Like you I've long suspected...so I’ve been reading reading reading. I base my belief that Chappaquidick was a CIA ambush on: context, a quote from the Nixon tapes, logic, and an important fact: war makes rich people richer.
Here’s the context, i.e., motive. Since it’s so long I put the “>” symbol by the Ted Kennedy stuff you asked about:
-1947 Truman forms the CIA to consolidate intelligence gathering/spy work. In 1948 and 49 the CIA’s charter is expanded to include "covert actions and exclude most oversight and accountability.
(Note: In the creation of the CIA, disposed Nazi operational agents were recruited as U.S. secret agents.)
-1947 the cold war with Russia/USSR starts. Communism becomes the bogey man.
-In the 1950s the CIA overthrows foreign governments (e.g., Guatemala, Iran), often assassinating the leader, often to supposedly prevent communism, often helping US business interests/profits. For example…
-1954 The CIA overthrew the elected Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz. They deemed Arbenz a dangerous communist after his government appropriated unused land owned by the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita Banana) in order to redistribute land to poor peasants. United Fruit was paid for their land but they thought it was too little.
CIA Director (and former attorney to Prescott Bush) Allen Dulles had a financial interest in United Fruit. Power “was assumed by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, who had at one time received military training at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Armas gave United Fruit its land back, banned banana workers unions, abolished the tax on interest and dividends to foreign investors, and jailed thousands. The CIA provided lists of alleged "communists", including union leaders, who were promptly executed. Castillo Arma's brutal crackdown touched off the civil war in 1960 which dragged on for 36 years and killed over one hundred thousand (100,000) people --in a country with a current population of only 13 million.”
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=962298-1959 The US gets involved in Vietnam to prevent the spread of communism, though the CIA was already involved covertly. The Vietnam war eventually made rich people (like the *Texas* firms of Brown and Root, and Bell Helicopter) much richer.
-1961 President Eisenhower leaves office warning the public (and his successor) of the dangers of the "military industrial complex"/war business in a speech. ("We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions…we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.”)
Since Eisenhower gave briefings to President Elect Kennedy, it’s logical to assume he mentioned his concerns about the CIA running foreign policy. Especially since he was seriously embarrassed in 1960 when the Russians shot down a U-2 military spy plane the CIA talked him into sending. But planning for the CIA invasion of Cuba very far along at this point.
(Note: Nazi profiteer Prescott Bush, George W. Bush’s grandfather was a close associate of Eisenhower and a powerful force in the formation of the CIA. Also note: Nixon was Eisenhower’s Vice President, and was sponsored in politics by Prescott Bush.)
-1961 JFK becomes president (after beating Prescott Bush’s boy Richard Nixon). He’s told that the CIA is planning a covert takeover of communist (Russian sponsored) Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and assured that overt military operations won’t be needed. He grudgingly goes along. The April 17 Bay of Pigs is a disaster and JFK refuses to send military aircraft to help the CIA. Also as a result of the failure, CIA director Allen Dulles, deputy CIA director Charles Cabell, and Deputy Director of Operations Richard Bissell were all forced to resign. The CIA and exiled Cuban dissidents hate JFK from this point on.
Long after President Kennedy had ordered a halt to the covert campaign against Castro, senior CIA staffers approved plans to kill Castro, without seeking presidential authorization. They also continued other covert operations against Cuba in violation of the President's instructions.
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs as a direct result of the CIA’s Bay of Pigs invasion.
-1963 JFK announces plans to bring 1000 troops home from Vietnam immediately, and *all US personnel* (so stated to include soldiers *and* CIA agents) home by 1965. He pursues peace with Russia by signing the nuclear test ban treaty, promising not to invade Cuba (actually negotiated during the Missile Crisis), and gives a major speech at American University making it clear he wants to end the cold war. He starts printing US currency instead of Federal Reserve currency (to prevent us from paying interest on our own money). He plans to reduce or eliminate the oil depletion allowance that is a major factor in making Texas oil moguls so rich.
He also makes it very clear that he thinks the CIA are out of control and wants them eliminated.
The New York Times, October 3, 1963, published an article "The Intra-Administration War in Vietnam" by Arthur Krock which quoted a high government official in the White House as saying: "If the United States ever experiences (an attempt at a coup to overthrow the Government) it will come from the C. I. A. and not the Pentagon.”
