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1. E. HOWARD HUNT, THE CIA OFFICER WHO ADMITTED HE WAS PART OF THE PLOT TO MURDER JFK.

There was a time when E. Howard Hunt would make the news simply by showing his face in public. Hunt ran the ‘Plumbers’, the dirty tricks unit that broke into the Watergate building in 1972, and sparked the Watergate scandal. Offices in the building were occupied by the Democratic Party. The ‘Plumbers’ were seeking political information for Richard Nixon, a Republican, who was president at the time.

The Plumbers were Nixon’s private intelligence and dirty tricks group. Nixon gave Hunt the job as leader of the unit because of his CIA background. When Nixon was vice-president, he oversaw the preparations for what became the Bay of Pigs fiasco, when a US-backed paramilitary force invaded Cuba. Hunt was centrally involved in that and other CIA dirty trick operations, as was Nixon. Had it not been for Watergate, Hunt would probably have become Director of the CIA later in the 1970s.

Hunt knew where all of the CIA’s dirty linen was hidden because he had soiled most of it himself. In 2004, he made a series of tape recordings with his son wherein he outlined how the CIA had assassinated JFK in 1963.

The JFK assassination may appear complex on the surface but that is only because so many lies have been woven around it. If one proceeds on the assumption that E. Howard Hunt was telling the truth, the story is remarkably simple: the CIA did it in partnership with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Edgar J. Hoover of the FBI was a willing participant in the cover-up that took place after the killing. Lee Harvey Oswald was exactly what he had claimed he was, a ‘patsy’, not the lone gunman who shot JFK. The fatal shot was pulled by a ‘French gunman’ on the grassy knoll.

Many of the CIA files which were declassified and unredacted in March 2025 are consistent with this thesis.

2. RUTH PAINE, 93, POSSIBLY THE LAST LIVING CONSPIRATOR.

The evidence of the medical staff at Parkland Hospital, an array of eyewitnesses, Marguerite Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald, E. Howard Hunt, David Atlee Philips, Jack Ruby, David Morales, Christian David, James and Elsie Wilcott, Ann Egeter, Rose Cherami, Madeline Browne, Jane Roman and members of the Giancana family, is also consistent and combines to point to a conspiracy involving state actors.

The actions of Ruth Paine are considered later in this article (starting at section 18).

She is quite possibly the last living conspirator in the plot against JFK.

Time will tell if Kash Patell, the new Director of the FBI, or any of the other officials probing the JFK case, will order an investigation into Paine, especially her tax records which have been classified for six decades.

Paine is now 93.

3. THE OFFICIAL POSITION IS THAT JFK WAS THE VICTIM OF A CONSPIRACY

According to the Warren Commission, Lee Harvey Oswald was meant to have shot JFK from the Dallas School Book Depository on 22nd November 1963.

The findings of the Warren Commission were set aside by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1979. The HSCA was set up by the US Congress. It determined that JFK had been shot as a result of a conspiracy. The HSCA did not identify the conspirators.

The Chairman of the HSCA was G. Robert Blakey. He has since accused the CIA of having lied to his committee, something many in Washington realised at the time. History will not be kind to Blakely. He let JFK’s killers slip through his fingers when there was a real chance of bringing them to justice.

Blakey’s suspicion fell on the Mafia as if they were capable of directing the CIA, FBI and various White House administrations to cover up the crime for decades.

4. OSWALD WANTED TO BE A SPY.

As a young boy, Oswald fantasised about becoming a spy. His favourite show on TV was ‘I Led 3 Lives’. It featured a daring American agent who went undercover to infiltrate Communist groups and report back to his FBI superiors about their plans to undermine the USA. Unlike most children with such fantasies, Oswald grew up to become a spy.

Oswald’s first brush with the intelligence community took place during his membership of the Civil Air Patrol which he joined as a cadet in 1955. While a cadet, he met David Ferrie, a pilot who flew missions for the CIA in the Caribbean and elsewhere. Ferrie was also mixed up with the mafia and the anti-Castro Cuban community. Later, he played a part in the JFK assassination.

5. LEE HARVEY OSWALD WAS A ‘PATSY‘.

6. OSWALD’S MOTHER BELIEVED HER SON WAS A SPY.

Oswald became a US Marine and served as a radar operator at Atsugi Naval Air Base, in Japan. The CIA flew U2 spy planes from Atsugi over the Soviet Union. In 1959 Oswald defected to the USSR. Oswald’s mother, Marguerite, revealed that she received letters from the State Department, and also from Lee while he was in Russia, both of which indicated that he was an agent of the US Government.

Footage of Marguerite Oswald discussing her son can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79w44wF7xak

7.  OSWALD WAS ON THE CIA PAYROLL.

James B. Wilcott, a former finance officer for the CIA, at its Tokyo station, appeared before the HSCA in the late 1970’s. He had been employed by the CIA, from 1957 to 1966. He told the HSCA that he learned from his colleagues in Tokyo that Oswald had been a secret operative for the CIA while serving as a marine at Atsugi.

The revelation was made to him after JFK was shot. The Tokyo station went on alert. Wilcott was assigned to a twenty four hour security duty. He passed the time with agents who became quite drunk. They told him Oswald had worked for the CIA. His reaction was thus:

‘At first I thought, these guys are nuts, but then a man I knew and had worked with before showed up to take a disbursement and told me Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA employee. I didn’t believe him until he told me the cryptonym under which Oswald had drawn funds when he returned from Russia to the U.S.‘

Wilcott provided the HSCA with the names of other officials who had knowledge of Oswald’s employment with the agency.

8. FOR SIXTY YEARS THE CIA CONCEALED THE ROLE OF ITS CHIEF OF STATION IN TOKYO WHO WANTED TO SUPPRESS PRESS INVESTIGATIONS IN JAPAN INTO OSWALD’S RECRUITMENT BY THE CIA IN JAPAN.

The 2025 declassified CIA files show that the Chief of Station (COS) in Japan schemed to deter Japanese reporters from investigating allegations Oswald was recruited by the CIA in Japan.

Why was it necessary to place this document among those the CIA deemed top secret for six decades on the ground of national security?

9. OSWALD AND THE SECRET CIA AIRBASE IN JAPAN.

The troopship that brought Oswald to Japan docked on 12th September, 1957. He was then assigned to the Marine Air Control Squadron No. 1 (MACS-1) at Atsugi. The airbase was located about 35 miles southwest of Tokyo.

Oswald worked as a radar operator in MACS-1, which was part of the Marine Air Group division 11 (MAG-11).

The Marine Corps Nuclear Weapons Assembly Team was located at MAG-11,  thus, the CIA’s U-2 spy plane was not the only top secret programme about which Oswald could have picked up nuggets of information at Atsuki.

During his off-duty hours, he began to frequent Japanese nightclubs such as the Queen Bee in Yamoto where he engaged in a relationship with a Japanese girl. He later developed a relationship with a woman who was half Russian.

At some stage, Oswald began playing a part, that of a disgruntled left-wing youth who might be willing to disclose secrets to his communist friends. Soon, he was providing them with plenty of reasons to believe he was deeply unhappy at the CIA spy base.

On 27th October, 1957, Oswald allegedly pulled some gear out of his locker whereupon a loaded .22 calibre Derringer pistol fell out. The weapon discharged when it hit the floor and Oswald was allegedly wounded in his left elbow. He was court-martialled on 11th April, 1958, for possession of an unregistered personal weapon. He was sentenced to 20 days hard labour and fined $50 and demoted to Private from Private First Class. The sentence of 20 days hard labour was suspended for six months. In addition, Oswald was reassigned to serve as a mess cook. The fact the sentence was suspended, enabled Oswald walk free to complain about his plight to all and sundry.

Shortly after this, Oswald confronted, Miguel Rodriguez, a NCO who had assigned him to the kitchen and challenged him to a fight. Instead, the sergeant filed a complaint and Oswald was tossed into the brig, or so we have been told.

Oswald faced a second court-martial on 27th June, 1958. He was convicted of insubordination and sentenced to 28 days confinement and hard labour. His prior suspended sentence of 20 days hard labour was also activated. If E. Howard Hunt and others were telling the truth, and Oswald was a CIA asset, he was probably taken to a CIA facility to prepare for a false defection to the USSR, not the brig.

While allegedly in the brig, Oswald was meant to have become embroiled in a fight with a guard. Yet, he was released three days early, having served forty-five days of his sentence.

Oswald returned to duty and spent as much time as possible in Tokyo. There, he met another Japanese girl with whom he became friendly.

