The WAR between JFK and CIA

[Jim Hargrove]

It is with that understanding that I cannot accept the CIA-focused self-evident evidence as the last line in the sand (Sorry Jim) but as the first line of defense with the Military and all its acronyms pulling the operational strings...
With the likes of the Cravath, Swaine and Moore crowd reaping the benefits... and providing the necessary cover

DJ

David,

It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the plot involved people in the military or even the Administration itself. The problem is the lack of solid evidence. James Douglass painted a fantastic portrait of just how many enemies Kennedy must have made in the military and elsewhere in the MIC, but that doesn't mean soldiers plotted to kill him.

Compare that to the evidence against the Agency: contemporary news accounts of the war gone public between the Administration and the Agency, the fact that an unnamed Administration official publicly predicted the possibility of a CIA coup six weeks before the coup actually happened, the sworn testimony of the CIA accountant that he was told money he disbursed to an encrypted account as late as a few weeks before the assassination was for "Oswald or the Oswald project," Mark Lane's jury victory in the E. Howard Hunt libel trial, the comments implying CIA involvement made by various government attorneys after their various published whitewashes were completed, and on and on.

If you accuse soldiers and others of being involved in the assassination, but have no direct evidence to back up the claim, you leave yourself and our cause open to criticism that is tough to deflect. Maybe the plotters weren't quite as crafty as you think. My assumption is that the plot came out of the Miami CIA station and used pissed-off Cubans who hated Kennedy as shooters, used "the Oswald Project" as cover, and they got away with it. If you have real evidence that the Agency was a secondary patsy, I'd love to hear it. Mostly what I hear though, is speculation.

Jim