forgave
Kennedy for the failure at the Bay of Pigs, and many of
these same
individuals were furious at Kennedy over his handling of
the Cuban Missile
Crisis and over his shutting down of their para-military
training camps.
It should be noted that the militant anti-Castro exiles
were almost
exclusively under the control of the CIA.
Richard Nixon was one of the most corrupt residents in the
history of our
republic. If nothing else, I believe Nixon might have had
foreknowledge of
the assassination (and obviously did nothing to prevent
it). The Nixon
administration repeatedly intervened to quash prosecutions
and
investigations of criminal activity in Mafia-dominated
labor unions. Nixon
was involved in a number of highly questionable–and, in
some cases,
Mob-connected–financial dealings. Nixon pardoned organized
crime figures
after the government had spent millions of dollars to put
them in jail.
Among those pardoned was Mafia killer Angelo DeCarlo. On
one occasion,
recorded on a 1971 Watergate tape, Nixon and his aides
discussed using Mob
thugs to attack anti-war protestors. Not surprisingly, by
all accounts
the Mafia warmly endorsed and supported Nixon’s campaigns.
John Davis, an
authority on organized crime, has said, For one thing,
there is some
evidence linking him to Jack Ruby. It was reported in a
1947 FBI document
that Jack Ruby had performed “information functions for the
staff of
Congressman Richard Nixon”. Nixon flew to Dallas on
November 20, 1963, two
days before the assassination. Asked later why he had come,
he said he was
there to attend a board meeting of the Pepsi-Cola Company.
Yet, a
subsequent review of Pepsi-Cola corporate files revealed
there was no
record of any Pepsi-Cola board meetings in Dallas in 1963.
While in
Dallas, Nixon made comments to the city’s newspapers to the
effect that
he, unlike President Kennedy, did not need Secret Service
protection.
Several researchers believe that this taunting might have
contributed to
the decision not to have the Plexiglass bubble top placed
on his limousine
on the day of the assassination. He is also believe to have
influenced the
mayor of Dallas to change the route of the limousine. The
route of JFK’s
car was changed for an unknown reason to a more dangerous
route. (See map
of route) Nixon left Dallas on the morning of the
assassination. However,
during an FBI interview in early 1964, he said the only
time he had been
in Dallas in 1963 was two days before Kennedy was killed.
It has been said
that Nixon must have been the only adult at the time who
could not
remember where he was on November 22, 1963. Why did Nixon
tell the FBI he
had not been in Dallas on the day of the murder? What
exactly was he doing
there from November 20 till the morning of the
assassination?
According to none other than Nixon’s chief of staff, H. R.
Haldeman, Nixon
attempted to force the CIA to assist in thwarting
investigations into
Watergate by threatening to expose the CIA’s role in the
Kennedy
assassination. In connection with this, it is worth
mentioning again that
E. Howard Hunt of the CIA was able to blackmail Nixon for a
million
dollars. What did Hunt know? As discussed earlier, several
researchers
have accused Hunt of complicity in Kennedy’s death, and
Hunt has given
conflicting accounts of where he was on the day of the
shooting.
Also several of the people who were hired or considered for
employment by
the Nixon White House during Watergate had been connected
with the Warren
Commission. Was this just a coincidence? In addition, some
of the
operatives and Cuban exiles who were involved in the Bay of
Pigs operation
later turned up in the Watergate affair.
In my opinion, the principal individuals and forces behind
the
assassination were fanatical right-wing elements in the CIA
and in the
military, J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson. I believe CIA
and Mafia
operatives, to include disaffected anti-Castro Cubans,
constituted the
largest part of the on-the-ground, operational arm of the
plot. I believe
that members of the Dallas law enforcement community were
involved in the
Dallas end of the cover-up, and that some of them knowingly
allowed Jack
Ruby to murder Oswald. I believe that FBI agents, along
with J. Edgar
Hoover, played a major role in most aspects of the cover-
up. I believe
Oswald was setup by LBJ, Hoover and the CIA. The magic
bullet found
mysteriously, later in the Parkland Memorial Hospital in an
almost
pristine condition was planted to match Oswald’s rifle. .
In my view, the main reasons President Kennedy was killed
were
(1) He refused to further escalate American involvement
in Vietnam
(2) He was moving to end the Cold War
(3) Mafia’s outrage over his war on organized crime.
Just below these reasons, I would list LBJ’s lust for the
presidency, J.
Edgar Hoover’s hatred of JFK and his desire to remain
director of the FBI
and Kennedy’s reported intent to drastically reorganize or
dismantle the
CIA.
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