The WAR between JFK and CIA

[Cliff Varnell]

That's fast, Cliff, but not as fast as J. Edgar, who was probably the source of this early info for Kennedy aides.

Dueling cover-ups!

"The real history of the world is a history of competing conspiracies." Ishmael Reed.

Yes, the early info Hoover was pushing was that Oswald was part of "the pro-Castro" crowd and had been to Cuba -- consistent with Dallas Ass. DA Alexander writing up charges on Oswald as part of an international communist conspiracy.

Hoover sure wasn't pushing Oswald as a lone nut. Hoover wanted to see Castro over-thrown as much as anyone.

Bundy told Johnson the lone assassin was in custody.

3pm CST = 4pm EST. Hoover and Bundy were pushing competing cover-ups almost simultaneously.

The winners and losers here are obvious, no?

November 22, 1963-at 3:01 pm (CST), Hoover wrote, "I called the Attorney

General at his home and told him I thought we had the man who killed the

President down in Dallas . .. .I related that Oswald went to Russia and stayed

three years; came back to the United States in June, 1962, and went to Cuba

on several occasions but would not tell us what he went to Cuba for.179 Harvey

Oswald was never in Cuba, yet Hoover made this announcement only one hour after

Oswald's arrest!

November 22, 1963-at 4:15 (CST), Hoover wrote, "I told Mr. Schlei I thought

very probably we had in custody the man who killed the President .... I stated

he was born an American but tried unsuccessfully to lose his American

citizenship .... I stated he would be in the category of a nut and the extremist

pro-Castro crowd ..... Oswald made several trips to Cuba: upon his return each

time we interviewed him about what he went to Cuba for and he answered

that it was none of our business .... .I stated our Agents view him as a nut as he

freezes up and withdraws into himself when he is being questioned as he did

this afternoon down in Dallas." 180 Not a single one of the people who sat in during

Oswald's interrogation said he froze up or withdrew into himself during questioning.

If Hoover was truthful when he wrote, "Upon his return each time we interviewed him

about what he went to Cuba for. .... ," then Hoover knew that Lee Oswald had been to

Cuba.

November 22, 1963-after sitting in on Harvey Oswald's first interrogation, SA

James Hosty was ordered by an unidentified FBI counterintelligence officer

to have no further discussions with Oswald and not to investigate his back*

wound.181

Notes:
179. FBI memorandum from Hoover to Tolson, Belmont, Mohr, DeLoach, Evans, Rosen, Sullivan, 11/22/63,4:01 pm.
180. FBI memorandum from Hoover to Tolson, Belmont, Mohr, DeLoach, Evans, Rosen, Sullivan, 11/22/63, 5:15 pm.
181. Nigel Turner, "The Men Who Killed Kennedy," interview of James Hosty.

Above from Harvey and Lee by John Armstrong, page 913.