Who Assassinated President Kennedy and Why? (June 3, 2012)

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by Michael B. Schweitzer, Attorney at Law (retired)
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February 23, 2012

THE TRUTH: The CIA assassinated President Kennedy, in what is nowadays called a “regime change.” The directive came from its former director, Allen Dulles, a criminal mastermind fired by Kennedy for launching unauthorized covert military operations to force him into wars. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, a ruthless political manipulator with a mania to be president and a wildly manic-depressive serial killer with a personal assassin (Malcolm Wallace), fully participated, secured the financing from his Texas oil backers H.L. Hunt, John Mecom and especially Clint Murchison (pronounced “Murkison”), whom Kennedy enraged by proposing to eliminate a massive tax break for oilmen, and commanded the cover-up. Johnson had positioned himself as Kennedy’s successor in 1960 by blackmailing Kennedy into nominating him for the vice presidency with evidence of Kennedy’s womanizing furnished by Johnson’s close friend and neighbor, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

The assassination, although ambitious, was a usual CIA covert military operation, planned within its tightly-knit inner circle, still loyal to Dulles who hand-picked them. The killing itself was carried out by the United States Secret Service and long-time CIA Mafia contract shooters. The operation, code-named “The Big Event,” ambushed the president in a Dallas motorcade by maneuvering his open limousine into a killing zone where bullets struck him from multiple directions. Johnson then created a seven-man, “blue ribbon” investigative committee, the Warren Commission, to preempt all other inquiries (especially by Congress), and Hoover falsified and manipulated all evidence fed to it and the public.

The Commission – whose members included Dulles and, as FBI informant, then-Congressman and later President Gerald R. Ford – issued a “definitive” report that pinned the blame on a “lone nut” assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was actually an FBI “asset” who had infiltrated secret CIA training camps for a Cuban invasion so Hoover could shut them down, ironically gifting the CIA a disposable asset of its own. Oswald himself was shot dead two days after Kennedy in an event staged for live television by the CIA so all Americans could see for themselves “case closed.”

JUST THE FACTS: As an attorney with 30 years’ experience specializing in legal research and evaluating evidence, I state findings, not speculation. I have devoted more than 4,000 hours to researching the assassination of President Kennedy. I have read what I consider the most scholarly books on the subject; studied the “primary source” materials (statements and images from the time preserved in various media); reviewed many thousands of documents, including volumes of recently declassified CIA internal memoranda, the transcripts of the Warren Commission hearings, much of the 40-volume Senate “Church Committee” report on the CIA (completed in 1976 after two years of investigation) that unmasked astonishingly un-American activities, and a long-withheld 600-page Justice Department report on CIA-Nazi collaboration entitled “Striving for Accountability in the Aftermath of the Holocaust,” finally coerced into release in 2010 by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, National Security Archive v. Dept. of Justice; and went back decades in time, studying the life histories of the key individuals.

Then I integrated the array of disparate fragments into a coherent presentation (which, for sake of brevity, does not include footnotes, but every fact is sourced). Anyone can do the same, because all of the information is in the public domain – but, as President Kennedy said he wanted to do to the CIA, splintered in a thousand pieces and scattered to the winds. I do not pretend, to paraphrase that famous triple-redundancy they say in court, to have found the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I offer my findings for your consideration. Turning to specific questions:

WHY WAS PRESIDENT KENNEDY ASSASSINATED? Mainly because Kennedy was about to end the Cold War, an extraordinarily profitable enterprise for the military-industrial complex. (There were additional reasons, but this was the main one.) The Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, transformed both Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy became an outspoken peace advocate and called for nuclear disarmament. Khrushchev responded by secretly entering into in peace negotiations. Kennedy had become our first and last anti-Establishment president. He threatened to gut the profits of American's most powerful private interests. Both leaders had to go, and Dulles knew better than anyone outside the Kremlin that killing Kennedy would topple Khrushchev as well, because replacing Kennedy with hardliner Johnson would compel the Soviets to counter-move by installing their own hardliner, Leonid Brezhnev, which they did 11 months after the assassination. The Cold War, about to end in Kennedy's second term, continued for another profitable quarter of a century. The surprise is not the assassination. The surprise would be if there wasn't one. And one must admit Dulles was clever. He overthrew the two most powerful governments on earth by killing just one man.