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http://www.jfklancer.com/Krock.html)
Kennedy said to his collaborator Clark Clifford (shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion) that, "Something very bad is going on within the CIA and I want to know what it is. I want to shred the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the four winds."
-1963/November 22 The CIA et al murders JFK in Dallas, TX
Afterwards Lyndon Johnson (who was long sponsored in politics by Brown and Root) takes the oath of office on Air Force One flying from Dallas, gets a wink from fellow *Texan* Congressman Albert Thomas, and within days has canceled JFK’s orders to end the Vietnam war, instead escalating it dramatically.
(Note: Recently declassified memos from FBI kingpin J. Edgar Hoover show that “George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency” was in Dallas when JFK was killed. Note 2: The mayor of Dallas at that time was Earle Cabell, brother of Charles Cabell.)
-1963/December 22 Former President Harry Truman writes an article in the Washington Post entitled “Limit CIA Role To Intelligence” in which he says:
“For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.
I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations…But there are now some searching questions that need to be answered…There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.”
(Full text attached)
>1964 Ted Kennedy is in "a plane crash in which the pilot and one of Kennedy's aides were killed. He was pulled from the wreckage by fellow senator Birch E. Bayh II (D-Ind.) and spent weeks in a hospital recovering from a severe back injury, a punctured lung, broken ribs, and internal bleeding.
-1965 the FBI et al murders Malcolm X shortly after he allied with MLK
-1968 the FBI et al murders MLK one year after he says his mission is to end the morally and fiscally wrong Vietnam war and thereby free up funds to help poor people
-1968 RFK starts a run for president. He has said he’ll end the (President Johnson’s) Vietnam war and shows great concern for civil rights. He also says he’ll investigate his brother’s murder. He wins the CA primary thereby almost assuring the Dem nomination.
-1968 the CIA et al murders RFK on the night he wins the CA primary. With RFK gone, Richard Nixon (one of the few people who can't remember where they were when JFK was killed) is able to become president.
>1969 Ted Kennedy wakes up someplace in Chappaquiddick and is told he was in a car crash that killed Mary Jo Kopechne. Any chance of ever being president has also been killed (tho’ he briefly considered it in 1972).
-1972 “Nixon attempts to stop the FBI investigation into the Watergate burglary by asking the head of the CIA to say it was one of their own operations. It wasn't. To pressure the CIA into going along with the plan he tells his chief of staff HR Haldeman,
as recorded on the White House tapes, to let the head of the CIA know that should the FBI not to continue their investigation because it could “Open up the whole Bay of Pigs thing...” In his book 'The Ends of Power' Haldeman states that Nixon used 'The Bay of Pigs' as a euphemism for the JFK assassination.”
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/neal.mccarthy/jfkvideos.htm (Note: The Watergate “burglars” are veterans of the Bay of Pigs, and include E. Howard Hunt.
Note: “Most of the CIA leadership around the invasion of Cuba seems to have been people from Texas. A whole Texan branch of the CIA is based in the oil business. If we trace Bush's background in the Texas oil business we discover his two partners in the oil-barge leasing business: Texan Robert Mosbacher and Texan James Baker….On the Watergate tapes, June 23, 1972, referred to in the media as the "smoking gun" conversation, Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, discussed…the role of George Bush's partner, Robert Mosbacher, as one of the Texas fundraisers for Nixon. On the tapes Nixon keeps refering to the "Cubans" and the "Texans." The "Texans" were Bush, Mosbacher and Baker. This is another direct link between Bush and evidence linking Nixon and Bush to the Kennedy assassination.
In the same discussion Nixon links "the Cubans," "the Texans," "Helms," "Hunt," "Bernard Barker," Robert "Mosbacher" and "the Bay of Pigs." Over and over on the Watergate tapes, these names come up around the discussion of the photos from Dallas that Nixon was trying to obtain when he ordered the CIA to burglarize the Watergate. (Source: Three Men and a Barge", Teresa Riordan, Common Cause magazine, March/April 1990, and San Francisco Chronicle, May 7,1977, interview with Frank Sturgis in which he stated that "the reason we burglarized the Watergate was because Nixon was interested in stopping news leaking related to the photos of our role in the assassination of President John Kennedy.")
