02-11-2013, 05:34 PM
Sorry if I'm pointing out the obvious to everyone, but let me just quickly review some highlights of the attempt to blame the assassination on Cuba.
1. In August, an Oswald gets himself arrested for handing out Fair Play for Cuba Committee literature. As part of the setup, the CIA's Clay Shaw probably gets Oswald involved with the FBI's Guy Banister. The association of Oswald with both the CIA and the FBI is enough to put an investigation into cover-up mode right from the start, no other ingredients required.
2. In September, an Oswald approaches Castro's personal friend and gun supplier Robert McKeown and offers to pay up to three times the retail price for four Savage automatic rifles. No doubt one of these rifles was supposed to have appeared at the assassination scene instead of a certain Italian carbine.
3. An Oswald or two visit Mexico City to try to travel on to Cuba and, we're told, one of them shouts about killing Kennedy outside the Cuban Consulate.
4. Days later, an Oswald applies for a job at Continental Oil and tells the the interviewer he had tried to visit Cuba a few days earlier.
5. In November, a note signed "Lee Oswald" is slipped under the door of the President of the Cuban Liberation Committee.
6. An hour after an Oswald's arrest, Hoover writes, "Oswald made several trips to Cuba...."
7. At Dallas Police HQ, Ruby corrects Henry Wade's reference to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
And on and on. Even people who believe the assassination was all about the Russian bogey-man and proxy wars in S.E. Asia will probably admit that there were people among the rabid anti-Castro immigrants and the CIA personnel who supported them who hated Kennedy for his decisions about the Bay of Pigs and for whatever they may have known about agreements following the missile crisis. For them, this issue wasn't just about the care and feeding of the Warfare State. It was personal.
Was President Kennedy moderating his Cold War views toward the end of his life? Clearly. Had he decided to wind down the campaign against North Vietnam late in his life? The record seems to indicates so. Did LBJ reverse that policy? Obviously. Was a significant portion of military brass ready to go to war in SE Asia? Yes, again... BUT....
Where is any real non-circumstantial evidence that the whole blame-Castro-for-the-assassination setup was merely Phase One in a larger plan? To me, the case for that is surely possible, but not compelling.
Jim
1. In August, an Oswald gets himself arrested for handing out Fair Play for Cuba Committee literature. As part of the setup, the CIA's Clay Shaw probably gets Oswald involved with the FBI's Guy Banister. The association of Oswald with both the CIA and the FBI is enough to put an investigation into cover-up mode right from the start, no other ingredients required.
2. In September, an Oswald approaches Castro's personal friend and gun supplier Robert McKeown and offers to pay up to three times the retail price for four Savage automatic rifles. No doubt one of these rifles was supposed to have appeared at the assassination scene instead of a certain Italian carbine.
3. An Oswald or two visit Mexico City to try to travel on to Cuba and, we're told, one of them shouts about killing Kennedy outside the Cuban Consulate.
4. Days later, an Oswald applies for a job at Continental Oil and tells the the interviewer he had tried to visit Cuba a few days earlier.
5. In November, a note signed "Lee Oswald" is slipped under the door of the President of the Cuban Liberation Committee.
6. An hour after an Oswald's arrest, Hoover writes, "Oswald made several trips to Cuba...."
7. At Dallas Police HQ, Ruby corrects Henry Wade's reference to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
And on and on. Even people who believe the assassination was all about the Russian bogey-man and proxy wars in S.E. Asia will probably admit that there were people among the rabid anti-Castro immigrants and the CIA personnel who supported them who hated Kennedy for his decisions about the Bay of Pigs and for whatever they may have known about agreements following the missile crisis. For them, this issue wasn't just about the care and feeding of the Warfare State. It was personal.
Was President Kennedy moderating his Cold War views toward the end of his life? Clearly. Had he decided to wind down the campaign against North Vietnam late in his life? The record seems to indicates so. Did LBJ reverse that policy? Obviously. Was a significant portion of military brass ready to go to war in SE Asia? Yes, again... BUT....
Where is any real non-circumstantial evidence that the whole blame-Castro-for-the-assassination setup was merely Phase One in a larger plan? To me, the case for that is surely possible, but not compelling.
Jim