EFFECT ON THE WAR IN VIETNAM: Johnson’s first major act as President was to issue National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 273 on Nov. 26, 1963. It reversed Kennedy’s NSAM 263, issued Oct. 11, 1963, that ordered all American military personnel withdrawn from Vietnam by the end of 1965. Interestingly, McGeorge Bundy, the highest-ranking CIA infiltrator in the Kennedy Administration (the national security adviser), drafted NSAM 273 the day BEFORE the assassination.

KENNEDY PREDICTED THE CIA WOULD LEAD A COUP: 50 days before the assassination, famed New York Times columnist Arthur Krock published an article quoting a “very high American official” as stating: “If the United States ever experiences an attempt at a coup to overthrow the government it will come from the CIA.” Krock later revealed the “official” was President Kennedy, who spoke the words to him the day before. Kennedy often turned to his friend Krock to publish statements too politically explosive for him to speak as President.

HOW DID DULLES GAIN SUCH POWER? President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him as the first civilian CIA Director in March, 1953, shortly after taking office, on the advice of Ike’s friend and confidant Prescott Bush. Bush, during WWII, had been Hitler’s American banker until the FBI seized his bank, and both his son and grandson became U.S. presidents. Dulles, a mysterious man with a documented Nazi past, in effect infiltrated the CIA as its first Nazi director. President Harry S Truman had created the CIA as the intelligence arm of the Executive Branch by signing the National Security Act of 1947. The Act created the CIA in a simple 6-word sentence: “There is a Central Intelligence Agency.” And it gave the CIA precisely one power: to “collect intelligence . . . outside the United States.” Dulles, on his own authority and in direct violation of the law, gave the CIA a second power: to conduct covert military operations, a function that entitled it to full use of legitimate armed forces resources off the books under a section of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 – if he lied about his purpose. He lied so often, his covert operations consumed more than 80% of the Agency’s budget.

Although the 1949 Act shielded the CIA from almost any accountability, Dulles protected himself further by re-structuring the Agency horizontally from vertically, so no compartment would know what any other was doing. And he used his new creation not to serve his country, but as the enforcement arm of the military-industrial complex. Dulles’ CIA enriched the most powerful private interests in America: industrialists, bankers, big oil, agribusiness, the Rockefellers, and even himself. Dulles had learned to profit from an intelligence post during World War II, when he ran a European office of the OSS (wartime predecessor of the CIA) while acting as intermediary for Hitler’s bankers.

His covert operations included two “regime changes” that turned democracies into dictatorships. In Iran in 1953, he overthrew the Mossadegh government (Operation TP-AJAX) after it nationalized the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) that controlled Iran’s oil industry. After the coup, AIOC became British Petroleum and partnered with U.S. corporations for equal control of Iranian oil. Then in Guatemala in 1954, he overthrew the Arbenz government (Operation PBSUCCESS) after it initiated a land-reform program that re-distributed the country’s arable land to landless peasants. The U.S. government (most vocally Vice President Richard Nixon) justified the coup by branding Arbenz a Soviet puppet, notwithstanding his U.N. voting record was nearly identical to that of the U.S. The coup’s real purpose was to recapture the 80% of Guatemala’s arable land owned by United Fruit Company (later United Brands). Dulles had been a lawyer for United Fruit and held a personal stake in the outcome (with his Secretary-of-State brother John Foster Dulles) because he remained a major stockholder. In his Guatemala invasion, Dulles killed 150,000 people.

THE DULLES TOUCH: Dulles, as CIA chief, specialized in 4 things: assassinating people, overthrowing governments, infiltrating and manipulating the news media (Operation Mockingbird), and conducting sadistic mind-control experiments on unknowing subjects (Project MK-ULTRA). Dulles created MK-ULTRA in his first order as CIA director, on April 13, 1953, and gave it 6% of the total CIA budget without any oversight. “MK” stood for “mind control” (as spelled in German, “kontrolle”) and “ULTRA” was a top secret CIA designation so high it withheld information from the president. Dulles himself called the process what it actually was: “brainwashing” (as he did in the subject line of a cover memo to J. Edgar Hoover dated April 25, 1956).

