Vasilios Vazakas Wrote:Was J.E.Hoover an accessory before or after the fact to the assassination?
After the fact for sure. Did he have a hint about JFK being killed prior? Maybe if Jim Douglas is correct. I'd suggest reading Tony Summers book on him and there's some other ones out there. Which Jim has looked into and I haven't. But involved in the assassination no. Knew it was in the wind likely. Knew when? Nope to all!
And the story at the Murchisons is bunk.
Could it be possible that FBI people like Alan Belmont and William Sullivan were involved in the plot or had pre assassination knowledge?
A lot of researchers seem to believe the story about the Murchison party and they refer to the maid of the house who told that story. I just don't know.
Hoover's Secret Files
The FBI director kept famous files on everything from Martin Luther King's sex life to never-before-reported secret meetings between RFK and Marilyn Monroe, as a new book reveals. An exclusive excerpt from Ronald Kessler's 'The Secrets of the FBI
THis guy was a conduit for Phillips at the time of the HSCA.
Now he is going to try and revive that RFK and MM crap with Hoover's secret files?
What secret files. They were all disappeared by his secretary.
It figures that TIna Brown would push this crap. Recall, she hired Jerry Posner.
I have never seen anything convincing that Hoover was in on the plot that took JFK's life. In fact, if you listen to the tapes, he has not the foggiest idea of what was going on in Mexico City. Which for me, was the lynchpin.
Now, did he cover the thing up from day one? You bet.
I had read Kessler's Moscow Station which makes ONI look pathetic.
(In retrospect, "nobody does intel like CIA.")
I did read the Summers Official and Confidential and the marginally useful first North on Hoover, Act of Treason, as well as references throughout Gerald D. McKnight, Breach of Trust.
All indicators point to Hoover's animus towards the brothers Kennedy surfacing in his cold call to Robert, and his immediate smothering of investigation by his agents beyond the sole suspect.
He was burned by CIA claims regarding Mexico City activities and so noted in memo marginalia.
He suppressed so much the list would be endless. How many witnesses said, "That's not what I told them," yet without a tape recorder or stenographer, two FBI agents filtered through their superiors strained the soup to a thin North Korean fare.
Weberman cites Kessler as serving Phillips' painting of Oswald as the spy soliciting Soviet subsidy:
Evidence existed that the transcripts did not reflect the true nature of OSWALD'S contacts with the Soviets. The translator and typist's wife, Mrs. Anna Tarasoff, remembered the word "information" being used. Journalist Ron Kessler was told by DAVID PHILLIPS that during one of OSWALD'S conversations with the Soviets he stated: "I have information you would be interested in, and I know you can pay my way to Russia." The stenographer who typed up the transcript and the translator who prepared it had similar recollections: "OSWALD said he had some information to tell the Russians. His main concern was getting to one of the two countries (Russia or Cuba), and he wanted them to pay him for it. He said he had to meet them." [Washington Post 11.26.76] The HSCA verified this: "The HSCA has contacted the persons who allegedly translated and typed the manuscripts. Both of them said that in his conversations with the foreign embassies OSWALD did talk of a 'deal' to go to Russia." [CIA George T. Kalaris IG Memo 77-0244] The CIA did a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of Ron Kessler's article which was highly deleted. [Allen v. DOD CIA 21689-0843]
The Kessler who would reveal the secret history of the CIA would tell us Robert Kennedy used a borrowed white Lincoln convertible for clandestine visits to Marilyn Monroe, King had sex orgies and Hoover and Tolson were lovers, that Hoover was thoroughly corrupt--
The good little CIA punk dirties up all the other kids.
