04-01-2014, 05:55 PM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:I disagree that the conspiracy could not have been spun that far in advance.
I mean, how else does one explain the Clinton/Jackson incident?
I agree that Shaw and Ferrie might not have known the ultimate aim of that exercise.
But they sure as heck did know after.
Or else why was Ferrie frantic to find if Oswald had used his library card, and to eliminate any photo of him and he together in the CAP?
And why did Ferrie risk multiple counts of perjury and obstruction of justice by lying his head off in his FBI interview?
My feeling is that the N. Orleans stuff was compartmentalized. But once the news hit, these guys knew what had happened and they were a part of it. ANd they did typical CYA stuff. Unawares that the upper level plotters were going to have Oswald killed on short notice anyway.
I broadly agree with this, but the question then arises: who was controlling Shaw and Ferrie?
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― Leo Tolstoy,
― Leo Tolstoy,