You might think he's a bona fide expert, but there are others, and having read so many of the books by other experts, I would say I'm not sure I agree with all of his "takes," which I've heard during open Zooms.
I don't think we need to see the new documents to come to some very definite conclusions about what happened. I'm saying this before reading this, so I may amend or revise this after I hear what he says. But I did hear him on a podcast already commenting about it and I don't recall anything I haven't heard before.
Just as I thought, nothing I haven't already known for many years. Oswald was an intelligence agent. He was stationed in Japan while in the Marines and trained as a radio technician for the secret U-2 surveillance program -- that means he was CIA -- it's likely he faked being a double agent, considering Marina's father was KGB. Of course the CIA would be in contact with him. He was in the CIA.
Of course, we know it changed the course of history. We knew that for certain in the early 1970s. And our nation has continually moved right. If you look at Ike's platform in 1956, a conservative Republican, it sounds a lot like Bernie Sanders.
We've known for many years that the CIA hated JFK. Read Howard Hunt's memoir Give Us This Day about the Bay of Pigs. They blamed Kennedy for the failure because he prevented the second overflight of CIA B-25s to fully disable the Cuban Air Force, whose planes proved instrumental in the failure of the beach landing of the Cuban exiles.
I never heard the story about DeGaulle.
It seems Trump is representing a new even more conservative and authoritarian faction.
But what do I know? Just what it seems to me, weighing everything.
Thanks for the update on information just acquired in the latest file release by the National Archives.
I was 10 years old, in fifth grade and remember vividly that terrible day. We were released early from school and to this day can remember every step taken and every word spoken with my two chums who lived on my block. They can too, we all spoke about this about a month ago.
The murders of President Kennedy, his younger brother Robert, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X took away any effective resistance to the Powell Memo that was written in 1971. The implementation of that memo's goals were fulfilled over the course of my life and have resulted in the hellhole in which we are now cast.
Somehow, someway. we must wrest control of our foreign policy and our privacy from the 17 different intelligence agencies that our feckless Congress and Senate fund. It is time for our country to live within its borders and start the serious reforms necessary to preserve a land that will host our descendants.
If anyone's interested in a deep dive into this subject, please read James W. Douglass' 'JFK and The Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It matters' also read David Talbot's 'The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government'. And if you really want to know all about the American Empire, study the subject as if it were a Graduate program, DO THE WORK!
I hope this is sarcasm because if it isn't, I'd be really concerned. As I just posted, read the book about Kennedy and how he was working with Russia to end the Cold War, eliminate above-ground nuclear testing (which was agreed upon and congress passed the treaty), a ban on nuclear weapons, and bring peace to our world. And for his efforts, JFK was assassinated. Good God, what a world!
I still hate Kennedy.
You might think he's a bona fide expert, but there are others, and having read so many of the books by other experts, I would say I'm not sure I agree with all of his "takes," which I've heard during open Zooms.
I don't think we need to see the new documents to come to some very definite conclusions about what happened. I'm saying this before reading this, so I may amend or revise this after I hear what he says. But I did hear him on a podcast already commenting about it and I don't recall anything I haven't heard before.
Just as I thought, nothing I haven't already known for many years. Oswald was an intelligence agent. He was stationed in Japan while in the Marines and trained as a radio technician for the secret U-2 surveillance program -- that means he was CIA -- it's likely he faked being a double agent, considering Marina's father was KGB. Of course the CIA would be in contact with him. He was in the CIA.
Of course, we know it changed the course of history. We knew that for certain in the early 1970s. And our nation has continually moved right. If you look at Ike's platform in 1956, a conservative Republican, it sounds a lot like Bernie Sanders.
We've known for many years that the CIA hated JFK. Read Howard Hunt's memoir Give Us This Day about the Bay of Pigs. They blamed Kennedy for the failure because he prevented the second overflight of CIA B-25s to fully disable the Cuban Air Force, whose planes proved instrumental in the failure of the beach landing of the Cuban exiles.
I never heard the story about DeGaulle.
It seems Trump is representing a new even more conservative and authoritarian faction.
But what do I know? Just what it seems to me, weighing everything.
Thanks for the update on information just acquired in the latest file release by the National Archives.
I was 10 years old, in fifth grade and remember vividly that terrible day. We were released early from school and to this day can remember every step taken and every word spoken with my two chums who lived on my block. They can too, we all spoke about this about a month ago.
The murders of President Kennedy, his younger brother Robert, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X took away any effective resistance to the Powell Memo that was written in 1971. The implementation of that memo's goals were fulfilled over the course of my life and have resulted in the hellhole in which we are now cast.
Somehow, someway. we must wrest control of our foreign policy and our privacy from the 17 different intelligence agencies that our feckless Congress and Senate fund. It is time for our country to live within its borders and start the serious reforms necessary to preserve a land that will host our descendants.
If anyone's interested in a deep dive into this subject, please read James W. Douglass' 'JFK and The Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It matters' also read David Talbot's 'The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government'. And if you really want to know all about the American Empire, study the subject as if it were a Graduate program, DO THE WORK!
I haven't read the first book, but I highly recommend the second.
For more on Dulles, see here:
https://neuburger.substack.com/i/144150819/where-does-the-culture-of-the-cia-come-from
Thomas
Oh Thomas, you need to read the first book, and as an added bonus, Douglass uses the activism and writings of Thomas Merton liberally: Excellent work!
Since we know the CIA knew everything, and that the CIA was totally controlled by the KGB, can't we still say "The Russians did it?"
LOL
I hope this is sarcasm because if it isn't, I'd be really concerned. As I just posted, read the book about Kennedy and how he was working with Russia to end the Cold War, eliminate above-ground nuclear testing (which was agreed upon and congress passed the treaty), a ban on nuclear weapons, and bring peace to our world. And for his efforts, JFK was assassinated. Good God, what a world!
So please Edwin, tell me, was it truly sarcasm? No need to answer, I just saw the LOL, my bad!