Cliff Varnell Wrote:Jim Hargrove Wrote:Centering on CIA personnel, but extending into several other circles, Mr. Simpich makes a clear and convincing case in the conclusion of his brilliant online book about Mexico City and the Oswald impersonations entitled State Secret. Read it here:
Jim
Bill Simpich writes:
Quote:[B]Conclusion[/B]
I want to start this wrap-up with a caveat. Reasonable people disagree about whether a group of people conducted the assassination or whether Oswald acted alone.
::face.palm::
I couldn't disagree more.
JFK's back wound was too low to have been associated with his throat wound. Period. End of subject.
Those who contend otherwise may hold firm opinions, but they display nothing "reasonable" in the way of fact to support their ill-informed, mal-historical view.
To assume that the guys who were tasked with the "Castro-did-it" Oswald killing/cover-up were also tasked with JFK's actual killing is a non sequitur, imo.
Maybe so, maybe not.
Hi, again, Cliff. Let's at least give Mr. Simpich a full airing of the conclusion of his conclusion. Here 'tis:
Conclusion
I want to start this wrap-up with a caveat. Reasonable people disagree about whether a group of people conducted the assassination or whether Oswald acted alone. Most people do not have the time to investigate this case in depth. I find that when people engage in a serious investigation, they are shocked by the state of the evidence. That is why I don't get mad or discouraged when casual observers don't accept my analysis of the assassination. I am confident that the facts are continuing to come out. For example, I am convinced that the impersonation of Oswald is a historical fact, but I do understand why people who are unfamiliar with the evidence refuse to draw the same conclusion.
The molehunt remains a theory. Further analysis is required to see if it holds up to scrutiny. If insiders like Morales spurred on the molehunt or if they simply knew about it - they had great material to use for blackmailing the CIA and FBI. And even if the molehunt didn't happen which I find very hard to believe - take it one more step. By having Lee Oswald as the sole suspect, just the possibility of being forced to expose the role of the wiretapping in Mexico City to the world was great blackmail material. How about being forced to expose the photosurveillance? Revealing to the entire world CI/SIG's key role in conducting in-house investigations of the CIA itself? How Harvey and his people at Staff D did second-story jobs around the world to crack codes and set up taps for the NSA? Remember how Warren Report author Alfred Goldberg said that Earl Warren's caution that some files would only be revealed "not in your lifetime" was "precisely" a reference to the work of the NSA.[ 53 ]
Any one of these things alone was a major barrier to a reasonable investigation. When all these obstacles are put together, the cover-up was the only possible result. Oswald was a great person to frame, because all of these tender spots came immediately into play.
Once the background is understood, this is not a complicated analysis. The czars of counterintelligence had created a complicated legend around Oswald. When the assassination happened, huge areas of terrain were deemed too sensitive to investigate. This terrain included the impersonation of Oswald, the September 28 and October 1 phone calls, the documented travel of David Phillips, the ensuing molehunt set forth in the October 8 memo and the twin memos of October 10, and the tale of the tapes. It also included the Castro assassination plots, the Cubela story, the FPCC, and just about anything to do with double agents or Cuba.
There is no way to justify these mighty agencies folding their arms and refusing to look at the role of the pro-Castro Cubans, much less the angry and belligerent anti-Castro underground. The top intelligence chiefs such as Ted Shackley at JMWAVE and Ray Wannall and Richard Cotter at the FBI testified at great length that they believed or were told that there was no need for them to get involved.
When the accusations began that the Agency had a role in JFK's death, it's no accident that the pseudonym used by the CIA to refer to itself switched to JKLANCE.
The JFK story has always resonated for the Agency. Interviews with CIA officers reveal the deep emotions running during those times. Many of them liked JFK, while many others hated him. The pseudonym for JFK used by the Secret Service was Lancer he was the knight on a white horse. When the accusations began that the Agency had a role in JFK's death, it's no accident that the pseudonym used by the CIA to refer to itself switched to JKLANCE. At a minimum, the CIA chiefs knew that the JFK assassination did not receive an adequate investigation.
What will it mean when the impersonation of Oswald is accepted as a historical fact? That day is rapidly approaching. It's a reasonable corollary to the Mexico City tapes surviving the assassination, which has finally been accepted by most historians after decades of denial. If the impersonation is accepted, that leads to the conclusion that the CIA knew Oswald was impersonated before the assassination, with everything that implies.
It leads to a second conclusion: Forces in the CIA made sure that the post-assassination investigation covered up the existence of the tapes, which made a meaningful investigation impossible.
The third conclusion? Forces in the CIA covered up the impersonation because of their fear that the killing of John F. Kennedy was an inside job, done with the assistance of CIA officers who knew what action to take to make sure that the assassins got away with it.
In my opinion, we already have enough facts to embrace these conclusions as true. We will continue to learn a lot more as we analyze the existing documents and new documents are released. The watchdog group OMB Watch issued a report in 2002 saying an ARRB employee reported that "well over a million CIA records" related to JFK's assassination remain outstanding. That number doesn't include FBI, Secret Service, Naval Intelligence and other records.