10. OSWALD VISITED NIGHT CLUBS IN JAPAN WHERE COMMUNISTS CONGREGATED. HE CONTRACTED GONORRHOEA IN THE ‘LINE OF DUTY, NOT DUE TO HIS OWN MISCONDUCT’.

On 14th September, 1958, Oswald’s unit was shipped to Northern Taiwan.

On 16th September, 1958, he visited the sick bay and was diagnosed with gonorrhoea. Oswald’s official medical file reveals that Captain Paul Deranian, the senior medical officer at Atsugi, recorded that Oswald had contracted “Urethritis, Acute, due to gonococcus #0303.” The file notes that he suffered the condition in the ‘line of duty, not due to own misconduct’.

One night, while on guard duty in Taiwan, Oswald fired several shots at something he claimed he had seen moving in the distance. The officer who investigated found Oswald slumped against a tree, shaking and crying, or so we are told. Oswald claimed that he had seen men in the nearby woods, had challenged them, and fired when they did not respond. The officer later suggested that it was all an act to get Oswald shipped back to Japan. It was undoubtedly a ruse but one that bears the hallmark of the CIA. It got Oswald back to Japan.

Back at Atsugi Naval Air base, Oswald sent to the hospital and was treated for his gonorrhoea, from 7th October to the 13th. He was not court-martialled for this as it was deemed he had contracted the infection during the course of duty. This indicates that his trips to the night clubs in Tokyo were part of his CIA mission, one designed to bring him to the attention of communists who would remember him when he defected to the USSR a year later. In spy parlance, he was creating his ‘legend’.

On 2 November, 1958, Oswald was put aboard ship and sent back to the United States. His first overseas tour of duty was over but it would not be his last. A year later, he would embark on a second, more clandestine one.

11. OSWALD ‘DEFECTS’ TO THE USSR.

Oswald was granted compassionate leave, something that was very difficult to obtain under normal circumstances, in October 1959. Further, he did so on false pretences, namely that his mother was ill. All of this was organised by his CIA handlers.

He made his way to Helsinki, Finland, and from there to Moscow on 16th October.

The CIA knew that the KGB had bugged the US embassy in Moscow. When Oswald made it to the city, he surrendered his passport to Richard Snyder, a senior consular official at the embassy. Oswald told his audience – in particular the Russians who were monitoring the listening devices – that he was going to defect to the Soviets and tell them the secrets he had learned while serving as a marine. Rather than detain him, he was allowed walk out of the building and defect.

A cable from Snyder on 31st October, 1959, informed the CIA that Oswald had threatened to reveal his secrets to the Soviets.

In a 1978 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, James Wilcott revealed that it ‘was common knowledge in the Tokyo CIA station that Oswald worked for the agency’.

‘That’s true,’ Elsie Wilcott, his wife, confirmed. She had also worked at the CIA’s Tokyo station. ‘Right after the President was killed, people in the Tokyo station were talking openly about Oswald having gone to Russia for the CIA. Everyone was wondering how the agency was going to be able to keep the lid on Oswald. But I guess they did.’

In an article based on what he learned at the Tokyo Station, James Wilcott wrote that Oswald had been ‘trained [by the CIA] at Atsugi Naval Air Station, a plush super secret cover base for Tokyo Station special operations…Oswald was recruited from the military for the express purpose of becoming a double agent [on] assignment to the USSR … More than once, I was told something like “so-and-so was working on the Oswald project back in the late ’50s”.’

12. OSWALD’S 201 FILE.

According to the CIA’s Clandestine Services Handbook, a 201 file was opened on ‘subjects’ of interest to ‘CI (counterintelligence) investigation, prospective agents and sources, and members of groups and organizations of continuing interest.’

When interviewed by the HSCA in the late 1970’s, Richard Helms, Director of the CIA, from 1966 to 1973, admitted that the agency opened a 201 file on anyone who defected to Russia. At the request of the HSCA, the CIA carried out a search for Oswald’s 201 file.

When produced, it transpired that Oswald’s 201 file was created in December 1960 by Ann Egerter. She worked for the Special Investigations Group (SIG) in CIA Counterintelligence (CI). She answered to a man called James Jesus Angleton, a towering figure in the CIA. Egerter controlled the 201 file for the next three years. When the HSCA asked her to talk to it, she refused. It was only when Dan Hardaway of the HSCA threatened to subpoena her, that she relented. The verbatim record of her testimony was classified at the time.

Oswald purportedly ‘defected’ to Russia in October 1959. A file should have been opened immediately. Yet, a 201 file was not opened until 9th December, 1960.

Egerter was unable to provide an explanation but dropped a hint that Oswald was a CIA asset. Her HSCA interrogator said to her: ‘I hope you understand my questions are directed toward trying to find out what the purpose of the CI/SIG Office was and under what circumstances was the opening up of the 201 file [on Oswald]. I am given the impression that the purpose of CI/SIG was very limited, primarily to investigate Agency employees who for one reason or another might be under suspicion of espionage against the United States. Is that an accurate statement of the purpose of CI/SIG?’

Egerter replied: ‘Well, it is employees and also penetration, which is the same thing, of the Agency.’

These comments indicate that Egerter knew Oswald was a CIA ’employee’. If he was not, she could have made it clear he was not.

Richard Helms was also unable to explain why there had been a delay in opening Oswald’s 201 file. He told the HSCA: ‘I can’t imagine why it would have taken an entire year. I am amazed.’

When Egerter opened the 201 file, she recorded that Oswald had ‘defected to the USSR’ and had been a ‘radar operator’ but did not bother to mention that he had threatened to pass secrets to the Soviets. As a radar operator, Oswald would have observed the CIA’s U2 craft take off and return and thereby became familiar with at least some of its capabilities, such as time spent in the air on its spying missions.

It was also revealed that documents that should have been in the 201 file were missing. Helms claimed that ‘none of these documents were classified higher than confidential’ and that ‘because document dissemination records of a relatively low national security interest are retained for only a 5-year period, they were no longer in existence for the years 1959 to 1963′. This makes no sense since Oswald’s file was opened in December 1960 and hence if destroyed after five years, should have remained intact until December 1965, over two years after JFK’s death. It is impossible to conceive how the records of Oswald – an alleged Soviet defector and the man who was meant to have shot JFK in 1963 – could hardly have been classified as being of a ‘relatively low national security interest‘ and destroyed.

13. A TRAP FOR A MOLE: JAMES JESUS ANGLETON OF THE CIA WANTED TO SEE WHO WOULD ASK FOR OSWALD’S FILE.

James Jesus Angleton of the CIA’s Counter-intelligence department was convinced the KGB had a mole inside the agency. If Oswald was a false defector, Angleton was behind the machination. Angleton must have hoped the Soviet mole in the CIA would be asked by Moscow to find out if Oswald was a real defector. Angleton hoped the mole would go hunting for the CIA’s file on Oswald at Langley, Virginia, and thereby reveal himself. As there was no 201 file for the first year after the defection, a mole would have had to knock on many doors to see what he might find. The elaborate ruse, however, did not flush out a KGB mole.

There was a second level of intrigue involved in Oswald’s false defection. The CIA knew that the Soviets were aware of the U2 project. They had been monitoring U2 flights since at least 1958. Oswald, who was neither a pilot, technician nor an engineer, did not have a technical knowledge of the U2 craft to divulge anything significant to them. However, the CIA would be able to learn what the Soviets did not know about the abilities of the U2 craft by questions they might put to Oswald. If they had no questions, it would indicate that they had a spy, or group of spies, who had told them all they needed to know.

The Soviets shot down a U2 plane in 1960 flown by Gary Powers after Oswald’s move to the USSR.

14. OSWALD RETURNS TO AMERICA BUT – ALLEGEDLY – IS NOT INTERVIEWED BY THE CIA.

Oswald was allowed to return home in June 1962. If the CIA is to be believed – which it is not – he was not approached by anyone in authority to ask what he had done while in the USSR. If he was a genuine defector who had declared he would divulge U2 secrets to the Soviets, would they not have asked him, at the very least, if the Soviets had quizzed him about the U2 flights?

Was he not a traitor who should have been questioned thoroughly?

The downed U2 pilot, Gary Powers, suspected Oswald might have supplied the Soviets with information which led to his capture. Surely, Oswald should have been quizzed about this issue.

If, however, Oswald was a loyal CIA asset, not a traitor, he would have received a hero’s welcome, albeit one held in secret.

