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Title: Finally, The CIA Admits Covering Up JFK Assassination
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Counter Current News
URL Source: http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/10/finally-the-cia-admits/
Published: Oct 10, 2015
Author: Sophie McAdam
Post Date: 2016-08-15 11:00:26 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 2660
Comments: 12
Even if you have to wait over 50 years, eventually the truth will out…
Suspicions that the CIA covered up JFK‘s murder have finally been confirmed, according to an explosive Politico report out this week. Fifty-two years after the President’s death, declassified documents show that the CIA were in communication with alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before JFK’s murder in 1963, and they were monitoring his mail since 1959.
Not only that but John McCone, who was Chief of the CIA at the time, allegedly hid evidence from the Warren commission, set up by Lyndon Johnson to investigate JFK’s assassination. The spymaster and other senior CIA officials are accused of withholding ‘incendiary’ information from the commission and therefore perverting the course of justice. The CIA has admitted this.
The Politico report is based on evidence given by CIA historian David Robarge. He has claimed the cover-up was 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.” McCone directed the CIA to provide only “passive, reactive and selective” assistance to the Warren commission, meaning the investigation was severely compromised and did not follow up any other leads which may have been crucial in the search for truth.
Robarge also believes that John McCone, who died in 1991, withheld vital information relating to various CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. The historian points out that these plots may well be linked to JFK‘s assassination – there’s a strong chance his murder was a revenge attack for CIA operations in Cuba- but McCone’s unwillingness to explore other potentialities outside of prime suspect Lee Harvey Oswald could have resulted in a grave miscarriage of justice.
JFK was America’s youngest ever and most charismatic President, and his death shocked the nation. Alternative murder theories are popular across the States: A 2013 poll found that only 30% of Americans believe Oswald shot JFK, and that he acted alone. 61% believed that others were involved in a conspiracy (see the embedded video to find out why).
David Robarge first published these exclusive claims in a secret internal CIA magazine in 2013. His claims have now been declassified and can be publicly accessed here on the George Washington University’s National Security Archive. Robarge has also written a biography of John McCone, but his book continues to be classified. What else might the historian have uncovered? Here’s hoping that the full truth of what happened in Dealy Plaza on that fateful day will very soon be common knowledge.
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Finally, The CIA Admits Covering Up JFK Assassination
The link in the above sensational article links to a "Politico report" as its source. That report is excerpted below.
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.[...]
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.
While raising no question about the essential findings of the Warren Commission, including that Oswald was the gunman in Dallas, the 2013 report is important because it comes close to an official CIA acknowledgement—half a century after the fact—of impropriety in the agency’s dealings with the commission. The coverup by McCone and others may have been “benign,” in the report’s words, but it was a cover-up nonetheless, denying information to the commission that might have prompted a more aggressive investigation of Oswald’s potential Cuba ties.
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In a statement to POLITICO, the CIA said it decided to declassify the report “to highlight misconceptions about the CIA’s connection to JFK’s assassination,” including the still-popular conspiracy theory that the spy agency was somehow behind the assassination. (Articles in the CIA magazine are routinely declassified without fanfare after internal review.)
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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.
#2. To: Y'ALL (#0)
Here’s hoping that the full truth of what happened in Dealy Plaza on that fateful day will very soon be common knowledge.
FAT CHANCE...
The full truth of what happened in Dealy Plaza on that fateful day will never be known.
Mainly because of the (deliberately?) botched autopsy.
#3. To: tpaine (#2)
The only thing I believe is that LHO did not shoot Kennedy, and in fact did not shoot anybody on that day.
Exercising rights is only radical to two people, Tyrants and Slaves. Which are YOU? Our ignorance has driven us into slavery and we do not recognize it.
#4. To: Deckard (#0)
I kept reading “allegedly hid evidence” and “accused of withholding evidence” along with “claimed the cover-up” and “may well be linked “ and more of the same type nebulous and indecisive phrases laced throughout the article.
Yet the author in his infinite knowledge is able to piece all of this vagueness together and state emphatically that: “Finally, The CIA Admits Covering Up JFK Assassination.”
Your gullibility and rush to judgment never ceases to amaze me…
#5. To: Gatlin (#4)
Your gullibility to accept the official government narrative concerning any event no matter how implausible or ridiculous never ceases to amaze me.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#6. To: jeremiad (#3)
" The only thing I believe is that LHO did not shoot Kennedy "
I agree with that.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
if you look around, we have gone so far down the the rat hole, the almighty is going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah, if we don't have a judgement come down on us.
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood
"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
#7. To: Deckard (#5)
Your gullibility to accept the official government narrative concerning any event no matter how implausible or ridiculous never ceases to amaze me.
I did not accept the government narrative, I merely stressed there two sides of the story and none of us know which is true. We should know that it is not intelligent to accept ONLY the side of the story the author presents.
Your narrow-minded agenda driven outlook makes you stupid to accept ONLY the information presented second hand by an author as truth is not surprising....not surprising at all.
Grow up....learn to think and act like an adult.
#8. To: Gatlin (#7)
I did not accept the government narrative
Bullshit. You've bought into every single official government pronouncement that comes down the pike.
You're a fucking sheep, that's what sheep do.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#9. To: Deckard (#8)
That is not true. What you have seen is my refusal to buy into the one-sided information on every yellow journalism article you posted....as you continually, go for it whole hog.
Your warped logic continues to flourish.
#10. To: Gatlin (#9) (Edited)
yellow journalism
You bleating simpleton.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#11. To: jeremiad, Y'ALL (#3)
The full truth of what happened in Dealy Plaza on that fateful day will never be known.
Mainly because of the (deliberately?) botched autopsy.
The only thing I believe is that LHO did not shoot Kennedy, and in fact did not shoot anybody on that day. --- jeremiad
I've heard that theory, but I think it's pretty well established that he was at both shooting scenes that day, -- So the odds are he was involved.
A valid autopsy would have proven that a single shot could have hit both JFK and Connelly. -- And given credence to the theory that Oswald could have made the shots.
But we'll never know.
#12. To: Deckard (#10)
...yellow journalism...
Yellow journalism has a notoriously bad reputation. Placing more importance on scandal-mongering and sensationalism than facts has condemned yellow journalism as bad journalism. And some professional journalists dispute whether it is a form of journalism at all.
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