To staff his project, Dulles smuggled dozens of Nazi chemical and physical torture specialists into secret CIA bases in the U.S. to continue the work they had done for Hitler – a direct violation of President Truman’s ban against using Nazi war criminals when he approved “Operation Paperclip” in September, 1946 to import German scientists. Horrifically, among Dulles’ imports, under the code name “Dr. Green,” was literally the cruelest man on earth, Auschwitz’ “Angel of Death” Josef Mengele. Among many contributions to the project, according to a recently declassified CIA memo, Mengele disemboweled children in front of other children to desensitize them. In 1973, then-CIA Director Richard Helms, tipped off about forthcoming investigations, ordered all MK-ULTRA records destroyed. But he forgot the Agency kept accounting as well as project files, and in 1977, under a Freedom of Information Act request, 16,000 pages of overlooked MK-ULTRA financial records surfaced.

Dulles also planted teams of infiltrators throughout the federal government, including every branch of the military, every investigative and other significant agency, and the White House. And he nurtured close ties with Mafia leaders, so he could (and did) engage their contract killers to do the Agency’s dirty work, to maintain its “plausible deniability” (a term he coined). Indeed, another recently declassified CIA memo reveals Dulles personally approved a murder contract with Johnny Roselli, second-in-command of the Chicago Mob under Sam Giancana. When Kennedy fired him, Dulles lost his title, but not his power. His devoted inner-circle CIA directorate continued to serve him, and he continued to serve his clients (as would any good lawyer) in the military-industrial complex, including by killing Kennedy – which, for a CIA like that, would be a day at the office.

WHO TOLD THE TRUTH? Ironically, the only players who told the truth were the two supposed “killers”: Oswald and Jack Ruby, the man who “shot” him in the stomach during his basement-garage transfer from Dallas city to county jail! In city jail corridors, Oswald told reporters, “I didn’t shoot anybody” and “I’m just a patsy.” And in a corridor two years later, Ruby told reporters, “About Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president, there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy.” Asked “Would you explain again?" he replied, “Well, the answer is the man in office now.”

THE RUBY-OSWALD CASE-CLOSER: Ruby actually fired a blank! Oswald, who had asked to wear a dark sweater before the transfer so he would look better on television, groaned twice and dropped to the ground in an Oscar-worthy performance. The CIA then double-crossed him in the ambulance and shot him for real. The necessity: The coup required 2 assassinations: JFK and Oswald. Letting Oswald live would have kept questions alive for years – during the prolonged process of trial and appeal – which would not only have delayed legitimizing the Johnson presidency, but given the public time to think about what happened and a jury a chance to acquit. That door had to be shut at once – and it was, within 48 hours. Planners selected Ruby so the second killing, like the first, could be pinned on a “lone nut” gunman. But the scenario required a single shot to play out plausibly. Ruby had to lunge at Oswald through a throng of police, reporters and photographers – a multiplicity of variables to hinder him.

A fatal shot could only be guaranteed if someone else fired it. Absent this precaution, there may well have been a second “magic bullet” to explain: how a single shot by Ruby caused two wounds to Oswald. The evidence that Ruby did not shoot Oswald: photographer Bob Jackson, who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the “shooting,” said there was “not a speck of blood anywhere” on the body or at the crime scene; the two “stretcher photos” of Oswald being carried to the ambulance show not only no blood on his sweater, but no damage to a single a fiber; and a shot by Ruby would have passed straight through him, but the trajectory of the bullet that killed him was upward. And Ruby, recounting the “incident” (his words) in an interview three weeks before he died, said: “I can’t recall what had happened from the time I came to the bottom of the ramp until the police officers had me on the ground.” His mind was blank about everything he said and did during his encounter with Oswald, as if programmed by MK-ULTRA to auto-erase. To those who doubt the proposition the Ruby-Oswald “shooting” was staged, consider this: in a plot that required two assassinations, what is the probability the first occurred by conspiracy and the second by chance?