The CIA has undoubtedly been lying about this for decades. In reality, he would have been debriefed extensively by the CIA – but about what he had learned in the USSR. To this day, the CIA cannot disclose his debrief files as they would reveal his role as a CIA agent.

In 1976 James Angleton told the Church Committee in a secret session that the CIA had not spoken to Oswald.

Angleton’s (dishonest) evidence to the Church Committee, which was declassified in full in March 2025, can be read here:

15. ANGLETON: ‘THE VERY PEOPLE WHO ARE YOUR LAW MAKERS ARE THE ONES WHO DESTROY YOUR SECRETS.’

Angleton was involved in countless black operations in the West, including CIA plots against Western leaders including one directed against Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the UK.

He had a low opinion of JFK. At 6.27 minutes into the video interview below, Angleton talks about how certain unnamed politicians had betrayed the security of the West. He spoke of the problems that can arise when ‘the very people who are your law makers are the ones who destroy your secrets, the very people who profit from living in [a]  democratic institution are those who denigrated the word national security until it has no meaning.’

https://youtu.be/vTgneJQxCts?si=EeSGUU3QaUHiDEU9

In Angleton’s paranoid world, JFK undoubtedly fitted into this group of inept leaders, especially after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and the sacking of the director and deputy director of the CIA (described later.)

If, as E. Howard Hunt claimed, the CIA led the assassination plot against JFK, Angleton must have been at its very epicentre.

Angleton came to regret what he had done during his career, especially as he approached his death in 1987. David Talbot described Angleton’s last days in his book, ‘The Devil’s Chessboard’ thus:

‘But as he crept towards death in 1987, Angleton was less bound by the loyalty oaths of the past, and he began to talk about his career with a surprisingly raw clarity. By then, his lungs were cancer-ridden from a lifetime of incessant smoking, and his sunken cheeks and receding eyes gave him the look of fallen saint. The Catholic Angleton had always needed to believe in the holiness of his mission. And now, as he faced the final judgement, he felt compelled to make confessions, of sorts, to visiting journalists, including Joseph Trento. What he confessed was this. He had not been serving God, after all, when he followed Allen Dulles [director of the CIA, 1950-60]. He had been on a satanic quest.

‘These were some of James Jesus Angleton’s dying words. He delivered them between fits of calamitous coughing – lung-scraping seizures that still failed to break him of his cigarette habit – and soothing sips of tea. ‘Fundamentally, the founding fathers of U.S. intelligence were liars’, Angleton told Trento in an emotionless voice. ‘The better you lied and the more you betrayed, the more likely you would be promoted … Outside of their duplicity, the only thing they had in common was a desire for absolute power. I did things that, in looking back on my life, I regret. But I was part of it and loved being in it.”

‘He invoked the names of the high eminences who had run the CIA in his day – [Allen] Dulles, [Dick] Helms, [Frank] Wisner. These men were “the grand masters”, he said. ‘If you were in a room with them, you were in a room full of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell.”

‘Angleton took another slow sip from a steaming cup. ‘I guess I will see them there soon.’

16. MARINA OSWALD.

Oswald returned home with a Russian wife, Marina. She is still alive. She too believes he was a CIA agent. During their marriage she was aware of his spy ‘games’.

17. OSWALD ALLEGEDLY REMAINS A COMMUNIST BUT HANGS OUT WITH ANTI-COMMUNISTS.

Oswald maintained his cover as a communist after his return to the US and settled in Dallas. Although he professed to still be a communist, he introduced his wife into anti-Communist ‘white’ Russians circles after they reached the US. One of these was George Sergius de Mohrenschildt, a CIA asset. He allegedly committed suicide shortly before he was to testify before the HSCA.

18. RUTH PAINE, THE LADY WITH CIA CONNECTIONS WHOSE TAX RECORDS ARE CLASSIFIED. SHE IS POSSIBLY THE LAST LIVING JFK CONSPIRATOR.

Ruth Paine, a woman with connections to the CIA, moved into the Oswalds’ orbit in February 1963, when she was introduced to the couple, at a party hosted by George De Mohrenschildt.

Paine, now in her nineties, is still alive.

Shortly after the De Mohrenschildt party, Paine invited Marina Oswald to live in her home with her daughter.

Her sister, Sylvia Hyde Hoke, was directly employed by the CIA.

Meanwhile, her allegedly estranged husband, Michael Paine—a Bell Helicopter engineer—was also tied to intelligence operations. Michael Paine was acquainted with De Mohrenschildt, the CIA field agent who introduced the Paines to the Oswalds.

19. OSWALD GETS A JOB WITH A MILITARY CONTRACTOR.

Oswald could hardly have secured this job with a CV that showed he had defected to the USSR, unless he had some sort of clearance from the US government. He was dismissed by JSC on 1st April, 1963, and left on the 6th.

He soon moved to New Orleans.

20. OSWALD WORKED WITH GUY BANNISTER, A CIA ASSET, IN NEW ORLEANS.

While in New Orleans, Oswald continued to pose as a communist, in particular a supporter of the communist leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro.

If E. Howard Hunt was telling the truth, it means that Paine manipulated the Oswalds in the knowledge that LHO was going to be murdered after JFK was shot and her job was to act as the assassin of LHO’s character, all the while pretending to love and care for his two children (a second daughter was born on 20 October 1963) and wife.

Ruth Paine is still alive. The new Director of the FBI, Kash Patel, may yet order an inquiry into every aspect of Paine’s life.

For more on Paine and her family links to the CIA. See: https://www.jfkpaine.com/research/paine-family-connections-to-the-cia/

24. JFK IS ELECTED AND REFUSES TO INVADE CUBA.

Arthur Schleisinger, a key White House adviser, reviewed the part the CIA had been playing on the world stage for Kennedy. He prepared a 15 page memorandum in which he warned the president that the CIA had grown too powerful.

Schlesinger revealed that 47% of the political officers in U.S. embassies were controlled by the CIA.

Schlesinger’s memo ended with a proposal to give control of covert activities to the State Department and to split the CIA into two agencies reporting to separate undersecretaries of state.

A copy of the Schleisinger memo can be read or downloaded here:

26. JFK FIRES DULLES AND CABEL, NOVEMBER 1961.

The plot was egged on by Allen Dulles who was still fuming at his dismissal as CIA Director.

A number of cities were chosen for the assassination, including Chicago and Miami, as well as Dallas. Charles Cabell, who had been dismissed as Deputy Director of the CIA, was the brother of the Mayor of Dallas and in control of the local police force.

Vice President Lyndon Johnson, a deeply corrupt and immoral man, desperately wanted to become president but instead faced political disgrace due to corruption scandals that threatened to erupt at any time. JFK did not want him on his re-election ticket.

Johnson and Meyer got together to plot the murder of JFK whereafter Johnson would become president. He would then have all the necessary power to cover-up his crimes.

The assassination plot the CIA eventually settled upon involved shooting JFK in  broad daylight while placing the blame for it on the shoulders of Oswald, a man they could portray as a communist agent. Had the shooting gone ahead in Chicago or Miami, a different ‘patsy’ would have been framed.

29. J. EDGAR HOOVER.

The Director of the FBI joined the plot. He was a close friend of Lyndon Johnson. The pair lived across the road from each other and dined together once a week.

Hoover hated JFK’s brother Robert Kennedy, who was attorney-general, with a passion.

Hoover was a homosexual and was under the control of James Angleton of the CIA who could have destroyed him if he interfered with their plans. It is believed Angleton had incriminating pictures of Hoover.

Hoover, however, undoubtedly went along with the plot voluntarily, as he detested the Kennedy family.

30. OSWALD AND DAVID ATLEE PHILIPS.

David Atlee Philips of the CIA was a master of black propaganda and dirty tricks. He rose to become Chief of the CIA’s Western Hemisphere Division.

Anotonio Veciana of Alpha 66, an anti-Castro paramilitary organisation financed by the CIA, worked with Philips.

Alpha 66 was involved in two assassination attempts on Castro.

E. Howard Hunt revealed that Veciana and Philips were involved in the assassination of JFK.

Veciana had been hinting about his knowledge of CIA involvement for decades. In 1976, Veciana told the HSCA that at one meeting with Phillips in Dallas in  late-August or September 1963, he arrived and saw Philips (whom he knew as ‘Bishop’) talking to Oswald.

In 2013, Veciana opened up a little bit more. He gave interviews saying that he believed that the assassination of JFK was perpetrated by senior US military and intelligence officials. 

