JFK Organizational Chart-Central Characters

[Cliff Varnell]

Some some food for thought as you look into an Assassination Org Chart.... IMHO you're also missing mention of the Six Wise Men who were so instrumental in shaping US policy. Harriman would be my pick for Sponsor/Facilitator status.

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Harriman huddled with LBJ within minutes of the Texan's arrival at the White House.

Unless Max Holland made up an incriminating conversation, Harriman laid down the weight of the American foreign policy establishment.

The Kennedy Assassination Tapes, pg 57 (emphasis added)
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At 6:55 p.m.Johnson has a ten-minute meeting with Senator J. William Fulbright
(D-Arkansas) and diplomat W. Averell Harriman to discuss possible foreign involvement
in the assassination, especially in light of the two-and-a-half year Soviet sojourn of Lee
Harvey Oswald, a twenty-four-year-old man apprehended by Dallas police who is now
considered the chief suspect. Harriman, a U.S. ambassador to Moscow during
World War II, is an experienced interpreter of Soviet machinations and offers the
President the unanimous view of the U.S. government's top Kremlinologists. None
of them believe the Soviets have a hand in the assassination.
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In 1963 the "U.S. governments top Kremlinologists" were the Wise Men Charles Bohlen, George Kennan
and Ave Harriman.

But Harriman never spoke with either Bohlen or Kennan on 11/22/63 -- Bohlen was traveling in Europe and Kennan spent a quiet day of mourning down in Princeton with Robert Oppenheimer.

Harriman lied to LBJ.

McGeorge Bundy lied to LBJ on AF1 when he called from the Situation Room with the news that there was no sign of conspiracy in the Dallas ambush.

Both Ave and Mac were Skull & Bones.

I'm skeptical of any any organizational chart that doesn't put Ave Harriman and the elder Rockefeller Johnny D 3 at the top.