Any merit to Simkins "suite 8F" theory ?

[Peter Lemkin]

Peter

If were going to include the coverup that happened after the assassination ( including the hits on the witnesses ) i dont think we could ever put a cap on the cost.

I suppose i should have specified that i was thinking only in terms of the assassination itself and maybe the cost of getting the assassins out of the country if they ever made it out alive.

With respect, I think your conceptualization of the entire scenario, and thus the initial question, is a bit over-simplified. I'm not sure you have a full spectrum view of all that happened....moving the Cabinet out of the Country, moving people like Prouty to Antarctica [he was in New Zealand when it happened]; the fake SS men in DP; the years of threatening and elimination of witnesses...et al., ad nauseum. Add to that the several previous attempts [or practice runs or dodges to confuse?] in Chicago and in Florida [either 1 or 2]; the spying on and interference with the Garrison Trial; The SS spying on JKF, physically, in the months before...and again I don't care to attempt to list it all that happened before; during; after...it takes LOTS of reading the better books to begin to get the full view - and I don't claim to have learned it all, nor remember all I've read without consulting notes. Only 911, IMO, was more complex. Your 'assassination itself', to me, has not much meaning - it was a plan that, yes, involved the public murder of the President, but it was much more - to take over the USG more completely by a hidden power group and reverse certain directions JFK was heading or planning to head. The preparations [over years] and the cover-up [for 50 years] cannot, IMO be separated out from the 'assassination', unless you're only curious what a sharpshooter mechanic got paid for his days' work [many were subsequently eliminated if there was any hint they would talk or be discovered by researchers or nosy investigators]. And what about Nigel who was being controlled by both the CIA and the KGB? It was all part of the massive [and clever/complex] operation [with false trails and halls of mirrors built into the plans - and more added later]. I'm not sure what was behind your question. Have you read JFK and the Unspeakable? If not, I'd suggest starting there for the quickest coming up to speed on the basic motivations and actions. I'm no fan of Simkin [FAR from it!], but I don't even believe he thinks the Suite 8F alone was involved or even centrally involved/coordinating.....if he does, he's really got no clue or has an 'agenda'. Yes, they were involved - but many groups were, and each group was lured in by using their own private/selfish reasons to have JFK 'be gone'. The Central Power Group behind it all had all those individual reasons and more - control of the USA [from a hidden position] and permanent plans for endless wars; rule by hidden Oligarchy; mega MEGA profits; massive propaganda and control mechanisms; and heading toward neo-Feudalism/neo-Fascism, with a not-so-gradual dismantling of what was left of Constitutional Democracy. They have all but succeeded. The 'cost' to our liberty, National (and World) security and polity/rule of law is infinitely more important, IMO, than any dollar amounts. JFK's plans to control and subvert the Fed - perhaps do away with it eventually, was yet another reason for his demise...and a clue to another group involve. To simplify the event, is to not do it justice - and to make it impossible to see what was happening, motivating, and by whom.