Hunt’s relationship with David Philips began during a CIA regime change plot in Guatemala in 1954. They also worked together during the Bay of Pigs operation in 1961.  

David Philips had a brother called James. James suspected that David had been involved in the JFK murder. Larry Hancock, author of ‘Someone Would Have Talked’, described how, ‘As David was dying of lung cancer, he called his brother.  Even at this point there was apparently no reconciliation between the two men.  James asked David pointedly, “Were you in Dallas that day?” David answered “Yes” and James hung up the phone on him.’

David Philips told Kevin Walsh, a former investigator with the HSCA: ‘My final take on the assassination is there was a conspiracy, likely including American intelligence officers.’

31. DAVID PHILIPS AND THE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE.

Another link between Oswald and David A. Philips was the Fair Play for Cuba committee (FPFC).

Oswald set up a branch of the FPFC committee in New Orleans. He distributed FPFC leaflets on the streets of New Orleans, some of which had Guy Bannister’s address stamped on them.

At the same time Philips was overseeing an operation to penetrate and monitor the FPFC committee. The (badly preserved) CIA document in the next picture was one of those the CIA tried to prevent Donald Trump releasing. It finally saw the light of day in March 2025. On its face it is rather innocuous document. The CIA, however, felt the connection between Philips and CIA activity surrounding the FPFC group a secret worth preserving for over 60 years.

32. OSWALD KNEW JACK RUBY, A MEMBER OF THE MAFIA FROM CHICAGO, WHO WAS WORKING WITH THE CIA.

Jack Ruby was a night club owner, drug peddler and gun runner. He was a member of the Chicago mafia was sent to Dallas to oversee mafia activities in the city.

The CIA was working with various wings of the mafia including Sam Giancana’s outfit in Chicago, of which Ruby was a part.

The Mafia has long been suspected of complicity in the JFK assassination, something underlined by the close relationship the CIA had with the mafia in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The CIA used the mafia in a number of attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro in Cuba.

Another of those involved was Carlos Marchello the mafia boss in New Orleans.

The HSCA determined that there was evidence of ‘credible associations relating both Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby to figures having a relationship, albeit tenuous, with Marcello’s crime family or organization’. The HSCA report stated: ‘The committee found that Marcello had the motive, means and opportunity to have President John F. Kennedy assassinated, though it was unable to establish direct evidence of Marcello’s complicity’.

Sam Giancana’s bother Chuck, and nephew, Sam Giancana, published a book called ‘Double Cross’, in 1993, in which they revealed that Sam Giancana had boasted that the CIA had killed JFK with assistance from the mafia. He also revealed that the CIA and the mafia had entered into a partnership and carried out joint enterprises overseas.

34. THE CIA MONITORED OSWALD’S POST.

The CIA claimed that it had no interest in Oswald for decades. This was a lie. In July 2023, declassified files showed that the CIA assigned a man called Reubon Efron to read his post.

Efron, originally from Lithuania, was a fluent Russian speaker. This surveillance indicates caution on the part of the CIA that Oswald might have been recruited by the Soviets during his years in Russia.

Angleton was obsessed to the point of near paranoia about moles and traitors.

In addition, Efron was able to monitor any post sent to Marina Oswald. Her uncle, Ilya Prusakov, with whom she had lived in Minsk, was a colonel in the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Efron was also in a position to ascertain if any of Oswald’s correspondents were aware he was a CIA agent. After he was chosen to be the fall guy for the JFK hit, this sort of information became of paramount importance to the anti-JFK plotters who needed bury this fact.

35. THE MEXICAN MANOEUVRE, SEPTEMBER 1963.

The CIA chose Oswald to take the blame for the JFK assassination in the event it would take place in Dallas.

David Atlee Phillips was assigned to Mexico City in the fall of 1963.

In September 1963, Philips, a black propaganda and dirty tricks expert, arranged for a CIA operative to go to Mexico in the pretence he was Oswald. The imposter arrived on the 27th and stayed for approximately six days. He visited the Russian and Cuban embassies.

The real Oswald was probably in Florida.

The CIA eventually had to produce photographs of the man they claimed was Oswald, but he looked nothing like him.

According to embassy officials who dealt with the man presenting himself as ‘Oswald’, on the phone, and in person, his Russian was defective. Yet, the real Oswald spoke fluent Russian.

The CIA had the Mexican security police torture Sylvia Duran, a woman who worked at the Cuban embassy to say that she saw Oswald at the Cuban embassy.

On Monday, 25th November, 1963, a mere three days after the assassination, the Deputy Attorney-General of the US, Nicholas Katzenbach, issued a memo stating that it was imperative to shut down the JFK assassination investigation immediately, and convince the American people that Kennedy had been killed by one man, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Even a preliminary investigation into a presidential assassination would have taken months. Katzenbach feared the Soviets were responsible and wanted to avoid a nuclear war.

J. Edgar Hoover would ensure that his investigators pursued evidence that indicated Oswald was a lone assassin. All evidence to the contrary was to be buried.

37. JANE ROMAN, TOP AIDE TO JAMES JESUS ANGLETON, ADMITTED SHE TOLD LIES TO THE CIA MEXICO STATION ABOUT OSWALD.

Obviously, not everyone in the CIA was party to the anti-JFK plot. Those who were not, were told lies where their work overlapped with the actions of the conspirators.

Jane Roman, an aide to James Jesus Angleton, told her colleagues lies about Oswald.

Roman knew about Oswald’s activities in New Orleans, including the fact he had been arrested after a scuffle with anti-Castro activists. She sent a report to the FBI on 4th October describing Oswald’s activities. Four days later, the CIA staff in Mexico sent a telegram to CIA HQ, at Langley, about the visit to the embassies by a man calling himself Oswald, i.e., the imposter. It read: ‘AMERICAN MALE WHO SPOKE BROKEN RUSSIAN SAID HIS NAME LEE OSWALD.’ Roman responded in a cable dated 10th October pretending the CIA had lost sight of Oswald after he had defected to Russia.

Authors John Newman and Jefferson Morley spoke to Roman before her death in 2007. She was 78 at the time and perfectly lucid.

Roman eventually acknowledged her sleight of hand: ‘Yeah, I mean, I’m signing off on something that I know isn’t true.’

Newman asked if this suggested ‘some sort of operational interest in Oswald’s file?’

Roman replied: ‘Well, to me, it’s indicative of a keen interest in Oswald, held very closely on the need-to-know basis’. She speculated that there had been an ‘operational reason’ for the lie to the CIA in Mexico. She said she was not privy to whatever ‘hanky-panky’ may have been taken place. Obviously, her boss, Angleton, was not only aware but was the author of the machination.

Morley was astonished: ‘John and I looked at each other and said, “Oh my fucking God”‘ because they had extracted an acknowledgment that Angleton and other senior CIA officers had a highly secret covert operational interest in Oswald that they had hidden from their colleagues in Mexico.’

One person in Mexico knew full well what was afoot, David Atlee Philips. He and Angleton were setting Oswald up as a fall guy.

Author Dick Russell who investigated the case, discovered that Nagell feared that he was going to be used as a patsy. He was arrested and held in custody until after the JFK assassination.

39. THE CHICAGO PLOT, 2 NOVEMBER 1963.

JFK was scheduled to fly into Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on
Saturday November 2 1963, to attend the annual Army-Air Force football game at Soldier Field.

The Chicago branch of the Secret Service received a warning that four sharpshooters would try to assassinate JFK as his motorcade drove to the stadium. The plot, which was foiled, was remarkably similar to the one which would unfold in Dallas the following November.

The Chicago Secret Service found
four rifles with telescopic sights
inside a rented apartment and took
two of four suspects into custody.

Kennedy’s trip was cancelled in response.

The two suspects were released.

A patsy was lined up to take the blame for the shooting. His name was Thomas Arthur Vallee, a Korean War veteran. Vallee had found employment as a printer in one of the tall building that overlooked Kenndy’s planned route to Soldier Field. Oswald also secured a job overlooking JFK’s route in Dallas.

Like Oswald, Vallee was a former Marine. He had served at the CIA’s U2 base at Camp Otsu, Japan.

Valee had trained Cuban exiles. There are witnesses who say Oswald also trained Cuban exiles.

Vallee had a view of JFK’s route from his window at work, just like Oswald would have in Dallas. His view of JFK’s presidential limousine was three levels lower than Oswald’s view.

The motorcade in Chicago was scheduled to make a sharp turn right in front of Vallee’s building, thereby slowing Kennedy’s car to a crawl, again just like Dallas.

