JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

by James W. Douglass

thirsty land

midnight truth

Words

dark powers

a large occipital fragment of the president’s skull, which will be found the next day in Dealey Plaza, was blown out—proving

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.”[14]

William Douglas-Home,

preventive direct action including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures;

In order to protect the visible authorities of the government from protest and censure, the CIA was authorized not only to violate international law but to do so with as little consultation as possible.

One pawn in the Cold War who needed a way out before it was too late was a young ex-Marine, Lee Harvey Oswald.

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On May 1, 1960, six months after Oswald defected to the Soviet Union, a U-2 was shot down by the Soviets for the first time.

future defector had a “Crypto” clearance, which was higher than “Top Secret,” and that his work immersed

Judge Botelho said Oswald’s “defection” was nothing but a U.S. intelligence ploy:

Congressional mail was running about fifteen to one against a test ban.

By the end of August, the tide of congressional mail had gone from fifteen to one against a test ban to three to two against.

Kennedy finally obtained the support of the Joint Chiefs for the test ban treaty, although Air Force chief LeMay said he would have opposed it had it not already been signed.

The Senate approved the test ban treaty by a vote of 80 to 19—14 more than the required two-thirds.

Snyder apparently treated Oswald as a privileged visitor to the Moscow Embassy. Joan Hallett, a receptionist at the embassy who was married to the assistant naval attaché, recalled in a 1994 interview that, in contrast to the official story, Oswald had come “several times” to the embassy in 1959. Hallett said Snyder and the security officer “took him upstairs to the working floors, a secure area where the Ambassador and the political, economic, and military officers were. A visitor would never get up there unless he was on official business. I was never up there.” Anthony and Robbyn Summers, “The Ghosts of November,” Vanity Fair (December 1994).

The Warren Commission knew about Oswald’s ‘Crypto’ clearance but suppressed it from being included in the record.”

David Sanchez Morales, a longtime co-worker of David Atlee Phillips. Morales would also participate in JFK’s murder, as he would admit to friends in the 1970s.

CIA Director John McCone argued that Howard’s approach to Cuba “would leak and compromise a number of CIA operations against Castro.”[33]

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Gerry Patrick Hemming

As we learn more about Lee Harvey Oswald, we will have to consider the possibility that the information he was giving the FBI may have actually been an attempt to stop the killing of the president.

In the fall of 1963, as John Kennedy and Fidel Castro sought secretly a way of rapprochement, the CIA took its own secret steps in an opposite direction, toward setting up Lee Harvey Oswald as an identifiable Soviet-and-Cuban-directed assassin of the president.

There Oswald’s potentially incriminating associations in Fort Worth and Dallas with George de Mohrenschildt and the White Russian community were expunged in the pool of Oswald’s Fair Play for Cuba dramatics.

Why was that necessary?

Sixteen years later, after Veciana did finally describe the Oswald meeting to the House Committee and came to the very edge of identifying David Atlee Phillips as “Maurice Bishop,” he was shot in the head by an unidentified gunman in Miami.

David Atlee Phillips was working under Richard Helms, the CIA’s Deputy Director of Plans and mastermind of covert action.

“Suddenly a President arrives on the scene,” he said, “who tries to support the interests of another class (which has no access to any of the levers of power) to give the various Latin American countries the impression that the United States no longer stands behind the dictators, and so there is no more need to start Castro-type revolutions. What happens then? The trusts see that their interests are being a little compromised (just barely, but still compromised); the Pentagon thinks the strategic bases are in danger; the powerful oligarchies in all the Latin American countries alert their American friends; they sabotage the new policy; and in short, Kennedy has everyone against him.”

West Berlin’s city hall on June 26, 1963. After seeing the barbarity of the Berlin Wall, the U.S. president said exuberantly, to his later chagrin, “there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists [as he himself had said and was doing]. Let them come to Berlin.”

Kennedy was in fact changing his mind in favor of a complete military withdrawal from Vietnam. However, JFK thought such a policy would never be carried out by any of his possible opponents in the 1964 election, and that its announcement now would block his own reelection.

In Kennedy’s short presidency, the military-industrial complex actually increased its profits and power.

Yet in the summer of 1963,

In 1962 Kennedy had already profoundly alienated key elements of the military-industrial complex in the steel crisis. The conflict arose from JFK’s preoccupation with steel prices, whose rise he believed “quickly drove up the price of everything else.”[8]

Attorney General Robert Kennedy moved quickly to convene a federal grand jury to investigate price fixing in Big Steel’s corporate network. He looked into the steel companies’ possible violation of anti-trust laws, an investigation his Anti-Trust Division had actually begun before the steel crisis. He now ordered the FBI to move on the steel executives with speed and thoroughness.

“the President was already setting in motion to use the full power of the Presidency to divert contracts from U.S. Steel and the other companies,” adding that “he still had several actions in reserve, including tax audits, antitrust investigations, and a thorough probe of market practices.”

As Shakespeare had it, Caesar was warned of his coming assassination by a soothsayer: “Beware the ides of March.” Fortune gave Kennedy a deadly warning of its own by the title of its editorial: “Steel: The Ides of April.”

We have no evidence as to who in the military-industrial complex may have given the order to assassinate President Kennedy.

Didn't have to come from the MIC - could very well have been an assignment Ben-Gurion handed to James Angleton.

James Angleton was the supervisor of a CIA assassination unit in the 1950s. The “small assassination team” was headed by Army colonel Boris Pash.

“ZR/RIFLE” and to apply it to Cuba,

Ann Egerter,

“Is U.S. Giving Up in the Arms Race?,” citing military authorities’ fears that Kennedy’s new strategy added up to “a type of intentional and one-sided disarmament.”

His Congo policy was also being subverted by the CIA, which had been arming the Congo’s secessionist regime in Katanga in order to promote Belgian mining interests.

chose instead as ambassador his old Republican rival from Massachusetts, Henry Cabot Lodge.

However, the Soviets had discovered the plot to kill the president and knew the CIA planned to implicate them.

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One of the most exhaustively researched books on President Kennedy’s assassination, Dick Russell’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, tells the story of a U.S. counterintelligence agent hired by the Soviets to kill Lee Harvey Oswald and thereby prevent JFK’s assassination. The double agent’s reluctance to become either Oswald’s assassin for the KGB, or a part of JFK’s assassination for the CIA, moved him to a desperate act.

Looks like you'll have to read this. I already highly doubt this: why wouldn't they just warn Kennedy?

After Nagell was arrested in El Paso, Oswald was redirected to Dallas. In late October, Oswald wrote from Dallas to Arnold Johnson, information director of the Communist Party in New York City: “In September I had written you saying I expected to move from New Orleans, La., to the Philadelphia-Baltimore area . . . Since then my personal plans have changed and I have settled in Dallas, Texas for the time.”[120]

This kind of crap is why I don't trust this writer.

disconnected Oswald from a federal alarm system that was about to identify him as a threat to national security. The FBI man’s name was Marvin Gheesling. He was a supervisor in the Soviet espionage section at FBI headquarters.[17] His timing was remarkable. As author John Newman remarked in an analysis of this phenomenon, Gheesling “turned off the alarm switch on Oswald literally an instant before it would have gone off.”[18]

Why, if Oswald was on the payroll of both the FBI and the CIA, would he be considered a security threat?

General David M. Shoup, commander of the Marines and the member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Lodge sent a letter to Secretary of State Dean Rusk asking him to send longtime CIA operative Edward Lansdale to Saigon

Lucien Conein,

When Helms allied the CIA to the State Department circle pressuring Kennedy for a coup, he told Harriman, “It’s about time we bit this bullet.”