Kennedy Assassination Quotes
There was no way of reopening the investigation into the assassination without the public finding out that the CIA and FBI both had deliberately misled the Warren Commission and the House Investigating Committee in the original investigation. Nixon and other politicians who likely knew of the scandal did not want the confidence of the public eroded in this important agencies, and that was probably his motivation for the turn down rather than trying to cover up facets about the assassination itself.
Helms and his top executives had decided to withhold from the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy assassination many of the material facts known to the CIA. The most dramatic was the fact that under Helms, the Central Intelligence Agency had hired organized crime figures to assassinate Fidel Castro, thus the Kennedy killing might have been a retaliation. This may seem shocking but the Central Intelligence Agency has been a problem ever since its inception. The agency frequently lied and withheld critical material of the President –see {634612}.
Despite pleas from his second in command not to punish the agents who botched key parts of the Oswald investigation, Hoover disciplined 17 agents with his 1964 memo. No one was more careful to “protect” the image of the FBI than Hoover. He used his powers to classify documents as “Secret” and did so for all the documentation of the FBI negligence and the discipline until 2000 when it became public.
Disciplining agents for dereliction in the Oswald investigation would be seen as Early in 1962, the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, and the Immigration & Naturalization Service all had files on Oswald but none of them shared the information with any of the other agencies. Before the Kennedy murder, the FBI had gathered evidence that Oswald may have been a deranged Marxist who supported the Cuban Revolution. The Central Intelligence Agency knew that Oswald was working at the Texas Book Depository. If the Secret Service had been privy to these agency’s files or even one of them, the Kennedy Assassination might have been prevented. Also, to J. Edgar Hoover’s later distress, the FBI did not follow up and locate Oswald when they learned their facts. He disciplined several agents. See {634531}. No one was more careful to “protect” the image of the FBI than Hoover. He used his powers to classify documents as “Secret” and did so for all the documentation of the FBI negligence and the discipline until 2000 when it became public.
The Texas authorities bungled the investigation, and the President under pressure, appointed the Warren Commission to conduct the investigation. That commission did poorly as well as they were lied to by both the CIA and the FBI. The autopsy report disappeared. The forensic photos of the dead president were not shown to anyone but Judge Warren; even the chief investigator—Arlen Specter—was not allowed to see them. Conspiracy theories have abounded ever since.
The Shah was a great conspiracy theorist. This quotation is very important in America as there is a conservative cadre which has believed this for many years. Many see the Trilateral Commission as this powerful force. The Shah’s quotation, they take as evidence for their fantasy.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. The main reason for the secrecy was that the FBI had made some serious blunders in tracking Oswald before the assassination, and failed to apprehend him when he was involved in another attempted assassination, and no one thought this negated the single assassin theory so J. Edgar Hoover was able to keep the Bureau’s incompetence secret. However, the CIA, even with the secrecy lied to the Commission to cover up their blunder in having hired Mafia organized crime figures to assassinate Fidel Castro. The attempts failed but Castro threatened to retaliate, and this possibility was never discussed by the Warren Commission as they did not have the information much less the public. Because of the secrecy, many people have been suspicious of the lone assassin conclusion that the commission had reached as they assumed venality rather than incompetence.