40. THE MIAMI PLOT, 9 NOVEMBER 1963.

On 9th November, 1963, two weeks before JFK was murdered, Joseph Milteer, a right-wing extremist, spoke to a police informant called William Somerset, in a Miami hotel room. Somerset recorded the conversation covertly.

Milteer was a friend of Guy Bannister and involved in a number of extreme right-wing groups. Milteer knew that JFK was a target of assassins. He said that the murder plot ‘was in the working’ and would be carried out ‘from an office building with a high-powered rifle’. The gun would be one that could be ‘disassembled’ to get it into the building and the police would ‘pick someone up within hours if anything like that happened just to throw the public off’.

Milteer stated that ‘the Cubans’ were involved in the plot to shoot Kennedy in Miami.

The secret tape recording was turned over to the FBI almost immediately. JFK was due to visit the city on 18th November. Extra security was arranged and the visit went off without an incident.

Milteer’s tape recorded remarks can be heard by clicking the link/graphic in the next paragraph:

A man bearing a remarkable resemblance to Milteer was photographed in Dealey Plaza on 22nd November, the day Kennedy was shot dead.

The patsy for the Miami hit appears to have been Gilbert Policarpo Lopez, a  Cuban exile. Like Oswald, he had links to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, had ties to Russia and even an unusual trip to Mexico City.

The Miami plot was foiled by the Miami Police, who passed details to the FBI and the Secret Service. Incredibly, no action was taken to warn the president. The Secret Service agents who were planning Kennedy’s trip to Dallas claimed they were not informed.

41. THE 180 PAGE DOSSIER ON ANGLETON’S DESK THE WEEK BEFORE JFK WAS SHOT.

If the Official narrative is to be believed, the CIA had no interest in Oswald, no idea where he was, or what he was up to, in the months before JFK was shot.

In reality, Angleton, knew about everything Oswald had done since November 1959, if not long, long before that. Angleton was ‘monitoring his politics, his personal life, his foreign travels, his contacts’, according to Angleton’s biographer, Jefferson Morley, citing government documents that were finally released in March 2025.

42. EUGENE B DINKIN, MONITORS THE OAS AND PREDICTS THAT JFK WILL BE ASSASSINATED ON 22 NOVEMBER 1963.

The OAS was a paramilitary organisation made up of retired and serving French soldiers who opposed France’s withdrawal from Algeria. Eugene B. Dinkin, a US Army cryptographer, was able to break into their transmissions. This offers a compelling explanation for his prediction that JFK would be shot on 22 November by a ‘communist’ or ‘negro’. He recorded this prediction in a report prior to the assassination and spoke to an array of journalists about it.

JFK expert Mark Groubert believes the OAS may have hacked into the CIA’s communication network in Europe and picked up on the date from this source.

The fact that the CIA’s ZR/RIFLE assassination programme (discussed later) employed Corsican hit men would have been of great interest to the OAS.

The CIA and the OAS also shared a common interest in toppling President Charles de Gaulle, another factor that would have prompted them to monitor each other.

Dinkin’s duties also required him to analyse certain publications for subliminal messaging. He cited this as the basis – in part at least – for his prediction that JFK was going to be assassinated on 22 November. However, that could have been a ruse to conceal his true source of knowledge, i.e., the OAS cables he intercepted. It would have been necessary to have concealed his knowledge of the OAS when he made contact with journalists and diplomats in Geneva prior to the assassination and told them about the forthcoming assassination of JFK.

In any event, a report submitted by Dinkin about the assassination caused alarm in the US, so much so that Lyndon Johnson flew on Air Force 2 to Europe to suppress the findings made by Dinkin.

Dinkin was later taken to a mental institution where he was forced to say he had mental difficulties.

The Dinkin case is one of many explored in a series of broadcasts about the JFK assassination hosted by Eric Hunley and the hugely entertaining – yet lethally knowledgeable – Mr. Groubert. Please follow the link above this paragraph to see their take on the Dinkin case.

43. ROSE CHERAMI WARNED OF THE LOOOMING ASSASSINATON

Rose Cherami was a prostitute and drug mule in November 1963. Earlier, she had worked as a stripper at Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club in Dallas. She was 34.

Two days before the JFK murder she participated on a Florida-to-Texas heroin run for Ruby with two of Ruby’s henchmen.

When the car she was travelling in reached rural Louisiana, a violent drunken argument broke out between her and the two men. It took place in public, outside a seedy brothel. The gang drove off but the row continued. The two men threw Cherami from the vehicle near Eunice.

She was taken to hospital where she told a Louisiana State Police officer, Lt. Francis Fruge, that she had been going to Dallas to pick up cash for eight kilos of heroin she’d been assigned to purchase in Houston. She proceeded to say that the two men were part of a plot to kill JFK. She repeated her prediction of a forthcoming assassination to her doctors and nurses.

Lt. Fruge told the HSCA that Cherami seemed ‘quite lucid’ during her conversations with him.

44. WHAT LYNDON JOHNSON TOLD HIS MISTRESS, MADELINE BROWNE IN THE RUN UP TO THE ASSASSINATION.

In the immediate run up to the assassination, Johnson told his mistress, Madeline Browne, that, shortly, the Kennedy brothers would never ’embarrass’ him again.

On another occasion, she asked him, ‘Lyndon, you’ve got to tell me. You’ve got to talk to me. Are you – were you – involved with Kennedy’s death?’ Finally, he said, ‘You know the people that I known … the oil people and the CIA … They did it.’

A short video of Browne’s account of this can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZlxu7JV34g

The longer version of Browne’s account can be found here:

45. LYNDON JOHNSON WANTED TO PUT HIS ARCH POLITICAL ENEMY IN JFK’S LIMOUSINE

Kennedy went to Texas at the insistence of Lyndon Johnson to heal a rift in the Democratic Party.

The Governor of Texas was John Connally, a supporter of Lyndon Johnson. Connolly was also Johnson’s former political administrative assistant. Connolly insisted that JFK’s cavalcade divert through the Dealy Plaza kill zone. When Kennedy’s advance preparation point man objected to the plan, Connolly told him that there would be no cavalcade unless it went through the plaza.

Connolly was scheduled to travel in the same vehicle as Kennedy. The night before the assassination, Johnson attempted to replace Connolly with his arch political enemy, Senator Ralph Yarborough. The ploy failed. Connolly was wounded the next day in the car.

Metal fragments from the bullets fired at the vehicle lodged in Connolly’s body. Each fragment was allegedly deposited as the ‘magic bullet’ passed through Connolly’s body. Yet, the ‘magic bullet’ was recovered in a pristine condition.

The fragments, on their own, prove Oswald could not acted alone as it would have been impossible – by all accounts – – even that of the Warren Commission – for Oswald to have discharged more than three bullets.

46. THE CORSCIAN CONNECTION.

A Corsican mafiosi called Christian David claimed he was approached by Marseilles Mafia boss, Antoine Guerini, to organise a shooting team to kill Kennedy.

David claimed that after he turned it down, Lucien Sarti, another Corsican gangster, accepted the contract.

47. A RIGHT HAND TURN DESIGNED TO SLOW DOWN JFK’s VEHICLE

On the morning of Monday November 18, 62-year-old Forrest Sorrels, the man in charge of the Secret Service detail in Dallas, was instructed by Agent Winston Lawson, to make a crucial change to the route JFK would take. Lawson received the order from his superiors in Washington.

There was a route through Dealy Plaza that could have avoided a sharp left hand turn. The orders from Washington ensured the motorcade would turn right on to Dealey Plaza and then take an abrupt left turn, a change that would dramatically reduce the speed of JFK’s vehicle between the Texas School Book Depository building – where Oswald worked – and a stockade fence at the top of a grassy knoll peering down on to the plaza.

The running board on JFK’s vehicle was not in place to allow his Secret Service bodyguards create a human shield around him when they attack began.)

There was no vehicle in front of him in the motorcade, something that would have made it more difficult for the shooter on the grassy knoll to pick out his shot.

49. THE FLATBED TRUCK FOR THE PRESS IS CANCELLED AT THE LAST MOMENT.

On 22nd November, 1963, Lyndon Johnson kicked up a fuss demanding that Jackie Kennedy ride in his limousine through Dallas. Johnson was fond of Jackie and did not want her killed or injured during the forthcoming attack on her husband. In the event, she travelled with JFK.

