Declassified CIA report concluded director led 'cover up' of Kennedy assassination investigation

Fox News ^ | October 10, 2015 | Fox News

[GOPJ]

The CIA lied? I’m shocked... shocked...

[SunkenCiv]

That's what ya want in a covert agency. :') The CIA's only involvement is quite peripheral -- the K brothers had ordered the end of the assassination attempts on Castro (and frankly, the failure to kill that a-hole was and remains an embarrassment to the CIA), but someone didn't get the memo, and continued to pay the Mob (which had lost all those brothels and casinos in Cuba) to do it. The Mob couldn't pull it off, or didn't care to (perhaps thinking the situation would eventually get back to business as usual) but kept taking the money. When the Mob killed JFK, the CIA wanted their silence on the continued bankrolling of the Castro hit.

[diogenes ghost]

You pompous ass....

You post insane crap like "his Lemo driver shot him"....WTF is a Lemo driver?

And how many "Lemo drivers" are armed with a rifle? I might buy Secret Service drinking and driving, but not shooting and driving.

You consistently call anyone disagreeing with you a 'troll', or call them some other childish name. I am quite amazed that you have avoided being banned, as much as I dislike that action. I could make an exception for you.

[Despot of the Delta]

I still think the answer lies with Operation 40 and Mongoose.

[editor-surveyor]

Cool your vile mouth!

It was a handgun that made the kill, not a rifle.

Just watch the Zapruder film.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[CivilWarBrewing]

There is a theory that the driver shot him but I find the SS agent AR-15 accidental discharge highly plausible.

[100American]

I hear you, he was carrying it as normal and did not have the safety on. When he moved the gun it went off hitting Kennedy from the rear...

This is where I compare ballistics to the bodies reaction, the first shot has Kennedy cluching his throat and Jackie looking over as if whats wrong..

He is totally still and then the back of his head is blown off and a large chunk lands on the trunk which Jackie retrieves as the car speeds off ...

May not be exact but there are still pieces missing

I thought the velocity and mass combined the impact to go inward and through, and not cause a back blow like Zapruders film shows

To any/all with more trigger time than I have you seen this reaction when downing say a dear or other game??

Thanks in advance...

[1Old Pro]

The whole world saw what happened, and 52 years later, we still don’t know what happened.

I thought it was the classy troll in the nasty role up on the grassy knoll.

[100American]

Johnson was complicit for many reasons and he detested Kennedy for his lifestyle and much more...

Kennedy was considering scaling back Vietnam and that hits Texas Military Aircraft industry in the gut...

General Dynamics

Remember Eisenhower here about the Military-Industrial Complex...

Like designed tapestry...

Almost immediately Johnson ordered escalation of our presence in Nam...

And the rest is history, and we have still got the MIC in place and driving much of the economy

[dfwgator]

Liberals can’t handle the fact that a Commie did it.

[thestob]

this is one frame, progressively enlarged, from the Bronson film of the assassination it is accepted by every JFK researcher, the Warren Comission, the HSCA, etc. to correspond with frame 313 from the Zapruder film (the zapruder headshot frame) ...now notice two things, the yellow arrow points to SS Agent Hickey, not holding an AR, not firing an AR, not falling, etc....also notice Charles Brehm the man in the light tan jacket ..he is perhaps 6 feet away from SS Agent Hickey when he supposedly fired his AR .... now here is a video of Brehm being interviewed just a few minutes after the assassination, no mention of an AR going off right in front of face (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Vk3WY1GBA)...also, SS Agent Hickey would have had to part the hair of Kenny O'donnel and Dave Powers with his AR-15 as they were sitting inches in front of him ..remarkably the president's two closest advisors and friends (Powers and O'Donnel) didn't notice a rifle being fired in the car inches above their heads, ...it's just a ridiculous theory that was debunked in 1992 when the publishers of the book saw the Bronson film and it basically went away for so long that it was forgotten until some Australian hack detective trotted it back out in 2013 for some special on the "Reels" television channel

[100American]

Thank you, this is the kind of information and dialog I value

God Bless

[21twelve]

I’m reminded of Nixon’s famous 7 minute gap in the tapes. Right before that he is talking about the botched break-in. Saying it’s no big deal, except for the “Cuban thing”. Then the tapes go dead.

Some of the guys on the break-in were Cubans that had been trained by the CIA for the Bay of Pigs assault, which JFK failed to support with fire-power at the last minute, leaving the invasion men on their own. Some speculate a group of them, perhaps with CIA knowledge, killed JFK.

That - or it was the nutcase Oswald.

The CIA may have covered up other stuff.

“Hey Frank - I got some letter from a guy name Ozzie or something - said he’s going to kill the president.”

“Ha - that’s funny - that guy from Ozzie and Harriet! Yeah - put it on my desk and I’ll get around to it.”

[freepertoo]

Yes, I know that.

[Crucial]

I don’t know if the CIA specifically targeted Kennedy but it at least looks like it very well be responsible for his death. The article leaves out that this information included accounts of Oswald fraternizing with CIA operatives.

[21twelve]

Talking about Love Field or at the Plaza I had to look at the films. No guys riding on the back of the car at Dealey Plaza. But perhaps that was because they would be entering the freeway shortly.

It is interesting to see the lack of response from any bystanders to the first shot, and only one person diving to the ground at the kill shot.

On the “Nix” video (after the neck shot), the only person that seems to respond is the SS guy that runs and jumps up into the car. Even the motorcycle cops are not keeping pace with the limo.

[WhiskeyX]

The authenticity of the document looks suspicious insofar as its typographic elements do not appear to be orthogonal to each other as you would expect a professional typeset piece of stationary to appear. The block of typeset lettering, “UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT [carriage return] Memorandum [italicized] appears to be tilted downwards by several points towards the right end of the lines versus the overall page and with respect to the typeset TO, FROM, SUBJECT and DATE fields. Those fields appear to line up with the borders of the page, while the typeset block above them does not. To make a provisional acceptance of the stationary as being authentic, I would want to see additional examples of this same stationary with the same block of typeset characters being skewed or titled by the exact same amount of points with respect to the page, the other typeset text, and the typewriter text. The typewriter text appears to be a PICA type.

[thestob]

in some of the films of the motorcade, before it gets to Dealey Plaza, you can see Clint Hill riding on the back of the limousine, Clint Hill was Jackie's agent not JFK's....he says, in his book, that he would rode on the back of the limousine when the crowds were heavy because they kept the side of the limo where Jackie was seated closer to the curb and crowds to keep some distance between the crowds on the opposite street and JFK ....never really thought of that until he said it, you can see it in this picture.... I've always thought the lack of people of jumping or flinching when the shots were fired was odd also ....the warren commision used the little girl in the red dress stopping instantly from the zapruder film as a timing device for the first shot ....which I'm not convinced is really accurate, but who knows