The Cover-Up: How Was Movement from Phase I to Phase II Justified?

[David Josephs]

I'll try to ask it one moretime:

How were the most powerfulpeople in and around government who, innocent of any involvement in the conspiracy,were told and accepted as being truewhat today we call the Phase I story, mollified when they asked (and Ibelieve many of them did), "If we go along with this cover-up of Cuban andSoviet complicity for the greater good, how and when will the guilty Cuban andSoviet parties be punished?"

My hope is that I've finally found the words and constructions requiredto make my point.

Because I'm done trying.

Who was aware of this Phase 1 story?

October 9, 1963:
CIA informed that a LEE OSWALD contacts Russian Consul having beenthere on Sept 27/28 ( A Saturday and Yom Kippur) Photo taken Oct 1 has Americanentering 1216 and leaving 1222.

October 10, 1963
CIA send State, FBI and Dept of Navy a cable re: man identifyinghimself as LEE OSWALD… does NOT mention Kostikov, names man as LEE HENRY OSWALDwith LEE HARVEY's History

ALSO:
CIA Director send 3 page message back to Mexico City with detailed infoabout LEE OSWALD (no HENRY) and that STATE has determined OSWALD still USCITIZEN….

October 16, 1963
Win Scott sends memo to Mexican Ambassador reiterating info from Oct 10CIA cable… LEE HENRY, KOSTIKOV, with CC's to a number of locations including:Legal Attaché, Naval Attaché, I & M S, Lee Henry OSWALD P-

October 24, 1963
CIA asks NAVY for photos of LEE HENRY OSWALD to determine if Americanin Mexico actually OSWALD

November 23, 1963
From: DD Plans
To: Hoover
Ref teletype #84915
Conclusion: OSWALD trying to get to Soviet Union or at least Cuba inwaiting to get to Soviet Union
(again many on the distribution list)

So again… there are a handful of people who are aware that CIA istrying to ascertain if American from Sept 27, 28, Oct 1, Oct 3 is LEE HENRYOSWALD (there is no mention of "HARVEY" in these communications, it is eitherLEE H., or LEE HENRY)
In every communication prior to the memo from Hoover to Rowley on 11/23which states that Special Agents are of the opinion the individual was NOT LEEHARVEY OSWALD (Hoover knows there is no HENRY?) the American is referred to asthe same as LEE HENRY OSWALD from the Marines.

On Nov 23[SUP]rd[/SUP] Hoover tells LBJ that the voice and appearanceare NOT LEE H. OSWALD yet a second man down there did in fact use his name…. he goes on to say that the "case as it nowstands isn't strong enough to be able to get a conviction." "… I think we have a very, very close plan." And then moments later, "if we can ID thisman who is at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. this man OSWALD has stilldenied everything."

So who is it outside the CIA -that knows the man in Mexico City was IMPERSONATING OSWALD, and not the accusedkiller of JFK as of Saturday afternoon 11/23/63?
- Hoover
- LBJ
- ???

Yet by 11/23 the public is aware that OSWALD had defected to Russia,was married to a Russian and was a COMMIE. DPD and Dallas papers supporting this theory.

I have not read each and every LBJ transcript for all his calls… but Ihave read the Russell call on 11/29 where he states: "…and we've got to takethis out of the arena where they're testifying that Khrushchev and Castro didthis and did that and check us into a war that can kill 40 million Americans inan hour…."

Now, on Dec 12 Hoover writes the following in a memo to his Sr. Staff:
I said I personallybelieve Oswald was the assassin; that the second aspect as to whether he wasthe only man gives me great concern; that we have several letters, not in thereport because we were not able to prove it, written to him from Cuba referringto the job he was going to do, his good marksmanship, and stating when it wasall over he would be brought back to Cuba and presented to the chief; but we donot know if the chief was Castro and cannot make an investigation because wehave no intelligence operation in Cuba; that I did not put this into the reportbecause we did not have proof of it and didn't want to put speculation in thereport; that this was the reason I urged strongly that we not reach conclusionOswald was the only man.[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]Which makes sense since Hoover KNOWS that someone impersonatedOSWALD. Alvarado has recanted his storyas of Dec 7, 1963 as we learn from the CIA message sending Alvarado back toNicaragua. Yet do we know if HOOVERknows about the recanting? As of theconversation with LBJ on the 29[SUP]th[/SUP], Alvarado's story had NOT berecanted and DURAN was still placing OSWALD down there.

From what I can conclude then, the Phase 1 story… connecting OSWALDwith RUSSIA/CUBA was something that is borne via the CIA cable toSTATE/NAVY/FBI on Oct 10th… yet other than Hoover,who is involved in the investigation of this story? I get the feeling that NAVY already knew itwas not OSWALD and couldn't care either way, STATE had to have known somethingsince they confirmed he was still a US citizen and also would have little to dowith the investigation or the crime other than the Katzenbach memo… whichdiscusses how the Dallas police let go statements directed toward a communisttheory with the "too pat too obvious" evidence in support of such aconclusion.

I am trying to find… and maybe you can help, when the FIRST MENTION OFLONE NUT appears… since as late as 11/29jeh/lbj are still discussing that angle in Mexico City…. What I have found is Section IB paragraph 3of the 11/9/63 FBI report states:

Nevertheless,evidence developed in the investigation points conclusively
tothe assassination of President Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald, avowed
Marxist,a former defector to the Soviet Union and the self-appointed
Secretaryof the New Orleans Chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a
pro-Castroorganization.

Everything that follows is focused on Oswald with the concludingparagraphs:

Investigationhas (1) developed detailed background information concerning
Oswaldfrom his birth to his death; (2) strengthened the evidence that
Oswaldwas the assassin of the President although no clear-cut motive has
beenestablished; and (3) despite numerous allegations which have been
investigated,developed no sound evidence indicating that he received any
financialassistance or that any other person, group, or foreign government
inspiredor directed the assassination or was cognizant of his plan to
assassinatePresident Kennedy. On the contrary, thedata developed strongly
indicates that heacted on his own initiative or impulse with little
advance planning.Also, investigation has disclosed no evidence that
Oswald,while residing in Russia, was recruited by the Soviet intelligence
servicesor received any assignment or training from the intelligence
services.Further, investigation has developed no proof of any prior
contactor association between Oswald and his murderer, Jack Leon Ruby.

Leadsare still being covered, and the FBI will continue to check out any
additionalallegations or information which come to its attention.

So it appears the transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2 occurswith the leaking of information from this FBI report and the dissemination of thisreport to these mentioned as "the most powerful people".

Of these people… WHO knew about the recanting of Alvaradoand Duran? WHO knew that OSWALD in Mexico was an imposter and not the realOswald? I for one get the impressionthat there were not too many in the know about this and those that were, werenot going to be questioning anything anyway. Once the FBI tells us that OSWALD acted alone… and HARRIMAN lets us knowthe Soviets had NOTHING to do with it… the Phase 1 story was thoroughly hidden until history dug it up… (and Plausible Denial is published)

DJ