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Octafish

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38. Garrison was a World War II hero and a guy who devoted his life to Justice.
Fri Nov 30, 2012, 05:34 PM
Nov 2012

From 1967 -- before there were any documents released at all -- Jim Garrison interview in Playboy magazine.

EXCERPT...

GARRISON: Let me finish and you can decide for yourself. When Oswald went to Mexico City in an effort to obtain a visa for travel to Cuba, this CIA agent accompanied him. Now, at this particular time, Mexico was the only Latin-American nation maintaining diplomatic ties with Cuba, and leftists and Communists from all over the hemisphere traveled to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City for visas to Cuba. The CIA, quite properly, had placed a hidden movie camera in a building across the street from the embassy and filmed everyone coming and going. The Warren Commission, knowing this, had an assistant legal counsel ask the FBI for a picture of Oswald and his companion on the steps of the embassy, and the FBI, in turn, filed an affidavit saying they had obtained the photo in question from the CIA. The only trouble is that the CIA supplied the Warren Commission with a phony photograph. The photograph of an "unidentified man" published in the 26 volumes is not the man who was filmed with Oswald on the steps of the Cuban Embassy, as alleged by the CIA. It's perfectly clear that the actual picture of Oswald and his companion was suppressed and a fake photo substituted because the second man in the picture was working for the CIA in 1963, and his identification as a CIA agent would have opened up a whole can of worms about Oswald's ties with the Agency. To prevent this, the CIA presented the Warren Commission with fraudulent evidence --- a pattern that repeats itself whenever the CIA submits evidence relating to Oswald's possible connection with any U.S. intelligence agency. The CIA lied to the Commission right down the line; and since the Warren Commission had no investigative staff of its own but had to rely on the FBI, the Secret Service and the CIA for its evidence, it's understandable why the Commission concluded that Oswald had no ties with American intelligence agencies.

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PS: McAdams, really?

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the thing that ruined "JFK" for me Enrique Nov 2012 #1
"Interesting?" Archae Nov 2012 #3
What is up with this Anti-Semitic meme running around in Hollywood? vaberella Nov 2012 #7
Not just liberals in Hollywood. Archae Nov 2012 #9
The part where he says Johonny Nov 2012 #31
The late Larry Hagman in Nixon (1995) MinM Nov 2012 #12
JFK was an incomprehensible confusing mess bluestateguy Nov 2012 #2
Well, O.K. (I read the whole link.)But it was priceless when STONE dropped his bomb on Morning Scab UTUSN Nov 2012 #4
I agree JFK was make believe. But it is great movie making. applegrove Nov 2012 #5
I also agree oswaldactedalone Nov 2012 #8
As a kid, my brother used to have a book on a jfk conspiracy. I used applegrove Nov 2012 #34
it's a ten-part TV series, not a 'documentary'. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #6
Ok, it's a "documentary" series then. Archae Nov 2012 #10
It's loathsome on a liberal website that anyone would DARE judge a move without seeing it first. KittyWampus Nov 2012 #39
Is there a post where the OP says they haven't seen it? zappaman Nov 2012 #45
i vowed around JFK never to watch a stone movie. pansypoo53219 Nov 2012 #11
last movie I saw from stone was platoon. Won't waste time with his vision of things anymore still_one Nov 2012 #27
Oliver Stone has been a RW whipping boy for a long, long time (since Platoon) JCMach1 Nov 2012 #13
"Sometimes?" Archae Nov 2012 #14
there are some of his movies that aren't JCMach1 Nov 2012 #53
Well, I would have to watch the piece in order to judge it fairly, MadHound Nov 2012 #15
Stone does the nation a service by bringing up the things the rightwing prefers we move on from. Octafish Nov 2012 #18
In other news: water is wet. Lizzie Poppet Nov 2012 #16
Absolutely no cred Berlum Nov 2012 #17
To me JFK was more about the fascination with the event and all the conspiracy theories CBGLuthier Nov 2012 #19
So you've seen it? joeybee12 Nov 2012 #20
Too many to count. Archae Nov 2012 #21
Is that the same Wikipedia famous for CIA revisions? Octafish Nov 2012 #22
Garrison was a fraud zappaman Nov 2012 #24
Garrison was a World War II hero and a guy who devoted his life to Justice. Octafish Nov 2012 #38
So war heroes can't be nuts? zappaman Nov 2012 #46
What? Like the time Eisenhower's CIA asked the Mafia to kill Castro? Octafish Nov 2012 #49
"What? Like the time Eisenhower's CIA asked the Mafia to kill Castro?" zappaman Nov 2012 #50
I think the other poster was asking if you'd seen the documentary you are testifying Bluenorthwest Nov 2012 #32
Yup. nt woo me with science Nov 2012 #43
What is sad is that way too many people view JFK as a documentary zappaman Nov 2012 #23
One Big Thing Oliver Stone got right: JFK was pulling US out of Vietnam. Octafish Nov 2012 #25
Not according to Bobby zappaman Nov 2012 #26
So what? That was before LBJ used the Tonkin Gulf Incident as casus belli for sending in draftees. Octafish Nov 2012 #37
This message was self-deleted by its author woo me with science Nov 2012 #41
I take it you object to the "USA as Empire" angle? Junkdrawer Nov 2012 #28
He did a hatchet job on Harry Truman JPZenger Nov 2012 #29
I don't care for most of his films, nor for him personally, but this is not valid criticism Bluenorthwest Nov 2012 #30
I watched 10 minutes of Stone's history show. Archae Nov 2012 #48
So, does this mean "Scarface" is fiction? LTR Nov 2012 #33
X - P = Richard Case Nagell MinM Nov 2012 #35
He's fantastic and I'll be watching this LittleBlue Nov 2012 #36
The worst part of that movie Capt. Obvious Nov 2012 #40
First time I heard that stupid thing talk I fell "back and to the left" on my ass. :-p nt Guy Whitey Corngood Nov 2012 #42
onto the grassy knoll? Capt. Obvious Nov 2012 #44
A grassy Knoll in the Dagobah System. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Nov 2012 #47
These are not the magic bullets you're looking for Capt. Obvious Nov 2012 #51
But his "W." had me laughing until I cried rock Nov 2012 #52
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