IF ANY DOUBT REMAINS #1: The Warren Commission itself concluded Oswald could have fired only three shots. But their own evidence proved at least five. The Commission claimed a first shot missed and injured bystander James Tague with a flying curb fragment, a second (the “magic bullet”) penetrated Kennedy’s neck and struck Gov. John Connally three times, and the third hit Kennedy’s head. But Roy Kellerman, the Secret Service agent in the front passenger seat, testified he heard Kennedy cry out, “My God, I’m hit!” (Warren Hearing Transcripts, Vol. II, p. 73.) Kennedy could only have said this BEFORE the throat-shot, because it took out his vocal chords. Moreover, some 40 out of 40 eye-witnesses (civilian and governmental) swore they heard two head-shots, half-a-second apart. Incidentally, the last shot was an exploding projectile fired from the front that blew the president’s brains so far beyond the trunk of the car they splattered people behind it, and the famous Zapruder film shows First Lady Jacqueline stretch her arm to the far end of the trunk to retrieve a piece. (Curiously, the news media has consistently and falsely reported she climbed onto the trunk, as if to escape. The Zapruder film clearly shows she never left the back seat, but planted her knees atop it, grabbed the brain tissue, and immediately sat down again.) There is only one impossibility in the murder of President Kennedy: a lone assassin.

IF ANY DOUBT REMAINS #2: Six of the ten members of Kennedy’s Cabinet were sent out of the country before the assassination, on a flight to Japan that only one of them had to make, Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Flying with them, for no reason, was Kennedy’s press secretary, Pierre Salinger – an expert on motorcade security. Only two important Cabinet members were in Washington, D.C. when Lyndon Johnson became the President of the United States: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and the Attorney General, Kennedy’s brother Robert. Everyone else with authority to run a Department of the federal government was stranded over the Pacific Ocean in a presidential aircraft – with the code book to communicate with the White House missing! They learned about the assassination from an old-fashioned telex – and with no code book, only Johnson could run their Departments. Meanwhile, McNamara, attending a budget meeting at the Pentagon, was never told by anyone there that Kennedy died. He only learned about it 90 minutes later, when he received a personal phone call from Robert Kennedy. Someone cleared a path for Johnson to run almost the entire federal government himself, without any impediment, for the first 24 hours after the assassination. And also absent from the country during the assassination was the Joint Chief of Staff’s intermediary with the CIA, Col. Fletcher Prouty. Someone sent Prouty on a pointless mission to the South Pole!

IF ANY DOUBT REMAINS #3: Only the CIA had the capability to carry out the assassination the way it happened. Its leaders included brilliant coup planners: director of assassinations Richard M. Helms and director of covert military operations James J. Angleton (in offices quaintly termed “Plans” and “Counterintelligence”). The JFK assassination was a Helms-Angleton operation. (Johnson later appointed Helms CIA director). It had infiltrators in the Secret Service, up to the second-in-command of the White House Detail, Floyd M. Boring (under Chief Gerald A. Behn), who designed a motorcade route that forced the presidential limo to crawl at 11 miles-per-hour through a 120-degree turn (virtually a U-turn) into a plaza open to gunfire from all directions – impermissibly placed first in line – to enter a freeway it had no need to use; abandoned all presidential security in Dallas, where local agent-in-charge Emory P. Roberts even ordered JFK’s bodyguards off the back bumper of his limo; and later secretly shipped the limo to Ford Motors in Detroit, where Lee Iacocca rebuilt it to destroy all evidence of bullet hits, including constructing a new windshield with a scratch where a bullet hole – perfectly positioned to hit Kennedy in the head – had been.

It had long-standing relationships with Mafia leaders and engaged some of their finest contract killers to shoot the president. It had the ability literally to turn participants’ minds on and off thanks to Project MK-ULTRA. And it had major influence over the U.S. media thanks to Operation Mockingbird, which easily enabled it to stage the Oswald-Ruby case-closer for live television (heavily promoted for public viewing by Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry). The entire sequence of events displays the distinctive and brilliant hallmarks of Allen Dulles, as identifiable as an artist’s brushstrokes on a painting.

AND A FINAL TWIST: Rep. Hale Boggs, the member of the Warren Commission most dissatisfied with its findings, died in a mysterious airplane crash in Alaska on Oct. 16, 1972. He had blasted the FBI on the House floor the previous year – on April 5, 1971 – for using Gestapo tactics against opponents of federal policy. Boggs was taken to the airport for the first leg of the trip by a young Democrat who later, as president, appointed Boggs’ wife, Lindy, as the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican after she served 18 years in Congress after her husband disappeared. The young Democrat: Bill Clinton.