After Nixon's landslide victory in 1972, he knew he had to centralize all power into the White House to keep his faction in power, not only to hold power, but to prevent the media from digging into how he secretly shot his way into the White House, just like Hitler shot his way into control of Germany. The first thing Nixon did was to demand signed resignations of his entire government. "Eliminate everyone," he told John Ehrlichman about reappointment, "except George Bush. Bush will do anything for our cause." (Source: Pledging Allegiance, Sidney Blumenthal.)
http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/dead_kennedys/161963.html)
>1973 John Dean, Nixon’s lawyer, says to Richard Nixon as recorded on the White House tapes: "If Teddy knew the bear trap he was walking into at Chappaquiddick. . . ."
-1974 Richard Nixon resigns in disgrace, making newly appointed Vice President Gerald Ford President. Ford was on the Warren Commission which claimed that there was no conspiracy to kill JFK. Ford was one of the main proponents of Arlen Spector’s “magic bullet” theory that was needed to prop up the premise that there was only one shooter (supposedly Lee Harvey Oswald, who by the way was an FBI informer and CIA agent).
-1974 President Ford pardons Richard Nixon.
-1975 President Ford names George HW Bush CIA Director
-1981/January President Reagan is sworn in with George HW Bush as Vice President.
-1981/March President Reagan, his press secretary James Brady, and two others were shot by John Hinckley, Jr.. Missing Reagan’s heart by less than one inch, the bullet instead struck his left lung, which likely spared his life. The shooter was John Hinckley, brother of Scott Hinckley who was scheduled to have dinner with Neil Bush, son of George HW Bush, the night of the shooting.
-1985 A civil court jury ruled against CIA agent and convicted Watergate “burglar” E. Howard Hunt’s claims of libel after determining that he was in Dallas on June 21, 1963 – the day before JFK’s murder – and was therefore most likely involved in the conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy.
-1989 George HW Bush (one of the few people who can't remember where they were when JFK was killed) becomes president
-2001 George W Bush becomes president in an obvious coup we all witnessed. And the rest is history!
Refs:
Available on request or via google, etc.
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The Washington Post
December 22, 1963 - page A11
Harry Truman Writes:
Limit CIA Role
To Intelligence
By Harry S Truman
Copyright, 1963, by Harry S Truman
________________________________________
INDEPENDENCE, MO., Dec. 21 — I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency—CIA. At least, I would like to submit here the original reason why I thought it necessary to organize this Agency during my Administration, what I expected it to do and how it was to operate as an arm of the President.
I think it is fairly obvious that by and large a President's performance in office is as effective as the information he has and the information he gets. That is to say, that assuming the President himself possesses a knowledge of our history, a sensitive understanding of our institutions, and an insight into the needs and aspirations of the people, he needs to have available to him the most accurate and up-to-the-minute information on what is going on everywhere in the world, and particularly of the trends and developments in all the danger spots in the contest between East and West. This is an immense task and requires a special kind of an intelligence facility.
Of course, every President has available to him all the information gathered by the many intelligence agencies already in existence. The Departments of State, Defense, Commerce, Interior and others are constantly engaged in extensive information gathering and have done excellent work.
But their collective information reached the President all too frequently in conflicting conclusions. At times, the intelligence reports tended to be slanted to conform to established positions of a given department. This becomes confusing and what's worse, such intelligence is of little use to a President in reaching the right decisions.
Therefore, I decided to set up a special organization charged with the collection of all intelligence reports from every available source, and to have those reports reach me as President without department "treatment" or interpretations.
I wanted and needed the information in its "natural raw" state and in as comprehensive a volume as it was practical for me to make full use of it. But the most important thing about this move was to guard against the chance of intelligence being used to influence or to lead the President into unwise decisions—and I thought it was necessary that the President do his own thinking and evaluating.
Since the responsibility for decision making was his—then he had to be sure that no information is kept from him for whatever reason at the discretion of any one department or agency, or that unpleasant facts be kept from him. There are always those who would want to shield a President from bad news or misjudgments to spare him from being "upset."
For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.
I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue—and a subject for cold war enemy propaganda.
With all the nonsense put out by Communist propaganda about "Yankee imperialism," "exploitive capitalism," "war-mongering," "monopolists," in their name-calling assault on the West, the last thing we needed was for the CIA to be seized upon as something akin to a subverting influence in the affairs of other people.
I well knew the first temporary director of the CIA, Adm. Souers, and the later permanent directors of the CIA, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg and Allen Dulles. These were men of the highest character, patriotism and integrity—and I assume this is true of all those who continue in charge.
But there are now some searching questions that need to be answered. I, therefore, would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President, and that whatever else it can properly perform in that special field—and that its operational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere.
We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.
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