But why go to the trouble to set Lee Harvey Oswald? If he wasn’t the assassin, who was he really? Who set him up? Who actually had the motive, opportunity, and ability to commit the crime of the century?
Some theorists claim that the mafia are likely candidates. Not so. Sure, Bobby and Jack Kennedy had connections to, and had burned bridges with the mob. But, the mob simply didn’t have the resources to cover up the evidence, didn’t have the ability to frame oswald, much less get him in and out of Russia with ease, and finally, politicians were off limits to the mafia. You could buy or blackmail government, but you could never kill government. The crackdown on the mafia resulting from their killing of Kennedy would have decimated the mob. The mafia had been employed as contract mercenaries to kill off Fidel Castro, but this was under the direct supervision of the CIA and other covert operations, and it would only be as employees of such an organization, or elements within it, that any individuals in the mob would consider involving themselves in such a risky, high profile murder.
Lyndon Johnson wouldn’t have had Kennedy bumped off- far too great a risk of discovery, and out of character, according to most credible peers and historians. (Holland) The Jimmy Hoffa/ Teamsters angle holds little water. Groups like the Texas oil Barons or Cuban exiles had plenty of motive, but they, like the mob would need sponsorship from somewhere in the intelligence community.Indeed, all likely candidates seem to lead right to our intelligence community’s doorstep.
Kennedy desired to cool cold war tensions, had signed the test ban treaty, had made secret overtures to Nikita Kruschev to peacefully end the cuban missile crisis (his military advisers were begging him to nuke Cuba), planned to withdraw from vietnam, and had refused to back the CIA’s ill fated Bay of Pigs invasion with air support. After the Bay of Pigs he beheaded the CIA- removing founders Allen Dulles, Charles Cabell, and Richard Bissell. This “gang of three” had been big shots in the banking industry and with their histories in the OSS and CIA, had obviously cultivated close ties with defense industry insiders. Their firings, Kennedy’s policy decisions, and the causes he championed in his speeches- peace, prosperity, and understanding between the USA and the USSR meant that what was once a very profitable cold war was about to become a hell of a lot less profitable- in fact, some probably feared that it would come to an end all together. Kennedy’s refusal to assist the Bay of Pigs invaders had left many anti-Castro cubans, the mercenaries , and CIA operators who fought so vehemently feel betrayed, and some wanted to taste Kennedy’s blood for it. For these reasons, small, reactionary, right-wing factions within our government and defense industry converged and committed the crime of century.
So where does Lee Harvey Oswald fit into this elaborate conspiracy? CIA agent James Wilcott testified to the House Select Committee on Assassinations that Oswald was a double agent working for american intelligence when he was stationed at El Toro Air Force base while in the Marines. The HSCA chose to ignore this testimony. (Marrs, 104) In 1959, the year Oswald defected to the Soviet Union, the US had engaged a counter intelligence program involving up to 40 men- these men would pretend to renounce their citizenship, go to the Soviet Union, and become double agents. (Marrs, 117) Does this sound familiar? The implication that Oswald was a double agent suddenly makes all sorts of loose ends tie together. Why did the state department let him back into the country after his treason? Why was he not prosecuted? Why was J. Edgar Hoover concerned that someone was using his ID while he was in the USSR? Why circulate so many dopplegangers of Oswald? Why did Oswald make so many friends with intelligence contacts and hang out with people of apparently disparate political values? Because he was a spy, and his Marxist persona was a front.
It is by no means certain what Oswald was doing when he came back to America. The more popular theories, circulated by Jim Garrison and Jim Marrs tend to believe that Oswald was likely a double agent tracking the actions of Anti-Castro groups within and without the intelligence community, and/or that he stumbled upon a plot to kill JFK by these groups and had infiltrated it. At some point there was a turning of the screw. Someone knew Oswald was a double agent, or someone had been manipulating Oswald from the get go. They set him up to take the fall for the murder.
Consider the gross misconduct of the Dallas police. Oswald was interrogated for 12 hours with no lawyer present, thus nothing he said could be used in court, and regardless the interrogation was not recorded. The chain of evidence for nearly all the items in the case is broken, non-existent, and haphazzard. Oswald could not be positively tested for firing a gun of any kind when a nitrate test was administered. Oswald’s prints could not be discovered on the so-called murder weapon until after Oswald had died.
Earle Cabell, brother of the aforementioned Charles, was the mayor of Dallas at the time of the parade. Its likely that he changed the parade route, in order to make the limo take that deadly slow turn down Elm street. Going down Elm put Kennedy in a deadly triangulation of crossfire, as Garrison worded it. Kennedy could easily be hit from the Dal-Tex building, the TSBD, behind the grassy knoll and several other areas. Who else but agents within the government could make the Secret Service stand down from riding on the back rails of the limo and decline back up protection arrive in Dallas? Who else but intelligence community officials could plant fake Secret Service agents out near the grassy knoll? Who else but government agents could steal the president’s body and make a clean get away aboard Air Force One? Who else but those within the government could insure not just a botched autopsy but that vital evidence from that autopsy simply disappears? Jack Ruby, waiting in the wings to clean up the mess of the patsy who knew too much is allowed into Dallas Police headquarters, and Oswald is forever silenced. Of course all the dirty secrets of the CIA and FBI stood to get exposed if a competent investigation had been undertaken. So J. Edgar Hoover performed a quick, shallow investigation.Brought into the Warren Commission, Allen Dulles whom Kennedy had fired three years earlier, to keep the CIA’s war chest out of the hands of the Warren Commission. Major defense corporations have an owning interest in the major media outlets so maintaining media complicity in the biggest lie of our time has been effortless.
From Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, 1961:
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
RESOURCES:
Garrison, Jim. On The Trail of the Assassins. Sherridan Square press. 1988
Hearings Before The President’s Commission on The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Gov’t Printing Office. 1964
Hurt, Henry. Reasonable Doubt. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. 1985
Nechiporenko, Oleg M. Passport to Assassination. Carol Publishing Co. 1993
The Men Who Killed Kennedy. Television Documentary. Turner, Nigel;Director. 1988, 1990, 1995.
Blakey, G. Robert G. and Richard Billings. Fatal Hour. Berkley Books. 1992
Armstrong, John. Harvey and Lee. Quasar Books. 2003
RE: Too Many Oswalds..URL: http://www.jfklancer.com/Page4.html
Holland, Max. “The Assassination Tapes” Atlantic Monthly. June 2004
Marrs, Jim. Crossfire, the plot that killed Kennedy.
No comments:
Post a Comment