We know virtually nothing about the history of military intelligence in the United States; it should be no surprise that these agencies provided very few documents. While the FBI and CIA provided hundreds of thousands of documents to the ARRB, the NSA provided less than 400. We are only gradually learning how the NSA built the surveillance state in America since World War II, with the JFK case providing a bird's eye view into this story.
Although we should keep fighting hard for the rest of the documents, it's just as important that we read and analyze the ones we have. It's the right time to put together a counter-narrative. We need a process to break down the evidentiary facts that we can easily agree on based on the documents themselves. Compared to acoustics, firearms, blood spatter, motion studies, and a host of other technical subjects, document analysis is a snap.
I've always liked Oliver Stone's movie JFK, and I'll tell you why. To defeat a myth, you need a better story. I believe in the power of the story. If you don't have a story, you're going to get beat. After many years, we finally have most of the documents. For many years, the researchers were trapped with few documents and were working in the dark. That's why it's taken so long. We have been methodically kept in the dark. It wasn't the fault of the American people. But if we continue to stay in the dark, we will have to blame ourselves.
The surviving SAS officers, Nationalities Intelligence officers, CI/SIG officers, and others described in this manuscript and there are a surprising number of them still alive - should be permanently relieved of their oaths re the JFK case and asked many more questions. Ever since 1963, these officers have been forced to honor their oaths except on very specific circumstances when they are questioned during a congressional inquiry.
Similarly, the informants in this case should be exposed to the sunlight while they are still able to be questioned. How can we expect to get to the truth of many of these events when the informants continue to be hidden by the government? People like LITAMIL-9 and Victor Vicente can answer thousands of questions about such operations as the LIENVOY wiretaps in Mexico City and the FPCC break-ins in New York City, and they are almost certainly still alive.
Like in the nineties, it's time to return the power to subpoena statements and documents to an independent board of citizens. We can do this by passing a new version of the 1992 JFK Records Act, which the courts have refused to enforce since the Assassinations Records Review Board shuttered its doors in 1998. I ask all readers to review and comment on this proposal, which I will circulate. New board members, historians chosen by the executive branch, can interview the remaining witnesses before their deaths and ensure continued compliance by agencies and individuals with the 1992 legislation. This model can be used in other cold cases. This is the path to restore the world's history to the people themselves. There is no reason to hide the documents in these cases from the light of day.
With the release of the documents, the American public has now a better place to view the mechanics of this tragedy than even Angleton, Helms and Hoover had in their prime. No one ever imagined that these documents would reach the public, much less be scanned and cross-indexed on the Internet. These documents are filled with stunning revelations. Much of the reason for this book was to let others know how much new information is at our fingertips.
Illuminating the dark fields of the republic
Many people have resigned themselves to F. Scott Fitzgerald's vision of the future. Author H. Lloyd Goodell notes that The Great Gatsby came into fashion after World War II as a codebook to the Cold War.
And as I sat there, brooding on the old unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further.... And one fine morning----
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past…
As a friend of Fitzgerald told him, "Living well is the best revenge." All of us have the power to change the outcome of the JFK story, and many other stories like it. One researcher has described the JFK case as "a jigsaw puzzle the size of a football field." As far back as in 1967, David Lifton and other researchers had big parts of the puzzle put together in publications such as Ramparts. Large sections of the story now fit into place, as the JFK Act has enabled ordinary citizens to actually read the files. There's no reason to reduce it to a series of frightening freeze-frames and arid cliches. Powerful changes result from a people asking never-imagined questions, taking a long, unblinking look at themselves, and absorbing valuable and important truths at the end of the journey. The JFK case is history in the making.
I believe that the impersonation of Oswald is a historical fact that has brought us to a critical turning point in the investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. We can now turn our collective attention to who impersonated Oswald and why. This is a key to actually resolving the question of the assassination itself. I have offered my findings on it, like others in the past now is the time to analyze these findings and move the discussion forward.
Alice Walker, the author of The Color Purple, addresses what we face with no small eloquence: "Only justice will stop a curse." This case will haunt America and the world unless and until we resolve it. There is no government agency or corporate benefactor that can do it all for us. It falls to each one of us to shoulder our share of the load on this case. Just as with the Sixties cases such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, and more recent cases such as Tupac Shakur. Just as with the history of lynchings, abuse of power, and wrongful convictions. Just as with the legacy of slavery and the wars waged on the original inhabitants who lived on this land. There is no other way. We can move together towards a morning that bathes light on the dark fields of the Republic.
This work is integral to all movements that build civil society in the United States and around the world. Assassinations are a heinous tool used to prevent individuals and movements from realizing their potential. Assassinations are designed to break the spirit of the people.
Do we want to maintain our integrity as a people? The only way is to stand shoulder to shoulder and get it done. Many champions fighting for social change have fallen to forces that avoid the light. The path to justice is to name those forces and to take decisive action.
Jim
