Posted on 10/27/2017 10:23:22 AM PDT by TigerClaws
The CIA mulled mafia hits on Cuban President Fidel Castro. Someone called the FBI threatening to kill Lee Harvey Oswald a day before Oswald’s murder. And the US examined sabotaging airplane parts heading to Cuba.
These assertions are some of many unearthed in newly revealed government documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Following a deadline 25 years in the making, the National Archives on Thursday evening released a horde of JFK files. President Donald Trump blocked the release of some documents at least temporarily, citing national security concerns, leaving researchers, conspiracy theorists and interested onlookers 52 previously unreleased full documents and thousands in part to sift through.
Here are some of the highlights from the trove so far:
Sabotaging plane parts A national security council document from 1962 — before Kennedy’s murder — referenced “Operation Mongoose,” a covert attempt to topple communism in Cuba.
In the minutes of a secret meeting on Operation Mongoose from September 14,1962, “General (Marshall) Carter said that the CIA would examine the possibilities of sabotaging airplane parts which are scheduled to be shipped from Canada to Cuba.”
CIA-mafia plot on Castro A 1975 document from the Rockefeller Commission detailing the CIA’s role in foreign assassinations said plans to assassinate Castro were undertaken in the early days of the Kennedy administration.
The report said Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the President’s brother, told the FBI he learned the CIA hired an intermediary “to approach Sam Giancana with a proposition of paying $150,000 to hire some gunman to go into Cuba and kill Castro.”
The attorney general said that made it hard to prosecute Giancana, a Sicilian American mobster.
“Attorney General Kennedy stated that the CIA should never undertake the use of mafia people again without first checking with the Department of Justice because it would be difficult to prosecute such people in the future,” the report reads.
The report also said the CIA was later interested in using mobsters to deliver a poison pill to Castro in order to kill him.
During Operation Mongoose in 1960, the CIA also considered staging terror events in Miami and blaming it on pro-Castro Cubans.
“We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington. We could sink a boatload of Cubans enroute to Florida (real or simulated). We could foster attempts on lives of Cuban refugees in the United States even to the extent of wounding in instances to be widely publicized. Exploding a few plastic bombs in carefully chosen spots, the arrest of a Cuban agent and the release of prepared documents substantiating Cuban involvement also would be helpful in projecting the idea of an irresponsible government.”
The FBI got a death threat on Oswald the day before his murder A document dated November 24, 1963, showed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover addressing the death of Oswald at the hands of Jack Ruby.
“There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead,” Hoover begins.
Hoover said the FBI’s Dallas office received a call “from a man talking in a calm voice,” saying he was a member of a committee to kill Oswald.
He said they pressed the Dallas chief of police to protect Oswald, but Ruby was nevertheless able to kill the gunman.
“Ruby says no one was associated with him and denies having made the telephone call to our Dallas office last night,” Hoover said.
Hoover went on to say the FBI had evidence of Oswald’s guilt and intercepts of Oswald’s communications with Cuba and the Soviet Union. He said he was concerned there would be doubt in the public about Oswald’s guilt and that President Lyndon Johnson would appoint a commission to investigate the assassination.
It’s an idiom. Others use words like “making mischief” or “creating havoc” or...
‘’The proposed rabble rousing in Miami was new to me.’’
You might google Operation Northwoods. These guys were/are evil.
That it is confirmed that the CIA was willing to bomb sites inside American borders, before I was even born, means two things:
1) Everything is up for grabs. No event is beyond suspicion.
2) I was born into a deeply corrupted, unfree country.
Really? Even considering such a thing should be grounds for dissolving the CIA.
And this was in 1960. Now the CIA is even further populated with amoral leftists, statists and power-mad string-pullers.
.... After the revelation over the past year that the Russian Intelligence community is constantly active spreading disinformation and propaganda with the intention of stirring up and dividing the American public ..... I am left wondering how much of this stuff is actually just such a thing.
We need to get rid of the CIA.
We have more to worry about from Fedzilla than we do the Russians.
President Trump, More Please!
That picture gets me every time...
Obviously Paddock wasn’t Cuban. We’ll never know his real story.
Welcome the Realville Laz.
The only reason we have not perceived that we are just as corrupt as any other tyranny is because the PTB realized they could share the wealth and people would be a lot more malleable.
Exactly! Because the RUSSIANS were able to get the CIA to directly admit they were considering bombing inside US borders... IN REDACTED AND SECRET JFK ASSASSINATION DOCUMENTATION FILES!
*PERFECTLY* reasonable!!!!
It can never be proved anyone in our government knew Oklahoma City was going to happen and did nothing.
That photo is so f*cking cool that I have it tacked to the wall in my cube.
... well, I also give them credit for allowing us to speak freely and completely ineffectually.
Did you think that out?
Interesting.
“The deep state false flag agenda is exposed. Now we know why this information has been buried.”
Alex Jones has been talking about this since the mid 90s. But everyone thought he was a conspiracy theorist. My oh my how times have changed.
CIA plotted to kill Castro! OK, who hasn’t known that for several decades?
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