The WAR between JFK and CIA

[Jim Hargrove]

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?

Maybe you're onto something here. I'm certainly enjoying this dialog, and don't mean to categorically deny your accusations; but otoh, you may be parsing these times and facts a little too closely. At the Federal level, Hoover would obviously be the point man here, and for someone without info from the FBI or the Secret Service to say the sole assassin had already been identified, captured, and all his contacts cleared two or three hours after the hit would surely have sounded more stupid in 1963 than it does now. I'm pretty sure people like Bundy and Harriman were not fools.

Since his infamous 1960 memo to State's Office of Security ("there is a possibility an imposter is using Oswald's birth certificate"), Hoover knew, or soon knew, there were two Oswalds. There is quite a bit of evidence that the American-born Oswald made several trips to Cuba, including, if memory serves, when Russian-speaking Oswald was in Minsk, and that the birth Oswald was interviewed by the FBI about these trip(s). The most logical assumption, to me, is that Hoover confused the biographies in these early hours after the assassination.