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69. COINTELPRO ties in with Dallas and Nov. 22, 1963...

FBI was doing its COINTELPRO thing on one Lee Harvey Oswald:

The JFK connection: Why COINTELPRO still matters

Jefferson Morley
JFKfacts.org, Jan. 7, 2014

EXCERPT...

Remember that COINTELPRO is short for “Counterintelligence Program.”

Remember that the Counterintelligence Staff, headed by James Angleton, was the component of the CIA that tracked Lee Harvey Oswald closely from October 1959 to November 1963.

As historian David Kaiser revealed in his deeply researched book “The Road to Dallas,” COINTELPRO targeted the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee for disruption and discrediting in the summer of 1963. At the time Lee Harvey Oswald was founding his own chapter of the FPCC in New Orleans — over the written objections of the FPCC’s leadership.

As Bill Simpich documents in his revelatory and important ebook, “State Secret,” the FBI and the CIA’s counterintelligence staff worked together on a program to discredit the FPCC 1963 throughout the fall of 1963.

Here’s the CIA’s Sept. 16, 1963 memo to the FBI about the operation to discredit the FPCC “in foreign countries.”



http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=377132

The author of the memo, John Tilton, was a supervisor of George Joannides, the Miami-based undercover officer whose paid assets in the Cuban Student Directorate (DRE) publicized and denounced Oswald’s pro-Castro activities in New Orleans in August 1963.

Eleven days after Tilton wrote his memo, a man identifying himself as Lee Harvey Oswald appeared at the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City applying for a visa to travel to Cuba. He gave his self-made FPCC membership card as part of his visa application. Officials in the Cuban Embassy were suspicious of Oswald and rejected his application.

After JFK was killed, Joannides’s assets in the Cuban Student Directorate published the first JFK conspiracy theory linking Oswald to Castro. The group cited Oswald’s FPCC activities in New Orleans as evidence.

After Oswald was killed in police custody, the White House and the FBI moved to convince the public Oswald was the sole assassin.

At the CIA, Angleton killed John Whitten’s efforts to investigate Oswald’s Cuban contacts.

The wishes of the CIA and FBI came true. The FPCC disbanded on December 27, 1963, its name forever tainted by the linkage to the accused assassin.

As Simpich notes correctly, “Counterintelligence is the hidden heart of the story…”

And we first learned about COINTELPRO thanks to the people who came forward today.

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http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/news/the-jfk-connection-why-cointelpro-still-matters/

Thanks, Uncle Joe!