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.
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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.
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The report identifies other tantalizing information that McCone did not reveal to the commission, including evidence that the CIA might somehow have been in communication with Oswald before 1963 and that the spy agency had secretly monitored Oswald’s mail after he attempted to defect to the Soviet Union in 1959.
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How odd. The CIA lying about stuff and being involved in all this. Who’da thunk, eh?
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Truth is often stranger than fiction, particularly when the CIA is involved.
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Indeed. The “official” story on the Kennedy assassination is crazier and as full of crap, IMO, as the whacked out 9/11 conspiracies are. Ruby killed Oswald because he didn’t want Jackie to have to come back to Texas for a trail. Yeah. Right.
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I agree. From Wikipedia: [emphasis added by me]
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Yep. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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I meant “for a trial” not a trail. 🙂
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