14-01-2014, 04:01 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:If you don't see the Paine's as CIA/intelligence babysitters and set-up folks for the Oswald's, you're either very new to this or misinformed. Michael Paine's boss at Bell Helicopter was Dornberger, who was von Braun's boss and underling of Kammler in Nazi Germany - came here under Paperclip; Ruth Paine has relations that were intelligence related and their actions and non-actions throughout the time they knew the Oswalds are totally suspect [I'm not going to go into all this..it is out there in many places]. After that mission, Ruth did CIA work in Nicaragua. Both IMO 100% CIA. Not to mention that Ruth did the final act of emplacing Lee in the pre-planned position for the patsy in the TSBD job. She's a good liar and of course plays the innocent non-intelligence person...don't they all.
That all may well be true, Peter.
I was just pointing out that she, in her testimony, actually does a disservice to those who would have him made a quick-and-easy patsy by saying things that hampered the authorities from having hard-and-fast witness testimony to bury Lee with. As I said, case in point, she could have thrown him under the bus with "Yea. I saw that rifle plain as day in the garage. It was that rifle right there. I saw it." ... instead she says it couldn't be seen easily if at all, that she doesn't really remember even seeing it in her garage very clearly at all (as if she could be mistaken about the entire affair) that if she did remember seeing it, it wasn't until quite recently, and I believe she also was the one who stated that the strap was different.
But perhaps you are correct in that, already having "played her part" she was free to do and say as she pleased in front of the commission.