Johnson travelled a few cars behind the Kennedys’ vehicle. Photographs show him hunching down as the cavalcade enters the kill zone. He was a tall man, a lot taller than his wife. Yet, in all the pictures taken, he has sunk well below her level.

Next, JFK was shot by four or five marksmen in Dealey Plaza. The most devastating shot was pulled by an assassin behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll. Witnesses on both sides of the fence stated that shots were discharged from behind it.

The shocking 313rd frame of the Zapruder film reveals a shot from the front and right of Kennedy. It can only have come from behind the picket fence. It strikes his head and hurls JFK backwards and to the left. A shot from Oswald’s alleged ‘sniper’s nest’ in the Book Depository – which was now behind JFK – would have created the opposite momentum.

Mary Moorman took a polaroid picture at the exact moment Kennedy was struck in the front of his head. The picture can be seen above. The photograph has been blown up and enhanced (see below). Some researchers believe it is possible to discern the outline of a man shooting at Kennedy. He has become known as the ‘Badgeman’ as he appears to have a badge and looks like a Dallas police officer. A man in a hard hat stands next to him.

51. JFK’s VEHICLE SLOWED TO A CRAWL AFTER THE SHOOTING BEGAN.

The Secret Service driver of JFK’s limousine had a clear road ahead of him and a powerful engine with which to roar away from the shooting. Instead, he slowed down to a crawl in front of the grassy knoll thereby allowing the Corsican hit man behind the fence plenty of time to pick out his shot.

The doctors were also of the view that a second shot – again from the front – had hit Kennedy in the throat.

All of this establishes that Oswald could not have been a lone gunman.

For a moment, a man held the public back from the grassy knoll by producing a Secret Service identity card. These witnesses had heard shots from behind the fence. Some had seen and smelt gunshots. The Secret Service was the organisation responsible for protecting the life of the President. It was subsequently established that the man was an imposter. The service had not posted anyone at the location.

Sam Holland was one of the witnesses who saw smoke from behind the fence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaCwrmoa3sQ

Lee Bowers, a railroad controller, witnessed men behind the fence from a rail control tower, before and after the shooting. After it, they placed items in the rear of a vehicle and left the car park behind the knoll. They were able to get away quickly without interruption with the aid of the Secret Service imposter.

Overall, there is a substantial amount of evidence that more than three shots were discharged.

The official narrative is that Oswald fired from the so-called ‘sniper’s nest’ in the Book Depository. While shots were undoubtedly discharged from that building, they were part of a triangulation of gunfire, possibly by two marksmen in the Depository, others in the Daltex building and another on the grassy embankment or knoll. All told, there were at least three teams around the kill zone including Cubans and other mafia hitmen.

The Warren Commission had to engage in science fiction to produce an account implicating Oswald as a lone gunman. It included a fantastic and impossible trajectory taken by the so-called ‘magic bullet’. This projectile allegedly managed to go through Kennedy and one of the other passengers, Governor John Connally, in a manner that defied science. Connally was seated in front of JFK. The bullet allegedly executed a near 90 degree turn in mid air. Having gone through the two men, it exited intact without any blemish and was found on Connally’s hospital stretcher at Parkland. Pieces of metal from this bullet lodged in Connally’s body. How the bullet was able to regrow its casing has yet to be explained by science and, of course, never will be. The ‘magic bullet’ theory is a fantasy. There were multiple shooters in Dealey Plaza, not one man. A number of bullets fired by them caused the damage the Warren Commission attributed to the single ‘magic bullet’.

In addition, Landis was clear that he left the bullet on JFK’s gurney. The official narrative had been that it was found on Connolly’s gurney.

Another bullet tore into a piece of cement on a kerb in Dealy Plaza.

Yet another pierced the windscreen of JFK’s vehicle (as described above).

It would have been physically impossible for Oswald to have discharged five shots.

There have to have been more than one shooter in Dealy Plaza.

60. NO TRACE OF GUNPOWDER ON OSWALD’s CHEEKS

61. ROBERT KENNEDY SUSPECTED THE CIA KILLED HIS BROTHER FROM THE OUTSET.

On the afternoon of 22nd November, Robert Kennedy (RFK) summoned the director of the CIA, John McCone, to his home to ask ‘if they’ — the CIA — ‘had killed my brother,’ Kennedy revealed later. McCone said they had not.

RFK did not believe the rumours being circulated about Oswald being connected to the Soviets. He later sent a message to the Soviet embassy assuring them of his belief in their innocence.

RFK was Attorney-General but was out of circulation after the murder of his brother. Three days after the shooting, Nicholas Katzenbach, his deputy, issued the memo stipulating that the FBI was to conclude Oswald was the shooter.

RFK wasn’t the only person close to Kennedy who suspected a palace coup. On the return flight from Dallas to Washington, Kennedy’s secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, wrote down the people she suspected were behind the plot. Lyndon Johnson headed the list. A number of right wing organisations and Teamster, Jimmy Hoffa, featured underneath him, including the ‘CIA in Cuban fiasco’.

Lincoln’s suspicions about Johnson emanated from the fact she knew Kennedy planned to ditch Johnson as vice president. She was aware Kennedy was considering Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina as Johnson’s replacement.

62. DAVID MORALES, CIA ASSASSIN.

E. Howard Hunt also named David Morales, Chief of Operations at the CIA’s JMWAVE station in Miami, as part of the kill team in Dallas.

Morales was a veteran CIA assassin.

Morales later told a number of his friends about his involvement in the slaying.

Many researchers believe Morales was on the 6th floor of the Book Depository during the shooting.

The Depository assassins escaped from the building before the police arrived.

After the hit, Lucien Sarti’s team also escaped successfully. They laid low for two weeks and then left the US through Canada.

Hurt had served as a Special Agent of U.S. Army Counterintelligence during World War II. When contacted by Dr Grover B. Proctor in 1980, ‘Mr. Hurt acknowledged this wartime service to me, but denied ever having been anything other than an insurance investigator and an employee of the State of North Carolina since the war.’ For further details see:

http://groverproctor.us/jfk/jfk80.html

66. GARY UNDERHILL, A CIA INSIDER, BLOWS THE WHISTLE AND IS FOUND SHOT DEAD A FEW MONTHS LATER.

The CIA withheld a memo on Gary Underhill until March 2025 when it was finally revealed. What did they have to hide?

Underhill was born in Brooklyn on 7th August, 1915. He graduated from Harvard in 1937. During WW2 he served with the Military Intelligence Service (6 July 1943 to May 1946). After leaving the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), he worked on specific projects for the CIA. He was also military affairs editor for Life Magazine, which meant he had ready access to the media.

After the assassination of JFK, Underhill told his friend, Charlene Fitsimmons, that he was convinced that JFK had been killed by members of the CIA. He also said: ‘Oswald is a patsy. They set him up. It’s too much. The bastards have done something outrageous. They’ve killed the President! I’ve been listening and hearing things. I couldn’t believe they’d get away with it, but they did!’

Underhill believed there was a connection to the CIA’s ‘Executive Action’ assassination programme and its use of Cuban paramilitaries in the hit. “They tried it in Cuba and they couldn’t get away with it. Right after the Bay of Pigs,’ he revealed. ‘But Kennedy wouldn’t let them do it. And now he’d gotten wind of this and he was really going to blow the whistle on them. And they killed him!’

Underhill told friends that he feared for his life: ‘I know who they are. That’s the problem. They know I know. That’s why I’m here. I can’t stay in New York.’

The public was led to believe that Ruby was an ordinary citizen who shot Oswald to spare Jackie Kennedy the trauma of a trial.

71. RUBY REVEALS LYNDON JOHNSON WAS BEHIND THE JFK ASSASSINATION.

Jack Ruby later indicated Lyndon Johnson was behind JFK’s assassination. Ruby told TV reporters: ‘When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president, there never would have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy.’ A reporter asked him to explain what he meant and he replied: ‘Well, your answer is the man in office now [Lyndon Johnson].’

Listen to Ruby’s comments about Johnson here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8W-YBa4570

72. JOHNSON WARNS OF NUCLEAR WAR AND 40,000,000 US DEATHS IF OSWALD IS NOT PORTRAYED BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE AS A LONE ASSASSIN.

Johnson had become president. Declassified National Archives of Oval Office recordings reveal that Johnson told Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia, and Warren, about unverified rumours that Soviet or Cuban officials, were behind JFK’s death, and might push the United States into a war that could ‘kill 40 million Americans in an hour’.

