15-06-2014, 07:22 PM
In the demonology of the far right during the Cold War, there were more than a few who believed that the CIA was filled with Ivy League liberals who were actually helping the international communist conspiracy. That's crazy, of course, but more than a few Birchers and their ilk believed that. Nixon and Pat Buchanan seemed to have bought into that idea to some degree.
If you define "liberal" as a "globalist," then I guess the CIA (and most of the Elite establishment) fits that description, and for many American ultra-nationalists, this is what they mean when they talk about the New World Order.
As for blaming the CIA that early, Richard Starnes in December 1963 wrote, "Will the presence on the panel of Allen Dulles, erstwhile headmaster of the Central Intelligence Agency, assure us that the truth of Oswald's sojourn in the Soviet Union will ever be known?" The CIA was still an unknown entity to most Americans in the early 60s.
I like what M.S. Arnoni wrote in January 1964, which comes closer to the truth in my opinion:
Let us make the "fantastic" assumption that President Lyndon Johnson and Attorney-General Robert F. Kennedy know or believe that the murder was planned by a group of high-ranking officers who would stop at nothing to end American-Soviet negotiations. However strong their desire to avenge John F. Kennedy, what course would be open to them? To move against such formidable conspirators might start a disastrous chain of events. It could lead to American troops shooting at other American troops. It could lead to a direct take-over by a military clique. To avert such catastrophes, it might well be considered prudent to pretend utter ignorance, in the hope that the conspirators might be removed from power discreetly, at a later date, one by one.
Quote from Jim:
Bob Tanenbaum told an audience in Chicago, and myself personally, what Schweiker told him in private quarters. He handed him Gaeton Fonzi's file on Bishop/Phillips. As he did so, he said words to the effect, The CIA killed President Kennedy.
Well, at this point that kind of hearsay doesn't do much for us. Politicians are nearly always worried about maintaining their political viability and protecting the institutions of government. Especially when the plotters are in the Pentagon and the CIA, as I believe. The former are the big dogs, and the latter are just one of many intelligence agencies (foreign and domestic) that help do the dirty work.
If you define "liberal" as a "globalist," then I guess the CIA (and most of the Elite establishment) fits that description, and for many American ultra-nationalists, this is what they mean when they talk about the New World Order.
As for blaming the CIA that early, Richard Starnes in December 1963 wrote, "Will the presence on the panel of Allen Dulles, erstwhile headmaster of the Central Intelligence Agency, assure us that the truth of Oswald's sojourn in the Soviet Union will ever be known?" The CIA was still an unknown entity to most Americans in the early 60s.
I like what M.S. Arnoni wrote in January 1964, which comes closer to the truth in my opinion:
Let us make the "fantastic" assumption that President Lyndon Johnson and Attorney-General Robert F. Kennedy know or believe that the murder was planned by a group of high-ranking officers who would stop at nothing to end American-Soviet negotiations. However strong their desire to avenge John F. Kennedy, what course would be open to them? To move against such formidable conspirators might start a disastrous chain of events. It could lead to American troops shooting at other American troops. It could lead to a direct take-over by a military clique. To avert such catastrophes, it might well be considered prudent to pretend utter ignorance, in the hope that the conspirators might be removed from power discreetly, at a later date, one by one.
Quote from Jim:
Bob Tanenbaum told an audience in Chicago, and myself personally, what Schweiker told him in private quarters. He handed him Gaeton Fonzi's file on Bishop/Phillips. As he did so, he said words to the effect, The CIA killed President Kennedy.
Well, at this point that kind of hearsay doesn't do much for us. Politicians are nearly always worried about maintaining their political viability and protecting the institutions of government. Especially when the plotters are in the Pentagon and the CIA, as I believe. The former are the big dogs, and the latter are just one of many intelligence agencies (foreign and domestic) that help do the dirty work.