by DrDebugDU » Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:38 pm
<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The Kennedys were making big changes - and powerful enemies in the process...</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Let's summarize the powers which were working against John F. Kennedy:<br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">The CIA.</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br>Under the direction of Allen W. Dulles they managed to become one of the most powerful government agencies. During the Kennedy administration attempts were made to limit their power. The most powerful characters in this group are:<br><br>1. James Jesus Angleton (1)<br>H. R. Haldeman, President Nixon's chief of staff, claimed in his book, The Ends of Power:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>"After Kennedy was killed, the CIA launched a fantastic cover-up. The CIA literally erased any connection between Kennedy's assassination and the CIA... in fact, Counter intelligence Chief James Angleton of the CIA called Bill Sullivan of the FBI and rehearsed the questions and answers they would give to the Warren Commission investigators."<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>2. George H.W. Bush (2)<br>George H.W. Bush was working with Felix Rodriguez recruiting right-wing Cuban exiles for the invasion of Cuba. It was Bush's CIA job to organize the Cuban community in Miami for the invasion. The Cubans were trained as marksmen by the CIA.<br><br>Bush owned oil platforms in international waters as part as (Operation) Zapata, his operations were also used all kinds of smuggling operation. The oil platforms never found any oil, but that never seemed to bother George H.W. Bush.<br><br>George didn't become an official CIA member since he was suddenly assigned Director of Central Intelligence in 1976. He was active in the CIA in deep undercover operations since the beginning of the 1960s.<br><br>3. Allen W. Dulles<br>Allen Welsh Dulles was the main United Fruit Company shareholder. CIA Director (1953-1961). Responsible for coups in Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Tibet, Congo, Cuba. Fired by JFK in 1961 over Northwoods in particular and the Cuban failures in general.<br><br>4. William Harvey (3)<br>Harvey was involved a policy that was later to become known as Executive Action (a plan to remove unfriendly foreign leaders from power).<br><br>5. Robert Maheu also working for Howard Hughes (4)<br>In 1947 Maheu established his own investigative company. Maheu worked for both the Central Intelligence Agency and Howard Hughes who used his billions for various covert operations.<br><br>6. John McCone<br>Director CIA (1961-1965). Previously worked for Standard Oil, Ford Foundation, Chase Manhattan Bank. Blocked the execution of Nazis and later pardonned convicted Nazis including Fritz Thyssen - one of Prescott Bush's business partners. In 1956 McCloy attacked the suggestion made by Adlai Stevenson that there should be a nuclear test ban. Was part of United Fruit Company with Allen Dulles.<br><br>7. Theodore Shackley (5)<br>Theodore Shackley was the leader of Brigade 2506<br><br>Jonathan Kwitny writes about Ted Shackley in his book, The Crimes of Patriots:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Looking at the list of disasters Shackley has presided over during his career, one might even conclude that on the day the CIA hired Shackley it might have done better hiring a KGB agent; a Soviet mole probably could not have done as much damage to the national security of the United States with all his wile as Shackley did with the most patriotic of intentions.<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>8. David Sanchez Morales (6)</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>David Morales became involved in CIA's Black Operations. In May, 1962, Morales was seconded to ZR/RIFLE, the plot to assassinate Castro.<br><br>John Simkin (7) speculation<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>David Morales was put in charge of the assassination. He employed people he had been working with in Miami to undermine the government of Cuba. This included figures in the anti-Castro Cuban community. It also involved American military advisers to groups like Alpha 66. The Cubans believed that the reason for this plot was that after the assassination of JFK, LBJ would order the invasion of Cuba. In fact, this was never the objective. It was part of the overall conspiracy to keep Castro in power. The presence of a communist state so close to the United States helped to reinforce the communist threat and the need for massive arms spending ( 8 )<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Wim Dankbaar (9) speculation:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>David Morales planned the assassination. He was a CIA agent but this was not a CIA operation. Morales in turn recruited men who had worked for the Mafia (Herminio Diaz Garcia, John Martino) but it was not a Mafia operation. He also employed members of the anti-Castro Cuban community (Antonio Veciana, Eladio del Valle) but it was not a Alpha 66 operation. Although we can speculate, we will never know the name of the organization behind the assassination. Morales was the cut-out. Once he died in 1978 this became impossible to know. (10)<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>My speculation:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>I think that David Morales is the most likely character. Ted Shackley had the experience, but Shackley's operations always screwed up and became failures, so I doubt whether they would take the risk. As far as the team goes, I have no idea who did what. I think the people on the Grassy Knoll were a team, a second team in the Book Depository and probably another team in one of the County buildings for a triangular shot.<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">The Cuban-exiles.</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br>Their objective of reconquering Cuba had been permanently delayed. In the meantime they managed to get a stronghold within the CIA. These are the people which were supposed to run Cuba. The most powerful characters in this group are:<br>1. Luis Posada Carriles<br>Part of Operation 40, Bay of Pigs. Did some hotel bombings. In 1976 he bombed a Cuban jetliner which killed 73 people. When he was arrested in Venezuela they found a map of the daily route of Orlando Letelier, Chilean Foreign Minister killed 21st September, 1976. Went to jail for 20 years. Escaped in 1985. Did some cocaine smuggling to pass the time and was arrested in 2000 in Panama trying to kill Fidel Castro. Pardonned in August, 2004.