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In reply to the discussion: Who was responsible for the JFK conspiracy theories? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)56. "Shoot Him Down" -- NBC, the CIA and Jim Garrison
An odd choice of words, considering the subject:
"Shoot Him Down"
NBC, the CIA and Jim Garrison
by William Davy
EXCERPT...
The newly released CIA files present an interesting biography of "reporter" Sheridan. In 1955 Sheridan was security approved as an investigator for the CIA. A month later this was cancelled because Sheridan accepted a position at the ultra-secret National Security Agency. In 1956 he was security approved once again by the CIA so that he could attend their "Basic Orientation Course". After leaving the NSA, Sheridan went to work for Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department in the "Get Hoffa" squad, where his tactics in nailing Hoffa earned him a rebuke from none other than Chief Justice Earl Warren and paved the way for Hoffa's eventual release. With this background in the intelligence communities Sheridan was now apparently qualified to work for NBC as a reporter, despite having no previous journalism experience. However, documents reveal that Sheridan did not sever contact with the CIA. In early May of 1967 the Counter Intelligence office of the CIA issued a memorandum for the Deputy Director of Plans which stated:
Richard Lansdale, Associate General Counsel, has advised us that NBC plans to do a derogatory TV special on Garrison and his probe of the Kennedy assassination; that NBC regards Garrison as a menace to the country and means to destroy him. The program is to be presented within the next few weeks. Mr. Lansdale learned this information from Mr. Walter Sheridan of NBC.
As noted previously, during Sheridan's tenure in New Orleans he enlisted the aid of Richard Townley from NBC's affiliate, WDSU-TV. Townley's loose tongue offered further proof that the NBC White Paper was no more than a deliberate attempt to sabotage the investigation and to ruin Jim Garrison. A recently released FBI memo reads:
A local FBI agent reported that Richard Townley, WDSU-TV, New Orleans, remarked to a special agent of the New Orleans office last evening that he had received instructions from NBC, New York, to prepare a one hour TV special on Jim Garrison with the instruction "shoot him down."
After the program aired, Garrison petitioned the FCC who agreed that the program was biased and granted Garrison a 30-minute rebuttal to air on July 15 at 7:30 P.M. --- hardly equal time. Nevertheless, the NBC program aided greatly in the discreditation of the DA's office and potentially contaminated the Shaw jury pool.
SNIP...
Later that week Miller called CIA Associate General Counsel Richard Lansdale to inform him of the expected arrival in Washington of Alvin Beauboeuf. Beauboeuf was one of assassination suspect David Ferrie's close friends, having accompanied him on his mad dash to Texas on the day of the assassination. Miller's source on Beauboeuf was Walter Sheridan. As Lansdale notes in his memo, " the NBC special) is expected to 'bury' Garrison because everyone is convinced that Garrison is a wild and dangerous man." Miller went on to assure the CIA that "Beauboeuf would be glad to talk with us or help in any way we want." Garrison would note that after Beauboeuf's Washington trip "a change came over Beauboeuf; he refused to cooperate with us further and he made charges against my investigators."
To recap, we have evidence that NBC reporter Sheridan was providing intelligence on the Garrison investigation to a CIA lawyer, a situation that indicates certain sinister possibilities. In fact, recently declassified records show that Sheridan wasn't satisfied with solely presenting his own warped view of Garrison. A May 11th CIA memo reveals that Sheridan wanted to meet with the CIA "under any terms we propose" and that Sheridan desired to make the CIA's view of Garrison "a part of the background in the following NBC show."
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http://www.ctka.net/nbc_cia.html
Jim Garrison was a good man, a good prosecutor and a good Democrat. He was the only public official to prosecute anyone with a crime in connection with the assassination of President Kennedy. He was opposed in his work by some of the most powerful -- and undemocratic -- forces in the world. Here's something to think about, CIA holds many JFK assassination documents that need to see the light of day:
50 years later, sealed JFK files still raise questions
Serious researchers and conspiracy theorists alike note that several hundred pages of investigative documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy remain classified. Many questions hinge on a deceased CIA agent and his activities before the assassination.
By David Porter, Associated Press
Christian Science Monitor / August 17, 2013
Five decades after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot and long after official inquiries ended, thousands of pages of investigative documents remain withheld from public view. The contents of these files are partially known and intriguing and conspiracy buffs are not the only ones seeking to open them for a closer look.
Some serious researchers believe the off-limits files could shed valuable new light on nagging mysteries of the assassination including what US intelligence agencies knew about accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald before Nov. 22, 1963.
It turns out that several hundred of the still-classified pages concern a deceased CIA agent, George Joannides, whose activities just before the assassination and, fascinatingly, during a government investigation years later, have tantalized researchers for years.
"This is not about conspiracy, this is about transparency," said Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post reporter and author embroiled in a decade-long lawsuit against the CIA, seeking release of the closed documents. "I think the CIA should obey the law. I don't think most people think that's a crazy idea."
Morley's effort has been joined by others, including G. Robert Blakey, chief counsel for a House investigation into the JFK assassination in the 1970s. But so far, the Joannides files and thousands more pages primarily from the CIA remain off-limits at a National Archives center in College Park, Md.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0817/50-years-later-sealed-JFK-files-still-raise-questions
If Oswald was a lone nut, why would the CIA work so hard to impede Garrison? Why would they continue to hold documents? Why would the CIA claim "national security"? What are they hiding?
Why do you want to smear Jim Garrison's memory as a "nut," Zappaman? That seems like something John McAdams would say.
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Bad site, true, but the Washington Post article is legit, I think. Here's a different source:
NYC_SKP
Sep 2013
#17
If you want to believe the government's story, that's your prerogative but why would
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#49
I may be mistaken, but didnt you alert to have this thread locked? And someone alerted on
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#58
So it was a coincidence that both alerts were leveled against posters that you disagree with?
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#60
Yeah, Oswald was a "radical leftist" who hung out with right-wingers in Dallas and New Orleans.
Zen Democrat
Sep 2013
#28
Notice how this simple fact of where they were sitting is completed ignored by the CTers?
zappaman
Sep 2013
#50
Why do you want fewer people to learn what happened to President Kennedy, Bolo Boffin?
Octafish
Sep 2013
#72
It never gets mentioned that the Warren Commission members did not all agree with its conclusions.
dflprincess
Sep 2013
#30
Mass Media ignoring 'RFK Believed in Conspiracy' shows corrupt nature of America's Press
Octafish
Sep 2013
#46
Paranoid schizophrenics, others with mental health disorders that cause disordered thinking
REP
Sep 2013
#10
Sen. Richard Schweiker[R-PA]:"The Warren Commission has collapsed like a House of Cards"
MinM
Sep 2013
#37
It was a lack of trust in its own government by the people which gave rise to the JFK conspiracy
Samantha
Sep 2013
#21
That make sens. Today RT is doing a lot of the same job : alienate The US left from the Center. Nt
Sand Wind
Sep 2013
#39
After 2 congressional investigations I thought we had most of the answers but this documentary
KurtNYC
Sep 2013
#41
we need a bullwhip toting, hard nosed investigative journalist to get down to the bottom of why
dionysus
Apr 2014
#109
Warren Commission, Dorothy Kilgallen, the fact that Dallas cops let Oswald get shot
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2013
#95