Pages 330-1 Destiny Betrayed, Skyhorse, 2012, Jock Whitney , publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, and a firm Rockefeller ally. . . .
November 23, 1963 New York Herald Tribune publishes editorial. . .cites The Assassins by former Herald Tribune reporter Robert Donovan. . ."previous American assassination attempts did not attempt to shift political power. . ."
An accompanying editorial then said that in America, assassinations have almost always been the work of 'crazed individuals representing nothing but their own wild imaginings. . . .the heat of normal politics has its reflex on the lunatic fringe.'
And continuing in the author of Destiny's words:
In other words, on the night of the assassination, Whitney's newspaper--with him reviewing the content--had predicted what the Warren Commission would conclude ten months later. That Oswald was a disturbed killer, a sociopath.
Again, author DiEugenio:
The very book that the Herald Tribune was quoting from, The Assassins, is the same book that Allen Dulles would be passing out to fellow members of the Commission at their first meeting, just two weeks later. This was a clear attempt by the former spymaster to influence the Warren Commission members. Just as Whitney's paper, under his direct supervision, was trying to inculcate the public. And there can be no doubt that Whitney knew Dulles.
Phil's comment:
Synchronicity in having just read this passage as Charles brings up the complex question of pretexts.
I submit the Bay of Pigs invasion itself was based on a public pretext of liberation and a covert intent of trapping the new president and branding him a betrayer to the impassioned trained Cubans, their intelligence handlers and the military leadership thoroughly dissatisfied with the CinC's pulling punches and seeking detente.
To be sure the false defection plus the FPCC street theater was used to paint Oswald as a Salem witch (O tempore) and it successfully demonized him.
With so much blood in the eyeballs of red-blooded Americans the rest of motive did not matter.
After Hungary 1956 and Berlin Wall and Bay of Pigs 1961, can anyone have seriously thought this administration would invade Cuba--wasn't that the point of the missile crisis negotiations, part official, part public in the press.
The controversial president is shot dead. We know now for interlocking reasons seemingly disparate yet transforming into the mailed fist of the security state.
If any needed that mythic fig leaf of conscience salve, tell 'em it was a commie plot, Kostikov and all that rot.
Clumsily done, the photos wrong, the recordings wrong according to six FBI agents in short order.
Warren might be susceptible to it. Later Frank Sturgis would claim it was KGB.
And Frank Sturgis served Helms' plot to bring down Nixon with Watergate.
Per Gibson the Commission comes from Acheson, Rostow, et al.
The lone gunman comes from Whitney and Dulles.
LBJ used 40 million killed in the first thirty minutes of a war to compel Warren.
But the Mexico City ploy wasn't convincing to LBJ and Hoover.
Sad to no longer have the DiEugenio review of Bugliosi Part III
"She's a lying, conniving bitch. And if there was any justice in this world, she'd be in jail."--Ed Lopez to Jim DiEugenio, describing Anne Goodpasture
Charles found The Package (1989) in which Soviet and U.S. milint cabals unite to assassinate their leaders finessing detente.
Would there be a mutual interest between KGB and CIA in sheepdipping Oswald in Mexico City.
I found the Frontline episode of interest:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/.../1205.html
NARRATOR: But there is much evidence that the real Oswald was in Mexico City. At the Soviet embassy, all three KGB officers told FRONTLINE the man they met was the real Lee Harvey Oswald, not the man in the photograph the CIA released.
Mr. KOSTIKOV: No, this is a completely different person. The Oswald who had visited our embassy and whose photographs I saw in many newspapers and on T.V. was completely different.
Ms. DURAN: The day after the assassination, in the Mexican newspapers were a photo of Oswald and I said to my husband, "I'm sure that this is the man who went to us for a visa." So I went to the embassy and I look up the applications and I saw his application and it was the same one.
And of course CIA ordered DFS twice to arrest Ms. Duran and not let the U.S. hand show. She was saying it was not Oswald.
But look at the attitude of the Yale CIA William F. Buckley in the 1966 Firing Line roast of Mark Lane--Buckley says Communist, Lane's a Communist, Oswald's a Communist--in the end says he doesn't care who killed Kennedy.
And you know, the truth is there: Kennedy needed killing.
The Establishment knew what it would take to get by: more than just Hoover or just Texas--it would take a blue ribbon commission.
Run by a prize ass.
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