CAVEAT: This summary answers only the second-level question: Who assassinated President Kennedy? (The CIA.) It does not address the first-level question: Who was the mastermind that set the machinery in motion? Many people, including Jacqueline and Robert Kennedy, believed it was Lyndon Johnson, who coveted the presidency and blackmailed JFK into making him next in line. (Johnson was also the only president who forced a Supreme Court Justice to resign: Kennedy appointee Arthur Goldberg, an intelligence operative during WWII who spied for President Franklin Roosevelt on wiretaps of Allen Dulles that monitored his Nazi activities, installed by British agents in New York.) I believe it was Dulles. I do not find credible the CIA deploying its resources to assassinate the President of the United States to serve LBJ’s personal ambitions. The CIA served the global geopolitical and profit interests of the top industrial and financial multinational corporations in the country. They were Dulles’ clients, their power exceeded the president’s, and Kennedy had initiated policies that imminently threatened their livelihoods.

FOOTNOTE: The cover story for Justice Goldberg’s resignation from the Supreme Court was that LBJ urged him to replace the late Adlai Stevenson as Ambassador to the United Nations. Disclosed by a media outlet in the 1970s but never repeated is how Stevenson died. During a brief stop in London on July 14, 1965, Stevenson suddenly fell to the ground dead on the steps of the U.S. Embassy, shot in the neck by a CIA ice dart. LBJ had ordered the first combat troops into Vietnam just three months earlier, on March 8, 1965, an escalation Stevenson opposed. So down at the same time went both Johnson and Dulles’ staunchest political opponents.

END OF CAVEAT: I recognize a third possibility, not unlikely in the real world. Financial titan and war profiteer David Rockefeller, Sr. (head of the multi-billion-dollar Rockefeller oil and banking dynasty and president of Chase Manhattan Bank), at the urging of his advisor, Harvard professor of geopolitical aggression Henry Kissinger (later President Nixon’s national security advisor), told his long-time friend and loyalist Allen Dulles to kill JFK. Kennedy’s threat to the wealth of the war machine already included the biggest bankers, and he struck them even harder on June 4, 1963, when he issued Executive Order 11110. It stripped the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank of its monopoly power under the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 to create the nation’s currency and loan it to the government at interest and restored that constitutional power (Article I, Section 8, clause 5) to the Treasury Department. The Rockefellers were major shareholders in the Fed. I can hear Kissinger’s voice, in its grave Germanic accent, speaking the words, “Kennedy has to go.” If this is the case, the man who put the machinery of the assassination of President Kennedy in motion was Henry Kissinger. I do not rule it out. — at

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ubject: response to latest Kennedy posting
From: Larry (Germany)
Date: Tue, June 5, 2012
To: Ken Adachi

the Kennedy case has always greatly intrigued me simply because it made such an indelible impression on me as a very young pubescent and so I've tried to learn as much about it as I can- if my read/researched sources are correct I agree with most of this posting except for one glaring error:

"HOW DID DULLES GAIN SUCH POWER? President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him as the first civilian CIA Director in March, 1953..."

this is not true- the CIA was founded in 1947 (Dulles was immediately appointed as a result of being the former OSS henchman) under Truman's watch and Dulles' first act (he was most definately a Nazi sympathizer like all of the corporate US elite in the '30s)was to recruit Rheinhard Gehlen (head of Nazi intelligence) and his Nazi cronies into the CIA under the pretense of them having the most info on the Soviets, not realizing he just paved the way for a Nazi underground in the USA- Nazi = Soviet: different masks on the same face- Dulles: yet another marionetted "useful idiot" for the power-brokers-

"THE RUBY-OSWALD CASE-CLOSER: Ruby actually fired a blank!"- one can see in the film footage that Oswald winces before Ruby even fires- no, it wasn't a stellar performance but the American public fell for a poorly edited B-movie-

in any case the entire Kennedy incident was an incredibly deep, murky rabitt hole filled with all sorts of shadow bunnies that seem to appear shortly then miraculously disappear...

if anyone is truly interested in the subject I heartily recommend Joseph Farrell's blockbuster "Nazi International" and "LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy" just for starters- but I still think we're not even close to reaching the bottom of the"mind shaft" on this subject-