SHORT ANSWER: The CIA, at the directorate level, assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, to replace him with CIA-friendly Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Former CIA director Allen Dulles issued the Kill Directive to the Agency's Deputy Director for Counterintelligence (covert military operations) James J. Angleton, a devoted Dulles assistant from before the CIA existed.
And in the next breath you say: Ruling Out the Unlikely
2THE CIA ACTING ALONE: I also dismiss the proposition the conspiracy originated within the CIA. The CIA's mission was to serve clients in the private sector: the global geopolitical profit interests of the most towering industrial and financial enterprises in the nation. Self-indulgence like killing an American president out of personal spite would have contradicted the very reason for its existence. Allen Dulles had molded the CIA to enforce the will of those private enterprises, who were his clients and remained so after he was sacked. Their power exceeded Dulles' (just as Dulles' exceeded the president's), and Kennedy had initiated policies that imminently threatened their livelihoods. I believe Dulles issued the kill order to the directorate level of the CIA. But he was not the mastermind, either. His life story is one of serving private sector clients for a living, both as a lawyer and blood-splattered spy.
You seem to be contradicting yourself.
GO_SECURE
monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)
monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)