THE JFK FILES RELEASE: CIA DOUBTED LONE GUNMAN THEORY
Well, chalk this one up to one of my gigantic "misses", for I was one of those that thought there would not be much of any significance in the declassification of the John F. Kennedy assassination files. In my defense for this egregious blunder, I can only say that I was drawing on a bit of experience with the U.K.'s supposed declassification of the Hess files (and we all know how the British government is the very definition of probity and straight-talking over the centuries), and experience with an American goobernment seeking to outdo its mother country in all manner of frauds, corruptions, malfeasance and byzantine behavior, and as such that does nothing but lie in a variety of creative, diverse, and labyrinthian ways. Thus - so my thinking ran - since 1963 they've had lots of time to redact, re-write, "mis-file" and simply shred anything they didn't like.
But I'll grant that in such an environment of Venetian-sized swampy
corruption, incompetence also becomes a factor in the political calculus
such that, try as they might to slither away, sometimes, in shedding
the scales of their old skins, the old skin itself hangs around to
remind us that "here there be vipers and serpents." And that seems to be
the case with at least one significant thing that has emerged from this
JFK documents release, namely, the Clowns In America had difficulty
swallowing the "lone nut gunman" theory that John Wilkes Booth Lee Harvey Oswald managed to enter the unguarded presidential box at the theater slip through the president's security screen and shoot the president with a derringer with a 7.62 German Mauser rifle 6.5 Italian Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with a misaligned telescopic site before getting away on horseback into the Maryland countryside to the Texas theater only to be misidentified by numerous witnesses shot by Mafioso bagman Jack Ruby. At least we can rest securely in the knowledge that the assassination of President Lincoln
President Kennedy was a one-off bearing no resemblance to any other
such act because they are all the acts of lone nuts and not
conspiracies, right?
Not so according to the recent documents release, which demonstrate that at least some in the Clowns In America - probably not the ones involved in helping plan and ...uhm....er.... execute the deed - were not buying the "lone nut gunman" explanation according to this article spotted and shared by V.T.:
But note what the memo says:
A newly declassified CIA document, known as the “Donald Heath Memo,” confirms that the CIA, in the immediate aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, rejected the notion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
The 11-page document, authored by Donald Heath—a CIA officer assigned to the Miami Station during the early 1960s—details the agency’s intense investigative efforts following Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963.
The memo details how the CIA’s Miami Station was mobilized in the hours and days following the assassination to investigate possible links between the Cuban government, Cuban exiles, and the Kennedy killing.
Far from accepting the Warren Commission’s narrative of a lone shooter, the memo shows the agency actively probing a broader conspiracy.
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