John Chuckman
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JFK files: As Donald
Trump looks to release classified documents, last living link to assassination
drops bombshell
Antonio Veciana, 88,
has authored a memoir that promises to shed light on one of the greatest
mysteries of our time
This is one of the best summary articles to appear in any
newspaper on the subject of the assassination.
I have a life-long interest in the assassination, have read most
of the important literature on it, have written published essays on the
subject, and have always been a skeptic on the Warren Report.
Indeed, “skeptic” is too tame a word. I have always treated
the Warren Report as a shameful compilation of lies since its publication.
One of the greatest minds of the 20th century, Bertrand
Russell, after reading an advanced copy of the report back in the 1960s, said:
“If, as we are told,
Oswald was the lone assassin, where is the issue of national security?”
That profound question has never been answered.
Readers may enjoy;
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Response to another
reader who said: “The key to what happened centres on Kennedy’s sacking of John
Foster Dulles in November 1962”
Yes, that and one or two other important events, but I think you mean his brother, Allen Dulles, Director of CIA.
The outcome of the Cuban Missile crisis, including Kennedy's
backchannel communication with Khrushchev, was another.
Kennedy opposed both Pentagon and CIA advice during the
Crisis, and thank God that he did. They would have launched WWIII by landing
troops to destroy the Soviet installations.
The CIA and Pentagon were ignorant of the fact that the
Soviets had many thousands of troops in Cuba working on and guarding their medium-range
missile installations.
The Soviet troops were equipped with a number of short-range
Luna nuclear-armed missiles ready to be fired at any landing force.
I think perhaps the final spur for the assassins, if any
were needed, was Kennedy's romantic affair with Mary Pinchot (Meyer), a
well-connected society type who had a project for world peace. She introduced
Kennedy to marijuana in the White House and may well have introduced him to
LSD.
She had a bit of a hare-brained scheme for getting eight
high Washington society women to turn on their husbands to LSD and somehow
manipulate them for world peace. The list of names does not come down to us,
but they were all wives of major figures in Washington.
One can just imagine the mandarins at Langley listening to
recordings of the Kennedy-Pinchot pillow-talk in 1963. And with Kennedy's
proved independent-mind set, I think they decided he was a danger to their idea
of the United States.
Mary was assassinated less than a year after Kennedy, and
her diary was stolen. She had got up a head of steam concerning what may have
really happened to Kennedy while working on her own investigation, and being so
well-connected, her investigation might well have been fruitful. After all, her
ex-husband, Cord Meyer, was a high-ranking CIA operator.
She was completely aware of the things the CIA did and knew well
many people like James Angleton and the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee, almost
certainly a covert CIA man.
By the way, many well-informed people believe Angleton
himself ran the program of fake American defectors to the Soviet Union in the
late-1950s, the one for which Oswald was recruited as a young Marine. Here was
a young Marine in the late-1950s suddenly receiving communist literature in the
mail at his base and who somehow mysteriously learned to speak Russian.
He was obviously being “sheep-dipped” for his “defection” to
the Soviet Union. He then went to live in the Soviet Union for a couple of
years, coming back to the United States with a Soviet bride, both of them
admitted with relatively little trouble considering the harsh political climate
then. They ended-up living among, and being assisted by, a community of
Russian-speakers in Dallas, a truly remarkable connection.
The defection program was just the kind of goofy, elaborate
scheme that that dangerous man, Angleton, was fond of. Years later, he was
dismissed from the CIA, having caused a great many serious internal problems.
But he was still regarded as a demi-god in intelligence
circles in the early 1960s, and his name comes up several times in key events
around the assassination, especially for some years afterward. He was involved
in retrieving secret files from Mexico City after the assassination, he was
involved in events around Mary Pinchot’s murder, and he became embroiled in the
infamous Nosenko affair at CIA during the 1970s, an affair with some
connections to the assassination.
Having been part of the (secret) defector program and having
returned to the US made Oswald a perfect candidate for patsy, being vulnerable
to being described as a far-out communist, something he most certainly was not.
We know Oswald was working as a paid FBI informant at the time (his informant
number actually was discovered long ago), and he must have stumbled across the
plotters in New Orleans who, in turn, saw his potential as a patsy.
The Kennedys were leaning hard in those last days on all the
CIA-established Cuban refugee terror camps in an effort to improve
American-Russian and American-Cuban relations. The CIA operations had been huge
and made anything Osama bin-Laden later had in the mountains of Afghanistan
look like scout camps. And, of course, the Kennedys well knew that the CIA
often ignored or misinterpreted presidential directives with which its
management disagreed, as they still do today. So, the FBI, undoubtedly against
J Edgar Hoover's personal wishes, was ordered to become involved in discovering
and breaking-up facilities. Oswald was just one of their informants. He
obviously hit the jackpot and paid with his life.
