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

by James W. Douglass

Committee later discovered.[50] Among the notes for ZR/RIFLE that Harvey then scribbled to himself were: “planning should include provisions for blaming Sovs or Czechs in case of blow. Should have phony 201 [a CIA file on any person “of active operational interest”][51] in RG [Central Registry] to backstop this, all documents therein forged and backdated.”[52] In other words, in order to blame an assassination on the Communists, the patsy should be given Soviet or Czechoslovakian associations. (Oswald’s would be Soviet and Cuban.) An appropriately fraudulent CIA 201 personnel file should be created for any future assassination scapegoat, with “all documents therein forged and updated.” Harvey also reminded himself that the phony 201 “should look like a CE