Johnson handpicked Russell and others to serve on the forthcoming presidential commission. He told Russell: ‘I can’t arrest you and I’m not going to put the FBI on you but you’re goddamned sure going to serve.’ Russel did.

Russell was a founder and leader of the conservative coalition that dominated Congress from 1937 to 1963, and later became the most senior member of the Senate. He was a racist and opponent of JFK. Russell led Southern opposition to the civil rights movement.

Warren didn’t want to serve either. The declassified records refer to Johnson’s account of how Warren ‘started crying’ when Johnson refused to let him off the hook in a face-to-face meeting in the Oval Office. Warren knew he was going to have to break his oath, tell lies, mislead the public and, ultimately, destroy his reputation. He relented and agreed to chair the inquiry.

Allen Dulles, the former Director of the CIA and mastermind of the plot to kill Kennedy, was also appointed.

Gerald Ford, who later served as vice president to Richard Nixon, also served on the committee. After Nixon resigned, Ford became president.

73. THE COMMISSION THAT IGNORED ALL THE EVIDENCE, 1964-65.

Allen Dulles was appointed by Johnson to control the activities of what now became the Warren Commission. Its task was to determine that Oswald was a lone nut who killed Kennedy.

Dr. Robert McClelland, who treated JFK at Parkland Hospital, stated Arlen Specter, a lawyer for the Commission, told him the Commission had received statements from witnesses on the triple overpass confirming the shots from the grassy knoll, i.e., to the front of JFK, but it did not wish to pursue that line.

Dr McClelland was one of those who knew JFK had been struck by a bullet from the front from his wounds. See:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=356&v=lQ435lMaCng&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F&feature=emb_logo

Instead, Specter concocted the ‘magic bullet’ theory for the Commission and the panel ignored all the medical evidence to the contrary.

Another Parkland doctor, Ron Jones, revealed that Specter that told him: ‘We have people who would testify that they saw somebody shoot the President from the front, but we don’t want to interview them and I don’t want you saying anything about that either.’

Allen Dulles made sure the Commission was kept in the dark. Warren Commission counsel, and later judge, Burt Griffin said: ‘[We were] betrayed because the CIA and FBI deliberately misled us.’

The photographs from the JFK autopsy were withheld from the Warren Commission lest the honest members of it realise that shots were discharged from in front of JFK

The group determined in 1964 that Oswald had acted alone.

74. THE RING ON OSWALD’S FINGER MOVES ABOUT IN SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS OSWALD SAID WERE FAKES.

The footage in this tweet is worth a thousand words. The ‘backyard’ photos are not authentic. The Warren Commission, however, treated them as such. They were used to portray Oswald as a gun nut.

https://twitter.com/okc_facts/status/1786793718449906113?t=rDIif5VMW_HGF6qJt5scvQ&s=19

75. MARINA OSWALD IS TOLD SHE WILL BE SENT BACK TO RUSSIA AND HER CHILDREN PLACED IN CARE UNLESS SHE TELLS THE PRESS AND WARREN COMMISSION LIES ABOUT HER HUSAND.

Marina Oswald was taken away by the FBI. She was put up in a motel and held in isolation. She was coerced into telling lies to the Warren Commission. She was told that she would be deported and her children placed into care unless she agreed with a narrative which the FBI wrote for her. It portrayed Oswald as a violent man capable of killing JFK.

76. OSWALD’S MARINE COMMANDER TELLS THE PRESS HE WAS RECRUITED BY THE CIA. A MEMO ON THE MATTER WAS CONCEALED UNTIL MARCH 2025.

A United Press International (UPI) reporter spoke to Oswald’s former marine commander who told him that Oswald had been recruited by the CIA in the 1950s.

The UPI reporter gave the CIA press office an opportunity to respond which they declined. The story caused a flurry inside the agency. The CIA Chief of Station (COS) in Japan became involved in the suppression of the article. The ploy to kill it was to pretend to the reporter that this was ‘old news’ that had already appeared in print. The chance of this succeeding was described in a memo which the CIA concealed until March 2025 as a ‘long shot’.

The CIA’s fear was that if they did not suppress the story that journalists in Japan would pursue the story.

If this was nonsense, why did the CIA go to all this effort? Why did they conceal the memo which addressed the issue until March 2025?

77. DID JOHNNY CARSON ATTACK GARRISON BECAUSE THE FBI KNEW HE WAS A SEX PEST? A SEX TAPE OF CARSON MASTURBATING ALSO EXISTS.

Johnny Carson, host of The Tonight Show, was the king of American TV in the 1960s and beyond. Behind the scenes, he was a drunk and a sexual predator who treated his family cruelly. He had multiple affairs, all of which were undoubtedly monitored by the FBI. Edgar J. Hoover was obsessed with the sex lives of Hollywood celebrities.

At one stage, Carson invested in a property development in Texas as a ruse to get away from Los Angeles to visit one of his mistresses who lived there.

He once confided to his lawyer, Henry Bushkin: ‘I can’t quit smoking and I get drunk every night and I chase all the pussy I can get. I’m shitty in the marriage department. Make sure you understand this.’

He was married four times.

He had three sons, all from his first marriage, one of whom,  Rick suffered from mental health problems. Rick ended up committed in a mental hospital. Carson refused to visit him.

He was a sexual predator who not only abused those who worked with him but also his guests. Sally Field, the double Oscar winning actress, appeared on the Watch What Happens Live show with Andy Cohen, and discussed her experiences with Carson. When Cohen asked how she would describe the experience, she replied: ‘The octopus and the reluctant little guppy.’ Cohen then clarified the nature of the encounter by adding:  ‘He was all hands with you.’

In 2014, a sex tape of Carson emerged. It showed a younger Carson with dark hair, probably from the early 1970s. It commenced with Carson masturbating by a swimming pool and then showed a woman with a bouffant hairdo felating him.  This was followed by a 20-minute sex scene in a bedroom. See this TMZ clip which discusses the tape:

The tape was offered to his estate, which refused to purchase it, and threatened to sue if it was released. For legal reasons, the seller could then only offer it for private collectors, not companies. Some stills from the tape went into circulation. 

These facts probably represent only a glimpse at the nasty secrets that Carson concealed from his adoring public.

It was common practice by the FBI, CIA and Mafia to record the intimate private lives of those they wanted to control. This was – and is still – called the collection of ‘kompromat’.

When Jim Garrison investigated the JFK case,  probing the activities of David Ferrie, Guy Bannister, Jack Ruby and others and put CIA asset Clay Shaw on trial for conspiracy to murder JFK, Carson attempted to undermine Garrison. Garrison appeared on The Tonight Show on 31 January 1968. Garrison blamed the CIA  for the assassination.

Carson did not give Garrison a fair hearing and stated that the notion of a conspiracy was a ‘fairy tale’.

During the Watergate scandal Richard Nixon tried to blackmail the CIA into taking the blame for the ‘Plumbers’ break-in at the Democrats HQ, at the Watergate building. Nixon knew the CIA had killed Kennedy and that E. Howard Hunt, who was now working for him, could reveal the whole story.

Frank Sturgis, whom Hunt named in 2004 as part of the JFK plot, was one of the Watergate burglars caught during the Watergate break-in.

Nixon had a recording facility in his Oval Office. He was recorded telling members of his inner circle on that:

We protected [Richard] Helms [of the CIA] from one hell of a lot of things .. You open that scab there’s a hell of a lot of things, and we just feel that it would be very detrimental to have this thing go any further. This involves these Cubans, [E Howard] Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky that we have nothing to do with ourselves.

Nixon instructed his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, to tell Helms to halt the FBI’s probe into the Watergate break-in by claiming it as a CIA operation. A tape recorder in his office captured Nixon’s words:

Say, ‘Look, the problem is that this will open the whole, the whole Bay of Pigs thing, and the President just feels that, ah, without going into the details … don’t, don’t lie to them to the e0xtent to say there is no involvement, but just say this is sort of a comedy of errors, bizarre, without getting into it, the President believes that it is going to open the whole Bay of Pigs thing up again.’

Nixon’s instructions can be heard here: https://youtu.be/i-y2KQvvYtg?si=prRWaO_D3_vkRjLQ

In his memoirs, Haldeman disclosed how, when he saw Helms and brought up the Bay of Pigs, the CIA chief gripped the arms of his chair, leaned forward and shouted: ‘The Bay of Pigs has nothing to do with this! I have no concern about the Bay of Pigs.’ Haldeman said he was ‘absolutely shocked by Helms’s violent reaction‘.

