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In reply to the discussion: Treasure trove of JFK, LBJ documents declassified by CIA [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)4. Agency continues to provide disinformation on Dallas.
These documents released yesterday act to reinforce the notion that there was nothing anybody could do. They don't mention what is never mentioned: CIA hired Mafia to murder -- ostensibly Castro and others in Cuba. The disinformation comes in by making it out that it was Kennedy's idea -- when it was CIA director Allen Dulles' idea in 1960 -- when he was working for Eisenhower (and Nixon was presumed to be the next-president).
From more recent days, we see how the Agency continues to spread this disinformation:
Spies: Ex-CIA Agent In Raleigh Says Castro Knew About JFK Assassination Ahead Of Time
Former CIA agent and author Brian Latell in Raleigh
By The Raleigh Telegram
RALEIGH A noted former Central Intelligence Agency officer, author, and scholar who is intimately knowledgeable about Cuba and Fidel Castro, says he believes there is evidence that Castros government knew about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 ahead of time.
SNIP...
Robert Kennedy, as the Attorney General of the United States, was in charge of the operation, said Latell. Despite the United States best efforts, the operation was nonetheless penetrated by Cuban intelligence agents, said Latell.
Latell said there were two serious assassination attempts by the United States against Castro that even used members of the mafia to help, but both of them were obviously unsuccessful.
He also said that there was a plot by the United States to have Castro jabbed with a pen containing a syringe filled with a very effective poison. Latell said that he believes the experienced assassin who worked for Castro who originally agreed to the plan may have been a double agent. After meeting with a personal representative of Robert Kennedy in Paris, the man knew that the plan to assassinate Castro came from the highest levels of the government, including John F. and Robert Kennedy.
The plan was never carried out, as the man later defected to the United States, but with so many double agents working for Castro also pledging allegiance to the CIA, Latell said it was likely that the information got back to Havana that the Kennedy brothers endorsed that plot with the pen.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20120915095137/http://raleightelegram.com/201209123311
What we now know, but never seems to get on tee vee or into Corporate Owned Newsprint, is that CIA knew all about what LBJ called "A little incident in Mexico."
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It would be wonderful if some of these "documents" included names of those who would do harm.
Frustratedlady
Sep 2015
#1
Thanks for the info. I've never felt secure with either agency, especially with JEH at that time.
Frustratedlady
Sep 2015
#5
Is this a Democracy, when We the People are kept in the dark by those appointed to office?
Octafish
Sep 2015
#6
Odd that you can find humor in the assassination of President Kennedy, siddithers of DU.
Octafish
Sep 2015
#25
Here are two FBI documents naming George Bush in connection with JFK assassination...
Octafish
Sep 2015
#32
Yes, yes, we've all seen those the previous dozens of times you've posted them...
SidDithers
Sep 2015
#35
Allen Dulles hid CIA-Mafia assassination plots from Warren Commission and America
Octafish
Sep 2015
#42
Making light of political assassination only serves to protect Bush, siddithers of DU.
Octafish
Sep 2015
#44
Synopsis of LATEST Intelligence Items Reported to the President = SLIIRP, problem solved ! :D nt
eppur_se_muova
Sep 2015
#8
Something else never on TV: Nixon assigned a murderous Secret Service agent to protect Ted Kennedy.
Octafish
Sep 2015
#20
CIA director Allen Dulles and JCS Chairman Lemnitzer counseled all-out nuclear sneak attack on USSR.
Octafish
Sep 2015
#24
This could possibly lead to the truth about who conspired to kill our beloved President Kennedy.
Dont call me Shirley
Sep 2015
#13
We used to rely on Congress and the press...so Congress and the press got co-opted.
Octafish
Sep 2015
#34