Yes, the CIA Director Was Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up

[Mika]

Yes, the CIA Director Was Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up
John McCone was long suspected of withholding information from the Warren Commission. Now even the CIA says he did.

John McCone came to the CIA as an outsider. An industrialist and an engineer by training, he replaced veteran spymaster Allen Dulles as director of central intelligence in November 1961, after John F. Kennedy had forced out Dulles following the CIA’s bungled operation to oust Fidel Castro by invading Cuba’s Bay of Pigs. McCone had one overriding mission: restore order at the besieged CIA. Kennedy hoped his management skills might prevent a future debacle, even if the Californian—mostly a stranger to the clubby, blue-blooded world of the men like Dulles who had always run the spy agency—faced a steep learning curve.

After JFK’s assassination in Dallas in November 1963, President Lyndon Johnson kept McCone in place at the CIA, and the CIA director became an important witness before the Warren Commission, the panel Johnson created to investigate Kennedy’s murder. McCone pledged full cooperation with the commission, which was led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, and testified that the CIA had no evidence to suggest that Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin, was part of any conspiracy, foreign or domestic. In its final report, the commission came to agree with McCone’s depiction of Oswald, a former Marine and self-proclaimed Marxist, as a delusional lone wolf.
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But did McCone come close to perjury all those decades ago? Did the onetime Washington outsider in fact hide agency secrets that might still rewrite the history of the assassination? Even the CIA is now willing to raise these questions. Half a century after JFK’s death, in a once-secret report written in 2013 by the CIA’s top in-house historian and quietly declassified last fall, the spy agency acknowledges what others were convinced of long ago: that McCone and other senior CIA officials were “complicit” in keeping “incendiary” information from the Warren Commission.

According to the report by CIA historian David Robarge, McCone, who died in 1991, was at the heart of a “benign cover-up” at the spy agency, intended to keep the commission focused on “what the Agency believed at the time was the ‘best truth’—that Lee Harvey Oswald, for as yet undetermined motives, had acted alone in killing John Kennedy.” The most important information that McCone withheld from the commission in its 1964 investigation, the report found, was the existence, for years, of CIA plots to assassinate Castro, some of which put the CIA in cahoots with the Mafia. Without this information, the commission never even knew to ask the question of whether Oswald had accomplices in Cuba or elsewhere who wanted Kennedy dead in retaliation for the Castro plots.

Link to Politico story --> here.

[fasttense]

1. the FBI also looked the other way as organized crime took down some of our most beloved leaders

Because J. Edgar Hoover was being blackmailed by them. Organized crime was responsible for the murder of JFK, MLK and Bobby. All the while our FBI did absolutely nothing about the murders. J. Edgar was scared to death that organized crime leaders would reveal his cross dressing secret. I would feel sorry for J. Edgar except that his efforts to keep his sex life secret ended in so much misery for others and this country.

[Todays_Illusion]

2. Mostly bs history re-writing, Notice they are blaming an apointee of the Democratic President.

According to all conservatives everything bad was caused by the Democratic.

Here is something more visible. Jimmy Carter fired GHWBush then director of CIA and around 600 other CIA people/agents. When he became President and was punished and abused by the then press, now media, for the next thirty years.

[bemildred]

5. They are not invulnerable, the spooks.

Any more than the Mafia is. That doesn't mean they are not crooks.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Very kind of you to post this, Mika. Thank you.

[Peace Patriot]

4. The coverup continues.

And, frankly, I think this book (on which the article is based), by New York Slimes* reporter Philip Shenon, is part of the coverup.

Highly recommended: "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters," by James Douglass, first published in 2007. Douglass solves this crime. The CIA itself was the perp. He nails them all the way up to CIA operations director Richard Helms. Nails them definitively, finally and forever. There is no question in my mind about it any more. Dulles was probably the mastermind but the evidence against him has been erased, and Douglass sticks to the evidence. An absolutely brilliant researcher, writer and thinker.

What Philip Shenon has written (the article at Politico, and his book) is a...

Limited Hangout:

A limited hangout or partial hangout is, according to Victor Marchetti, former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, "spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further."[1][2]

...or a...

Modified limited hangout:

In a March 22, 1973 meeting between Richard Nixon, John Dean, John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell, and H.R. Haldeman, Ehrlichman incorporated the term into a new and related one, "modified limited hangout."[3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout

A quick summary of what Douglass wrote in "JFK and the Unspeakable"--after his absolutely brilliant assemblage of all the murder case evidence--is that the CIA assassinated JFK because they thought he was a traitor for refusing to nuke Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The CIA and the Joint Chiefs thought they had missile superiority at that point, and wanted to demolish Russia while they could. They were also incensed by JFK opening a backchannel to Russian Premier Krushchev (trying to get around CIA surveillance), in order to prevent nuclear war and begin nuclear disarmament. The dustup over the prior Bay of Pigs fiasco--which prompted JFK to fire CIA Director Dulles--set the context. But it was JFK's mindboggling fight with the CIA and the Joint Chiefs--in which only AG Bobby Kennedy stood with JFK--over nuking Russia, and JFK's follow-ups such as the "Nuclear Test Ban Treaty" (first treaty limiting nukes) and the Russian Wheat Deal (US saving millions of Russians from starvation after their wheat crop failure), plus his plans to run in 1964 on a world peace platform (he would have won, big) that prompted the CIA's elaborate plot to rid the world of a peace-minded U.S. president.

Douglass does NOT nail LBJ (the immediate beneficiary of JFK's death) as to the assassination, but does explain how and why LBJ was involved in the coverup. Primarily, what the CIA had done--for instance, in sending their asset, Lee Harvey Oswald, to Russia, before the assassination--was to set it up so that Russia would be blamed, with the intent to foster public pressure on LBJ to nuke Russia in retaliation. LBJ balked at that (to his credit) but understood the CIA's and the U.S. military's need for a war. And that is why LBJ stated, three days after the assassination, "Now they can have their war." (He was speaking of the CIA and Vietnam.) Meanwhile, the Russia connection had to be smothered. Thus, the coverup.

Read the real thing--James Douglass' book--not the "modified limited hangout"--Philip Shenon's article and book, which I believe are intended to deceive us.

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*(I don't call them the New York Slimes for nothing--and their role in the Iraq War was sufficient to put them on my shit list forever.)

[Ghost Dog]

7. Yes. Not Cuba. CIA with mafia

assistance.

[IDemo]

9. I'm just 100 pages in

There cannot be any serious doubt remaining about what transpired in our country. That it will very likely continue to be the biggest lie ever fed to Americans is maddening and horrifying.

[Peace Patriot]

6. Mika, thank you for posting this but I can't rec it...

...because I think it is packed with disinformation (as my comment indicates).

I'm glad you brought it to my attention, though. It tells me that James Douglass has done fatal damage to the coverup and Langley decided on "limited hangout" as the best tactic in response.

[Mika]

8. I'm glad you posted here. Thank you.

I agree w/your points on this.