The WAR between JFK and CIA

[Jim Hargrove]

Thanks, Cliff. It's an interesting post, and I'd like to see some of the evidence behind several of the points, but even if every single thing checks out, I'd still say it is essentially irrelevant.

First, the news stories at the top of this thread have Administration officials accusing the CIA only, not State, not the Joint Chiefs or the Pentagon. Remember the language in the Starnes piece:
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Twice the CIA flatly refused to carry out instructions from Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, according to a high United States source here.

In one of these instances the CIA frustrated a plan of action Mr. Lodge brought with him from Washington because the agency disagreed with it.

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Other American agencies here are incredibly bitter about the CIA.
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"If the United States ever experiences a 'Seven Days in May' it will come from the CIA, and not from the Pentagon," one U.S. official commented caustically.
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("Seven Days in May" is a fictional account of an attempted military coup to take over the U.S. Government.)
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CIA "spooks" (a universal term for secret agents here) have penetrated every branch of the American community in Saigon, until non-spook Americans here almost seem to be suffering a CIA psychosis.
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An American field officer with a distinguished combat career speaks angrily about "that man at headquarters in Saigon wearing a colonel's uniform." He means the man is a CIA agent, and he can't understand what he is doing at U.S. military headquarters here, unless it is spying on other Americans.
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Another American officer, talking about the CIA, acidly commented: "You'd think they'd have learned something from Cuba but apparently they didn't."

Even more significantly, it seems pretty clear that the purpose of the assassination was to provoke an invasion of Cuba. That's why a man identifying himself as LHO tried to buy rifles from Robert McKeown, Castro's personal friend and gun-runner. Had McKeown not smelled a rat, especially when an unusually high price was offered for the guns, you can bet one of those rifles would have become the murder weapon. And, of course, the FPCC charade fit right into the Castro-did-it scenario.

Jim