COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
JFK files: Lee Harvey
had 'no links' with CIA newly released documents reveal
Spy agency files say a
thorough search had been conducted of records inside and outside the US
I’m not aware of any highly-rated researcher who ever
regarded Oswald as having been CIA. It’s kind of red herring logical fallacy to
say that he was not.
But, while never working directly for CIA, Oswald was unquestionably
part of a flaky fake-defector program in the 1950s, a program associated with
CIA.
He was recruited while in the Marines and taught Russian in
one of the military or security service high-intensity language schools.
We know he spoke Russian before his phony defection.
James Angleton, a very senior CIA official as its Chief of
Counterintelligence, created and ran that program.
The revealing fact is in the way in which Oswald came back
to the US with no charges, with secret help, and a Russian-speaking wife. McCarthyite
fury was at its height in those days, but it somehow didn’t touch Oswald.
Later, however, there is no question he worked as a paid FBI
informant. His informant FBI number and an uncashed FBI voucher for $200 were
discovered. But that obviously crucial matter was dropped when old J. Edgar
Hoover assured the Warren Commission that Oswald had not been an informant.
There is a great deal of evidence of CIA obstruction and
disinformation through the whole case. And now they are still at it. Why would
that be?
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Response to another comment
about the CIA’s Mexico City telephone intercept tapes having been “routinely erased”:
CIA also released a supposed surveillance photo to the
investigation.
It was of a complete stranger, looking nothing like Oswald, and
that fact was never explained.
The embassy was under 24-hour-a-day photo coverage and
telephone intercepts by CIA. If Oswald or anyone went there, CIA would have
proof.
Few things scream CIA hiding stuff more loudly than Mexico
City events.
We have no actual proof Oswald even being in Mexico City.
Yes, for sure, someone who resembled him and claimed to be
him was there.
But we also know someone who resembled him also pulled a
number of showy stunts in Dallas before the assassination, including taking a
car for a test spin with a salesman and talking bizarrely to leave a lasting
impression. But the fact is that Oswald couldn't drive.
Assassins don't call attention to themselves this way either.
It's laughable.
What the Mexico City events represented was an effort to
associate Oswald with Castro and Russia before the assassination. A kind of
sheep-dipping.
The real assassins wanted to "kill two birds with one
stone," to eliminate the despised Kennedy and to have Cuba in some way be
blamed so that it could again be invaded, and despite Kennedy's Cuban Missile
Crisis promise to Khrushchev not to invade.
And whom do we know who desperately wanted to invade Cuba?
You guessed right if you guessed the CIA.
Motive writ large.
Kennedy was killed for a series of reasons, all of them
relating directly to CIA concerns, especially concerns about Cuba.
First, the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion by
CIA-trained and supplied Cuban refugees when Kennedy was first in office. CIA
blamed Kennedy for refusing the air support for the invasion. They had asked
him for it when they explained what they had planned during the last administration,
but he refused, not wanting Americans directly involved.
Second, Kennedy’s embarrassment over the failed invasion was
acute and it caused him to fire three top officials, including Director Dulles.
This did not go down well with the CIA loyalists. Dulles had the status of a
demigod or Mafia godfather in those days. Kennedy’s people believed the
invasion failed because it was so badly planned, not taking account of the intense
loyalties to Castro in Cuba. The evidence does point in that direction, but big
shots do not like being told such things. Resentments were positively feudal.
Third, when Kennedy made an agreement with Premier Khrushchev
to end the Cuban Missile Crisis, he gave Khrushchev his pledge not to invade
Cuba again. This infuriated CIA loyalists. During the crisis, Kennedy also
established backchannel communications with Khrushchev, again something that
would not be well received by CIA. And, still, in the early stages, Kennedy
refused advice that the crisis be used as an excuse for an immediate invasion.
And a good thing, too, since CIA was ignorant of the fact that Soviet troops
working on the missiles in Cuba had some operational short-range tactical Luna
nuclear missiles to protect themselves against invasion.
Fourth, and perhaps just the straw that broke the camel’s
back, was Kennedy’s affair with Mary Pinchot, a beautiful and connected
Washington establishment figure who was a free-spirit type and whose former
husband was a very senior CIA official, Cord Meyer. As his wife, she had made
her hostility to CIA operations well known in the circles who went to cocktail
parties together.
