The Chicago Plot: A Hypothesis

[Charles Drago]

Maybe it's just my little hobby horse that I can't let go of, but I think the whole point of picking Oswald as the patsy was to blame Castro and the KGB for the assassination (Operation Northwoods). This clearly wouldn't work with Vallee and his well-documented far-right politics. If they wanted to pick a "lone psycho," maybe TSBD employee Jack Dougherty would have been better. No, the plotters weren't setting up a nut; they were setting up an agent of the Communist Conspiracy.

Two points, Tracy, which I'd like you to consider:

1. While I agree with you that LHO was patsied to appear to be a pro-Castro/Soviet hit man, the assassination's Sponsors were NOT seeking to provoke a retaliatory invasion of Cuba and/or a nuclear strike on the U.S.S.R.

Their point was not to end the power-preserving, profit-generating game (aka the Cold War), but to prolong it.

Toward this end, they set out to promote cooperation with the cover-up among non-conspiratorial political, military, intelligence, and law enforcement officials who, aware of the too-obvious conspiracy, nonetheless would turn blind eyes toward it rather than risk WW III.

2. The Chicago "plot" is just one of many immensely significant doppelgangers that permeate the JFK conspiracy, including the cover-up. The alleged rabid right wing politics of patsy Vallee are best seen as the inverted image of LHO's alleged rabid left wing politics.

If I may reiterate the scenario that drives my hypothesis: In the months, weeks, and days leading up to 11/22, the inevitable and anticipated (by conspiracy Facilitators) leaks in the Dallas conspiracy have dripped all the way to the White House. In the aggregate, they indicate that a political extremist of a certain age and military background has been brought into a plot to kill the president. The deed will be done by one or more rifle teams. They may be pro- or anti-Castro Cubans, the patsy may be boasting pro- or anti-Castro sentiments. The patsy will be shooting from an office building overlooking the presidential motorcade route through a major city on JFK's upcoming schedule.

And then Chicago is blown. A patsy and a rifle team are taken off the board (one way or another) as they prepared to kill JFK during a Chicago motorcade ... etc.

See ... It could have been Chicago OR Dallas, Mr. President. But in fact it was Chicago, and we've taken care of it.

Relax, everybody. Relax.

The LHO-Vallee similarities are superficial, but sufficient for the purpose of conflation. So too the venues and tactical similarities of the attacks.

The Chicago "plot" was a feint.

IMLANHO (In my learned and not humble opinion!)

By the way: Please excuse the long delays in reading my responses to yours and others' posts. Circumstances, circumstances ...

Charles - thank you for that fresh iteration of the hypothesis.

I will throw some simple, tangential, observations into the mix.

Firstly, what we call reality is a flux of events, which can be observed and interpreted in many different ways. I believe the Sponsors built this fact of nature into their schemes, and intended to exploit it after the deed was done.

Secondly, classic detective fiction such as Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie creates an expectation of a clear narrative solution to a crime. All will be revealed. The reader, the audience, is satisfied, even when the plot solution is a cheat, because of the clear, simple, narrative solution. Again this is perfect ground for the Sponsors to exploit.

The core meaning of the assassination of JFK lies not in who did it, or precisely how.

The core meaning of the assassination of JFK is the ritual public slaughter of the King, to demonstrate the King's impotence when confronted with true Power.

Jan,

I am in complete agreement with your insightful comments above -- in particular your appreciation of "the core meaning of the assassination."

Such was and remains the prime agenda of the Sponsors -- those who wield "true power."

In the process of killing King John, they protected their generation's iteration on the ancient, overriding task: a method for control of the few by the many. That variation is known as the Cold War.

Ending the Cold War would have been anathema to the Sponsors. The Cold War would continue until its usefulness was outlived and a replacement was put in place. For now, let's refer to that replacement as the Clash of Cultures.