The CIA and the Assassination of John Kennedy, Part 1
by Jacob G. Hornberge
One of the strangest aspects of the investigation into John Kennedy’s murder was the reaction of federal officials.
Whenever government officials are assassinated, the normal reaction of law enforcement is to pull out all the stops in an attempt to ensure that no one who was involved in the crime escapes punishment.
Yet the more one reads about the Kennedy assassination, the more one gets the uneasy feeling that the reaction of the FBI and other federal officials was precisely the opposite. They seem to have been overeager to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone assassin and overpassive in investigating the possible involvement of others in the killing.
For example, there were several witnesses who were certain that a shot had been fired from the grassy knoll. Whether such a shot was fired or not, one would naturally expect law-enforcement officials to aggressively pursue that possibility, given that a senior federal official had just been shot and killed. Yet, having settled on Oswald as a lone assassin who fired from behind the president, federal investigators not only did not aggressively pursue the possibility of shot’s having been fired from the front, they often actually belittled and berated witnesses who were certain that such a shot had been fired.
That makes no sense to me. That just isn’t the way law-enforcement officials operate when a federal official is killed.
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I hate to say this, but the CIA is getting a bad rap over the JFK assassination. I believe the most complete compilation of evidence is found in Parish of New Orleans records of the grand jury investigation led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison in 1967. The original findings are well summarized by William Torbitt (aka David Copeland) in the 1970 Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal and by other scholars. The evidence indicates clearly the Joint Chiefs of Staff was responsible for the decision to murder Kennedy - in other words the conspiracy involved the highest levels of his administration (just like the conspiracy to murder Lincoln). FBI Division 5 (under the personal direction of J EDgar Hoover) was responsible for organizing the operational details and called on specific CIA and military intelligence divisions to carry out specific tasks. What frustrates me is that all this information has been in the public domain for over 30 years (you can find it in most public libraries) - and yet in the public mind it simply doesn't exist. I write about this and other frustrations regarding US intelligence and the corporate media in my recent memoir THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT:MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN REFUGEE.
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