Former Agent: Plot to Kill JFK in Chicago Foiled Before Assassination

[k-robjoe]

Former Agent: Plot to Kill JFK in Chicago Foiled

"A former Secret Service agent says a plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in Chicago was foiled three weeks before he was fatally shot in Dallas, according to WLS-TV.
(...)
Bolden tells WLS-TV that when the Warren Commission began investigating JFK's assassination, he attempted to inform members about the Chicago plots and alleged misconduct by his fellow agents, but was arrested and prosecuted for soliciting a bribe from a counterfeiter and served a six-year sentence.

Bolden claims it was a set-up to silence him. The main witness has recanted his accusations, and Bolden hopes now to clear his name, the station reports."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312580,00.html

[L. Coyote]

1. There is a ton of info behind the Faux Nov. 22 blurp. Start here:

Feb 17, 2006, by CommonDreams.org = http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0217-20.htm
After 40 Years, the First National Security Whistleblower Still Seeks Justice
by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann

After an outstanding career in law enforcement, Abraham Bolden was appointed by John F. Kennedy to be the first African American presidential Secret Service agent, where he served with distinction. But you haven't heard about Abraham Bolden during Black History month, because after helping to prevent JFK's assassination in the weeks before Dallas, Bolden was arrested on the very day he went to Washington to tell the Warren Commission about those attempts. Caught in a maze of National Security concerns that only became clear after four million pages of JFK files were released in the 1990s, Bolden was sentenced to six years in prison, becoming America's first National Security Whistleblower.

The files released after Congress passed the JFK Act unanimously in 1992 show the massive amount of information that had been withheld from at least five Congressional investigations. Even worse, the Final Report of the JFK Board created by Congress shows that crucial files about attempts against JFK--the cases Bolden worked on--were destroyed by the Secret Service in 1995. And, a report by the government oversight group OMB Watch says that "well over one million CIA records" related to JFK's era remain unreleased, perhaps until the mandatory release date of 2017.

Bolden, now 71, can't wait that long.

Plus, the long-secret files that have been released show how keeping millions of documents secret for decades have negatively impacted US actions in dealing with Iraq, Central America, and Cuba, as well as preventing crucial intelligence failures from coming to light prior to 9/11.

On February 14, 2006, Congress held hearings about National Security Whistleblowers, ...........

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More on one of the authors here. Judge for yourself the validity....

Who Killed JFK? - An Interview With Lamar Waldron
by Paul Comstock April 3rd, 2007 = http://calitreview.com/2007/04/03/who-killed-jfk-an-interview-with-lamar-waldron/


Lamar Waldron is the author of Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK.

So much has been written about JFK’s assassination–what in your book is new?

A tremendous amount. With the help of almost two dozen people who worked with John and Robert Kennedy–backed up by thousands of documents in the National Archives–we discovered that JFK and his brother had a never-before-revealed plan to stage a coup against Castro on December 1, 1963. The CIA’s code-name for their part of the plan–AMWORLD–has never appeared in print before, and was withheld from the Warren Commission and later Congressional investigating committees. As part of the coup plan, in the days and weeks before Dallas, Robert Kennedy even had a top secret committee making plans for dealing with the possible “assassination of American officials,” in case Castro found out about the coup plan and tried to retaliate.However, the Kennedy’s coup plan was infiltrated by three powerful Mafia bosses being targeted by Attorney General Robert Kennedy

[seemslikeadream]

2. silver certificates, anyone?

[seemslikeadream]

7. we never recovered from the Vietnam War

Did we?

[k-robjoe]

5. Whoops Thanks :) n/t

[L. Coyote]

8. Thank Google. (I do every month when the check arrives!)

And the advertisers who pay the bill!

I wonder how much DU profits for their Google ads?

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. No truer words were ever spoken:

"Plus, the long-secret files that have been released show how keeping millions of documents secret for decades have negatively impacted US actions in dealing with Iraq, Central America, and Cuba, as well as preventing crucial intelligence failures from coming to light prior to 9/11."

Make no mistake, keeping secrets protect no one but the guilty. And they'll just continue making the same mistakes, following the same bad policies, using the same disloyal allies.

[AntiFascist]

12. The book also addresses Jack Ruby's mafia connections....

and how he may have been paid to silence Oswald by killing him:

In addition, Salinger–who began his work for the Kennedys as a Mafia investigator–revealed that Jack Ruby had been in Chicago a week prior to the motorcade, where he had received $7,000 from someone who worked for an associate of Trafficante and Marcello. Salinger’s revelation was confirmed by two eye-witnesses and FBI reports in the National Archives.The Tampa attempt had more than a dozen parallels to JFK’s assassination in Dallas, including a male suspect in his early twenties linked to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. The Police and Secret Service warned JFK about the threat, but JFK bravely went ahead with the motorcade anyway, because of an important speech about Cuba he had to give in Miami that night, a speech that was part of the coup plan.

The article also mentions French assassin Michel Victor Mertz. Could this explain why French intelligence may have been involved in Robert Kennedy's secret investigation?

[JDPriestly]

3. Fox news?????

[k-robjoe]

4. Thanks n/t

[H2O Man]

6. Read Lamar Waldron's

"Ultimate Sacrifice" for more detailed information on this.

[mopinko]

9. with thom hartmann

there was also a plot it miami that week.
i haven't read the book yet, but this book is based on the documents that clinton released.

[Octafish]

11. President Kennedy ordered the Secret Service integrated.

Mr. Abraham Bolden was the first to serve as a plain-clothes officer. As a member of the Chicago office, he was instrumental in protecting President Kennedy when the SS became aware of a plot to kill the president in Chicago. After the assassination, Bolden reported his suspicions of an inside plot. He promptly was framed, convicted and jailed.

For details, GOOGLE Abraham-Bolden + Vince-Palamara (who's research has chronicled the actions and inactions of the Secret Service in the assassination).

[Rhiannon12866]

13. K&R. This story was on CNN International non-stop yesterday. n/t

[book_worm]

14. I still think it was a mob hit on JFK

he took mob money (or his dad did) in 1960 and then he didn't give them any special favors.