<br><br>2. E. Howard Hunt (11)<br>E. Howard Hunt was the political and the psychological warfare director for the Guatemalan coup, he was one of the tramps on Dealey Plaza and worked for the White House under President Richard Nixon, figured in the Watergate Scandal, and was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison. His wife got killed in suspicious circumstances.<br><br>3. Rolando Martinez (12)<br>Rolando Martinez was one of the Watergate burglars as well.<br><br>4. Felix Rodriguez (13)<br>Part of the Bay of Pigs invasion and would be involved in many anti-Castro operations. In 1967 he captured Che Guevara. During Iran-Contra it was revelead that he was busy smuggling drugs as well. Good friend of George H.W. Bush.<br><br>5. Frank Sturgis (14)<br>Frank Sturgis was also involved in Operation 40 and one of the tramps on Dealey Plaza and one of the Watergate burglars. He later explained:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>"this assassination group (Operation 40) would upon orders, naturally, assassinate either members of the military or the political parties of the foreign country that you were going to infiltrate, and if necessary some of your own members who were suspected of being foreign agents... We were concentrating strictly in Cuba at that particular time. Actually, they were operating out of Mexico, too."<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>6. Chi Chi Quintero (15)<br>An explosives expert and sniper. He was part of Bay of Pigs, Castro assassination group. Involved in guns and drugs smuggling in Costa Rica.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Rafael "Chi Chi" Quintero, CIA veteran, once said that if he were granted immunity and compelled to testify about past actions, it would be the biggest scandal ever to hit the United States.<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">The FBI</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br>In the person of J. Edgar Hoover who build a huge organization for himself, but Robert Kennedy wanted to move the FBI under presidential control. The most powerful characters in this group are:<br>1. J. Edgar Hoover<br>Hoover appointed himself for life and died 2nd May, 1972 still in office of course. Hoover hated all the Kennedys and especially Robert who was his boss, but Hoover thought of himself as his own boss. Best FBI director organized crime ever had.<br><br>2. Clyde Tolson<br>Second in command. Often refered to as Edgar's girlfriend. The couple was known as "J. Edna and Mother Tolson". Destroyed all of J. Edgar Hoover's files after he died.<br><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">The Mafia.</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br><br>They had a lot of business interests in Cuba and managed to get a stronghold within the CIA and Lyndon B. Johnson. But Robert Kennedy was working against them. The most powerful characters in this group are:<br>1. Sam Giancana<br>Mob boss in charge of Chicago. Made some deals with Allen W. Dulles about killing Castro. According Godfather Joe Bonanno, Sam Giancana ordered the hit on Kennedy.<br><br>2. Carlos Marcello<br>Mob boss in charge of Louisiana. The Kennedys made him appear before the Senate Committee investigating organized crime. And Robert deported him to Guatemala.<br><br>3. John Martino (16)<br>After his release he threw in with Cuban exiles and later claimed that they had framed Lee Harvey Oswald. He also wrote Cuba and the Kennedy Assassination by John Martino where he tried to blame to John F. Kennedy Assassination on Cuba.<br><br>4. John Roselli (17)<br>Hired by the CIA to kill Castro. He was present on Dealey Plaza<br><br>5. Santos Trafficante<br>Lost his casinos in Cuba. Made some deals with Allen W. Dulles about killing Castro. Jack Ruby met Trafficante on November 22. Was involved in Iran-Contra as well.<br><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">Texas Oil</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br>They had become very powerful, but during the Kennedy administration attempt were made to chip away their powerbase and wanted 2% of their fortune which was outrageous of course. The most powerful characters in this group are:<br><br>1. George H.W. Bush<br>Followed father's footsteps into the oil business by entering Brown Brothers Harriman. Formed Zapata in 1953. Involved in Bay of Pigs. On Dealey Plaza on Nov 22. Tried to run for politics in 1964: "CUBA INVASION URGED BY GOP CANDIDATE" and pro-segregation and anti-civil rights. Bush was beaten by Ralph Yarborough. Since he was too right- winged for even the Texans, he now pretends to be a moderate and gets elected in 1966. Ambassador to the UN. Director CIA (76-77). Vice President (81-89). Attempted to kill Ronald Reagan. Iran-Contra scandal. President (89-93). First Gulf War. Pushed his sons into selected president and governor. Became involved in Carlyle Group. Had a meeting with the Bin Ladens on 9/11. Endless list of scandals and dirty deals.<br><br>2. Haroldson L. Hunt<br>Richest man in 1948. Liked to spread right-wing propaganda. Kennedy tried to touch his billions!<br><br>3. George De Mohrenschildt<br>Friend of Oswald. Friend of George Bush. Friend of H.L. Hunt. Started working for Prescott Bush. CIA since 1959. Later went to Haiti to do business with Papa Doc Duvalier. The very day the Committee tried to contact de Mohrenschildt about testifying, he was found dead of a gun shot wound.<br><br>4. Clint Murchison<br>Railroad and Oil tycoon. Funded the American Nazi Party. Number of Mafia deals. Friend of J. Edgar Hoover. Has present in the meeting on Nov 21 with LBJ.<br><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">US Officials.</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br>A group within the Kennedy administration considered Kennedy a weak president who did not cater to their ideas of military intervention and gave too much away in his negotiations with the Russian and Cubans. The most powerful characters in this groups are:<br>1. McGeorge Bundy<br>Ford Foundation. Skull and Bones. Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. Took his orders from Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and not JFK. Pushed for Vietnam War. 4 days after the JFK assassiantion he pushed a new memorandium calling for escalation of the Vietnam War.<br><br>2. William Bundy<br>Secretary of the Navy. CIA member as well. Pushed for Vietnam War.<br><br>3. W. Averell Harriman<br>Ambassor to Soviet Union. Ambassador-at-large under JFK. Skull and Bones. Did quite a lot of business with Hitler. Involved in the Ngo Dinh Diem assassination. Pushed for Vietnam War.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;">4. Lyndon B. Johnson</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>See below<br><br>5. Henry Cabot Lodge<br>Defeated by JFK in 1952. Ambassador to Vietnam. Involved in the Ngo Dinh Diem assassination. Pushed for Vietnam War.<br><br>6. Richard Nixon ( 18 )<br>He was put in charge of Operation 40. Nixon was a friend of Lyndon Johnson. Was in Dallas on Nov 22. President 1969-1974. Promised to end the Vietnam War as an election program. Made even a bigger mess of Vietnam and started to escalate it into Laos and Cambodia. Promised to end the Vietnam War for his reelection campaign and got his second term.<br><br>Resigned before he could be impeached for breaking and entering, bribing, obstruction of justice, false statements, withholding evidence, interfering with a federal investigation, misuse of the CIA, deceiving the people of the USA, bribing people for false testimony and being subversive of the constitutional government. Pardonned by his good friend Gerald Ford.<br><br>Most famous quote (19):<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:red;"><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>I am NOT a crook!</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>There are a number of indication that Watergate could have been related to JFK as well (removing documents left by LBJ's assistent who was also the DNC chairperson). "Bay of Pigs" in Nixon-terminology means "JFK assassination". It makes his messages quite interesting.<br><br>Haldeman, The Ends of Power:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>"In fact, I was puzzled when he [Nixon] told me, 'Tell Ehrlichman this whole group of Cubans [Watergate burglars] is tied to the Bay of Pigs.'<br><br><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="color:blue;">"Tell Ehrlichman this whole group of Watergate burglars is tied to the JFK assassination"</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>7. Richard Russell, Jr.<br>Friend of LBJ. Many connections to Texas Oil and the Armaments industry.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The problem is that Kennedy was popular and well liked with the people. The likelyhood of a second term was big. Kennedy didn't make any real peace, but he continously refused to start wars. Also his half worked-out plans were not very well liked by the powers behind the scenes.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>The main character in this whole group is Lyndon B. Johnson who had his finger in most of the above. In the next topic we will take a closer look at Johnson.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Sources and notes:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>(1) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SSangleton.htm">www.spartacus.schoolnet.c...gleton.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(2a) George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin ( <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm">www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> )<br>(2b) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.sumeria.net/politics/kennedy.html">www.sumeria.net/politics/kennedy.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(3) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKharvey.htm">www.spartacus.schoolnet.c...harvey.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(4) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmaheu.htm">www.spartacus.schoolnet.c...Kmaheu.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(5) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKshackley.htm">www.spartacus.schoolnet.c...ackley.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(6) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmorales.htm">www.spartacus.schoolnet.c...orales.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(7) Leading JFK expert. He is the webmaster behind spartacus one of the most comprehensive and biggest history websites.<br>( 8 ) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=1037">educationforum.ipbhost.co...topic=1037</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(9) Another leading JFK expert.<br>(10) see 8<br>(11) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhuntH.htm">www.spartacus.schoolnet.c...KhuntH.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(12) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.ajweberman.com/nodules/nodule20.htm">www.ajweberman.com/nodules/nodule20.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(13) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Felix_Rodriguez">demopedia.democraticunder..._Rodriguez</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(14) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsturgis.htm">www.spartacus.schoolnet.c...turgis.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(15) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/chris.holt/home.informal/bar/corsair.afdq/contra.cards/23.html">homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/ch...ds/23.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(16) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmartino.htm">www.spartacus.schoolnet.c...artino.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(17) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKroselli.htm">www.spartacus.schoolnet.c...oselli.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>( 18 ) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/bennett.htm">www.jfkmurdersolved.com/bennett.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(19) <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/111873-1.htm">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...1873-1.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>