Clearly, Nixon was not referring to the CIA’s sponsorship of the Bay of Pigs invasion since the world knew about the agency’s complicity in it. For a start, JFK had sacked Dulles and Cabell after it.

Nixon was being more subtle.

Haldeman wrote:

It seems that in all those Nixon references to the Bay of Pigs, he was actually referring to the Kennedy assassination. (Interestingly, an investigation of the Kennedy assassination was a project I suggested when I first entered the White House. Now I felt we would be in a position to get all the facts. But Nixon turned me down.)

John Ehrlichman, another Nixon staffer, attended the encounter. Helms, he revealed later, ‘yelled like a scalded cat’.

Bradlee became editor of the Washington Post and was in charge of it when Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein brought the Watergate scandal to the attention of the public. Woodward had high level sources in the FBI including Mark Felt (‘Deep Throat’).

At no stage did Bradlee order an inquiry into the JFK assassination despite all the resources at his disposal including Woodward and Bernstein. Towards the end of his life, Bradlee claim that this was one of his regrets.

Mary Meyer was Bradlee’s sister-in-law. Meyer was the mistress of JFK and the former wife of Cord Meyer of the CIA. She was murdered in 1964. She left a diary behind her. Bradlee went to her house to see if he could find it. When he got there he found that his friend James Jesus Angleton of the CIA was present and had already confiscated it. Bradlee let him take it and said nothing at the time.

Bradlee may simply have been an opportunist or had dark secrets to hide to behave in such an unethical manner. As a younger man he was a noted womaniser. The FBI and CIA may have had sexual ‘kompromat’ on him. Angleton in particular was a sexual blackmailer.

It would require a book all of its own to provide even a glimpse at the corruption of the US media over the decades since the assassination of JFK. It is anybody’s guess how much control was exerted over these people because of the existence of kompromat about them.

Nixon also told Stone that the “Warren Commission was the biggest goddamn hoax in American history”.

Priscilla Johnson McMillen wrote a book about Lee and Marina Oswald which portrayed LHO as a likely assassin of the president. It was published in 1977. Priscilla Johnson McMillen was a CIA asset. One of the declassified 2025 CIA files establishes her status as an employee of the Agency. Her book, an international bestseller, cemented the image of Oswald as JFK’s assassins in the eyes of many.

Joannides was the CIA officer who dealt with the HSCA as ‘Walter D. Newby’ in respect of the DRE. He lied to the HSCA on an industrial level. Joannides even told them that the identity of the DRE’s case officer in 1963 – Joannides himself – could not be determined.

When Jefferson Morley revealed this to Robert Blakey, the head of the HSCA, Blakey ‘went ballistic’. Blakey said: ‘They flat-out lied to me about who he was and what he was up to.’

The 2025 files confirmed Blahut was a CIA asset.

He maintained he became a ‘bench warmer’ in the operation.

He named Lyndon Johnson, David Philips, Cord Meyer, David Morales and Antonio Veciana, as participants.

Another participant was Frank Sturgis, an anti-Castro paramilitary closely associated with Hunt. Sturgis was one of the Watergate burglars.

He also named Bill Harvey of the CIA as a key figure in the operation. Harvey ran the CIA’s assassination programme which was known as ‘ZR/RIFLE’. Harvey had links to the Corsican mafia whose assassins he used to murder CIA targets.

Harvey hated the Kennedys who exiled him to Europe after he sent sabotage teams into Cuba during the 1962 Missile Crisis against their orders.

Harvey was a friend of Johnny Roselli who worked for the CIA and the mafia, and is believed to have played a part in the JFK murder. In 1999, Harvey’s widow confirmed the friendship with Roselli.

An excellent article including the 1999 video interview with Harvey’s widow can be found here: https://jfkfacts.org/cia-widow-denounced-jfk-jackie-and-rfk-then-she-expressed-love-for-a-gangster/

Hunt’s account can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDjP7kgF-K8

Hunt focussed on the main players in the plot, not those lower down such as David Ferrie. We know, however, that Ferrie lied about his whereabouts on the day of Kennedy’s assassination. Jack Martin, one of Guy Bannister’s associates, revealed Ferrie acted as a pilot for some of those involved in the conspiracy.

Two other important conspirators were Allen Dulles and Charles Cabell, the director and deputy director of the CIA, both of whom were dismissed by Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. In his book on Dulles, David Talbot argues convincingly that Dulles oversaw the operation. He spent the weekend of the hit at a CIA base even though he was no longer in the agency.

Charles Cabell was the brother of Earle Cabell. Earle was mayor of Dallas in 1963. He played a part diverting JFK’s cavalcade into Dealey Plaza – which was not a logical route for the vehicles to take – and made him easy prey for the riflemen waiting for him there. This detour forced the cars to take sharp turns and slow down.

There were many other people involved in the Kennedy assassination, including Major-General Edward Lansdale, seen in the photograph above with Allen Dulles.

There is evidence of the involvement of Cubans such as Herminio Diaz Garcia and others. Interested readers might care to purchase a copy of Anthony Summers’ book, ‘Not in Your Lifetime’.

Robert Kennedy Sr never accepted the finding of the Warren Commission. He went along with it for tactical purposes to buy time. He hoped to unravel the conspiracy by becoming president himself. However, he was shot dead in equally suspicious circumstances in 1968.

Sam Giancana’s family said Giancana boasted the CIA murdered him too.

He was shot by Sirahan Sirhan who was a gambler who owed the mafia money as a result of horse betting. He pulled the trigger but was not a professional hit man.

There was a second gunman, Thaine Eugene Cesar, whose shooting role was covered up by the CIA, FBI and corrupt LA Police officers.

Sirhan Sirhan is still alive and in prison, still terrified to tell the truth about the mafia pressure that was brought to bear on him to shoot RFK.

Many observers believe Murdoch jumped into bed with the CIA when he befriended Ted Shackley, a CIA highflyer, in the early 1970’s. Murdoch’s business partner, Peter Abeles, also became a CIA ally by establishing Australia’s Nugan Hand bank in 1973. It was used by the CIA for all sorts of nefarious purposes until a scandal in 1980.

By the early 1980’s, Murdoch was part of the furniture at the CIA. It was to him that William Casey, the Director of the CIA under Ronald Reagan, turned when he wanted to generate media support for CIA operations in Central America. Murdoch’s empire became a cheerleader the CIA’s Contra mercenary army in Nicaragua.

In 2011, Murdoch sent an emissary to General David Petraeus in Afghanistan to ask him to run for president with the promise he would bankroll his campaign. Petraeus refused but went on to become DCI.

Carlson’s relationship with the CIA has been less harmonious. Born in San Francisco in 1969, he was rejected by the CIA, when he applied to join it after his graduation.

Instead, he rose to become a champion for the Right on Fox News. Whereas Trump is uncouth and aggressive, Carlson came over as intelligent and articulate. Ideal material for a tilt at the White House in 2028 one might think?  

The speculation about the reason for Carlson’s dismissal by Murdoch is less than impressive. Murdoch recently paid $787 million to Dominion Voting Services for defamation.  A January 2021 broadcast by Carlson was cited in the suit, but it was but one of twenty transmissions that defamed Dominion. The other broadcasters were not sacked.

Carlson’s emails, in which criticised management, have also been mooted as an explanation. Can they really have upset Murdoch who sacks managers frequently? Then there is an allegation that Carlson contributed to a toxic atmosphere at Fox, something that sparked another legal suit. Murdoch is fighting it. Sacking a key witness is hardly conducive to its defence.

The real reason for the dismissal may relate to Tucker’s probe into the Kennedy assassination.

Millions of Americans watched his broadcast about the JFK assassination. It was highly critical of the CIA. An additional 10.4 million have viewed it on YouTube.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAiRmhXvJHs).

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David Burke is the author of four books published by Mercier Press, Ireland’s oldest publishing house: –

‘Deception & Lies, the Hidden History of the Arms Crisis 1970’, and;

‘Kitson’s Irish War, Mastermind of the Dirty War in Ireland’  which examines the role of counter-insurgency dirty tricks in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, and;

‘An Enemy of the Crown, the British Secret Service Campaign against Charles Haughey’, which was published on 30 September 2022.

His latest book is The Puppet Masters’.

These books can be purchased here: 

https://www.mercierpress.ie/irish-books/deception-and-lies

https://www.mercierpress.ie/irish-books/kitson-s-irish-war/

https://www.mercierpress.ie/irish-books/an-enemy-of-the-crown/

https://www.mercierpress.ie/?s=Puppet

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