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E. Howard Hunt failed to convince the jury in the libel case Mark Lane defended of the former's whereabouts on November 22, 1963.
In Bond of Secrecy by son Saint John Hunt, the career CIA officer names David Atlee Phllips and David Morales, both CIA officers, as complicit.
Mark Lane, Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK is clear that Oswald was not in Mexico City. The elaborate deceit of his meeting Kostikov the Soviet KGB officer in charge of assassinations was the work of CIA officers. Hoover knew the voice tape was not Oswald's voice as seven of his FBI agents listened to the tape, though Phillips lied to Lane that the tape had been previously destroyed.
If it's a simple one-shooter case-closed, why fifty years of claiming national security to hide the truth.
Phillips admitted to his brother he'd been in Dallas that day.
In Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation Antonio Veciana the most violent of the Cubans run by Phillips saw the CIA officer in Dallas with Oswald that summer. QED Oswald was not a lone anything, was in fact run by the most important CIA officer in the Western Hemisphere at the time.
Oswald had no GSR on his cheek per the Dallas police paraffin test confirmed by the Atomic Energy Commission's Oak Ridge Laboratory--while seven test shooters of the alleged weapon tested POSITIVE.
Oswald did not shoot Tippit: Clemmons is credible; Markham is not.
Oswald did not fire on Walker: only Marina's post-mortem rehearsed tale supports this; Walker complained the bullet was switched, was not the Mannlicher-Carcano but a 30-06.
James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Mattered: Kennedy was going to limit the CIA as Truman wrote in the Washington Post December 1964: "Limit CIA to Intelligence"--Kennedy enacted Executive Orders 55, 56, and 57 so limiting.
His test ban and peace speech June 10, 1963 at American University, his resistance to force in the Missile Crisis, and more made him a "traitor" in the eyes of men such as Secret Service officer Elmer Moore who used the term.
I opposed him politically as a YAFer for Goldwater, but the Air Force general would've taken out Haiphong harbor, which LBJ would not do when requested by the Chiefs November 1965:
The Day It Became The Longest War
National Security Action Memorandum 263 was to withdraw the 16,000 U.S. advisors from Vietnam to be complete by 1965, but NSAM 273 was signed by LBJ Tuesday November 26, 1963 with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution the following year.
Johnson begged off March 1968, to clear the track for Nixon, the month before King was felled with RFK to follow.
Nixon of course was forced to resign due to the sabotage of the Whitewater operation which was stsffed by agents sent by Helms for the purpose: McCord, Hunt, Sturgis, et al.
Hoover's heart attack 1972, LBJ's heart attack 1973, Nixon's resignation 1974 so that stooge Ford could make Rockefeller veep and Bush DCI to set up the HSCA to protect CIA, though Blakey & Co. indicated probable conspiracy with organized crime as the likely perpetrator.

*** McCord, Hunt, Sturgis, et al. ***

BINGO!
Hunt and Sturgis definitely involved. (Don't know about McCord but possible)

Hunt was in Dallas, he was one of the 'Hobos' on the RR Tracks. Sturgis ran scoped rifles from Miami to Dallas a couple days prior to Jack getting whacked. Met up with Hunt in a Dallas Motel to transfer the weapons. A 3rd man was there too (maybe McCord??)

It's all part of open testimony in a Federal Court trial by a CIA 'operative' (not Agent) at the time who would know dam sure - 'above reproach'.

Then, 'a few' years later Hunt's wife dies in a plane crash in Chicago - going into Midway Airport on the SW side. In her purse was $10K in Cash in brand new bills (prolly a payoff to the Chicago Outfit).

Thanks PhilDragoo.

...Blakey & Co. indicated probable conspiracy with organized crime as the likely perpetrator.

That conclusion is correct. Carlos Marcello had been arrested and deported under his bogus Costa Rican passport/identity, and nearly died getting back from that jungle airstrip where Kennedy's people dumped him off down there. That event more than any other led to the assassinations of both Kennedy brothers.

Lane's stuff is just nuts, but he is good for some laughs. The CIA had been paying the mob to 'hit' Castro, but the mob realized early on that they'd never have the Cuban casinos back. They kept taking the money for work not performed, even after JFK and RFK ordered the efforts to assassinate Castro to stop. That was the means by which the mob was able to blackmail the CIA into silence.

When those photos of the actual assassin was shown to Helms, he knew who it was, but answered that he'd never seen the man before. The photos were taken outside the Soviet embassy in Mexico City; Oswald had been sent to Mexico City, told that he was there to cool off, so no one would think he was still in Dallas. The real reason was so the real assassin could tail him to get used to his movements, way he looked from different angles, way he walked, etc, so that he could identify him at a distance with certainty.

The first plan to eliminate Oswald was for the assassin to kill him at the scene after the police started firing at him after JFK was shot -- dead president, dead assassin, case closed. Instead, the echoes from the assassin's own gun (and maybe Oswald's as well) caused the cops to run up the infamous grassy knoll, thinking that the shots came from there. Oswald stood in the window as he'd been ordered to, but the assassin couldn't open fire. He waited as long as he felt he dared, then disassembled his rifle, taped the parts to his leg, put his pants back on, and with a pronounced limp left the County Records building and then the country.

The police never saw Oswald or figured out the diirection of his shots because of the architecture of Dealey Plaza. They went right up to that Grassy Knoll fence and around it, and found no smell, casings, or suspects behind it, because there never had been any.

The second plan for Oswald's demise never came off, and is only theoretical, but would have taken the form of someone who was waiting for his exit from the Book Depository, to follow him and kill him quietly somewhere; it's possible that the second plan didn't exist, or that it was supposed to happen that way but the operative didn't show up, or got spooked and took off, or that Oswald 'made' him and gave him the slip, or that the operative just never got the opportunity before Oswald's arrest. It wasn't as clean as the Dealey plan, but someone really wanted him dead.

Both Oswald and Ferrie worked for Carlos Marcello's mob lawyer, Ferrie was in court in St Louis the day of the assassination. Jack Ruby was another mobster, what a weird coincidence, he'd been run out of Chicago (I think it was), and was given the assignment to kill Oswald after the first two plans failed. For that matter, Johnny Roselli was scheduled to appear before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, didn't show up, and some days later what used to be Johnny Roselli was found inside an oil drum floating off Tampa (I think it was).