Yes, the CIA Director Was Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up

[KingCharlemagne]

142. The CIA had every reason to hide Operation Mongoose from

the Warren Commission, but not because it was a conspirator in JFK's assassination.

Here's my take (borrowing liberally from Bugliosi's ideas): after the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK had pledged to Khrushchev that there would be no furthered aggression against Cuba. And yet . . . the CIA was still trying to assassinate the legitimate leader of Cuba (a fact that would only emerge into broad American consciousness during the Church Committee hearings in the 70s). The CIA could ill afford to have it publicly revealed in 1963 that it was engaged in assassination attempts!

And yet . . . the Cuban government routinrly broadcast news bulletins about those attempts on Radio Havana at the time. Living in Dallas and New Orleans, LHO would have been able to listen to those broadcasts with few difficulties. And LHO believed in the Cuban Revolution and would have been infuriated that the U.S. was trying to kill Fidel.

This set of facts makes LHO a far more sympathetic and tragic character, imo. His awareness of CIA perfidy came a good 15 years in advance of most Americans'. I don't approve of his actions -- violence rarely solves anything, not least the violence of political assassination. But his outrage at the CIA's activities is well-established and suggests his heart was in the right place.

Long and short: the CIA had every reason to conceal evidence from the Warren Commission. But the reason was both far more banal and yet far more evil than your thread might suggest. The CIA's actions inspired a deadly rage in a young, idealistic LHO. The American people could NEVER be allowed to learn what LHO knew.