Figuring Out The Kennedy Assassination, Part 1 By Future Of Freedom Foundation!!
(2017-08-08 at 01:21:23 )

Figuring Out the Kennedy Assassination, Part 1
by Future of Freedom Foundation

The Washington Post and Politico recently published two articles entitled "President Trump, Give Us the Full Story on the JFK Assassination" and "How the Central Intelligence Agency Came to Doubt the Official Story of JFKs Murder" by historians Larry J. Sabato and Phillip Shenon.

The thrust of the articles was to call on Trump to release all of the still-secret records relating to the JFK assassination belonging to the CIA and other federal agencies that the National Archives is required by law to release by October. In the Post article, the authors state that they have received reliable information that at least two federal agencies are going to try to persuade Trump to block the release of some of the records. In my opinion, it is a virtual certainty that the Central Intelligence Agency is one of those two agencies.

Sabato and Shenon are correct in arguing that Trump should reject any such request. The notion that the release of records that are more than half-a-century old will threaten "national security" - however that undefined term is defined - is manifestly ludicrous.

But then Sabato and Shenon go astray. Like so many others since the John F. Kennedy assassination, they try to figure out what the motive of the accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was. In the Politico article, they posit that maybe - just maybe-Oswald somehow discovered the super-secret assassination attempts against Cuban leader Fidel Castro by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Mafia, which had entered into an assassination partnership to kill Castro. Their thesis is that Oswald, as a supposed communist, loved and revered Castro, and therefore decided to retaliate by assassinating Kennedy.

There is a big problem, however, with that thesis, one that is inconsistent with the thesis. Like many other writers on the JFK assassination writers, the authors simply do not confront that inconsistency, perhaps thinking that if they just act like it is not there, their thesis might somehow, in isolation, make sense to people.

June 1963. That was when President Kennedy made his famous Peace Speech at American University. In that speech, he threw down the gauntlet to the Central Intelligence Agency, Pentagon, military-industrial complex, and the rest of the United States national-security establishment by announcing that he was ending the Cold War against Russia and the rest of the Soviet Union and was reaching out to the communist world in a spirit of mutual coexistence, peace, and friendship.

The speech was a culmination of a vicious war that had been waged between Jonh F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby against the Central Intelligence Agency ever since the Central Intelligence Agencys disastrous plan to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

The war had expanded to the Pentagon through Operation Northwoods, the infamous plan unanimously approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff that called for a fraudulent pretext to invade Cuba, which the president nixed. It continued through the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which the military establishment considered the worst defeat in United States history and akin to Chamberlains capitulation to Hitler at Munich.

The war between Kennedy and the Central Intelligence Agency-Pentagon bureaucrats had become so vicious that the president did not even pay them the courtesy of advising them of what he planned to announce in his Peace Speech at American University.

Kennedy did not stop there. Over the vehement objections of his national-security establishment, he entered into a nuclear-test ban treaty with the Soviets. He then ordered the Pentagon to begin a partial withdrawal of troops from Vietnam and told aides he would order a full pullout after winning the 1964 presidential election.

It is impossible to overstate the enormity of what Kennedy was doing and the rage and animosity it generated. To get a better sense of the magnitude of the change he was proposing and the enemies he was inciting within the national-security establishment, I recommend FFFs ebook "JFKs War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated" by Douglas Horne, who served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board, the agency that was responsible for bringing all those records to the National Archives that are set to be released in October.

As Horne details, Kennedy was changing the direction that the nation had followed since the end of World War II and which it ended up following for another 25 years after Kennedys assassination.

From 1945 to 1990, the United States was consumed with the gigantic threat that communism and the Soviet Union supposedly posed to the United States, a threat that would obviously guarantee ever-growing power and budgets for the national-security establishment, including its army of contractors, for decades to come.

The change that Kennedy was implementing would have put the quietus to the Cold War and the United States governments anti-communist crusade. In the process, it also threatened the ever-growing power and stream of income of the entire national-security establishment.

For their part, the bureaucrats within the national-security establishment were convinced that Kennedys actions would result in America falling under communist rule - that is, that Kennedys actions posed a grave threat to "national security." After all, keep in mind that what Kennedy was doing - reaching out to the Soviet Union and Cuba in a spirit of peace and friendship - was what got Mossadegh in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala, Castro in Cuba, and Allende in Chile targeted for assassination and regime change at the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency and Pentagon.

Now, here is where common sense, reason, and logic come into play.

What does the official story say about Lee Harvey Oswald? It holds that he was a devout, committed communist, right? It holds that he loved and revered Cuban president Fidel Castro, right?

Well, then, here is the $64,000 question, the one that Sabato and Shenon simply do not address, perhaps because it does not fit within the paradigm on motive that they posit in their article: If Oswald was the devout, committed communist they say he was and if he loved and revered Fidel Castro, then why kill Kennedy? Kennedy was the president who was making peace with Russia and Cuba, both of which had responded positively to Kennedys plans to end the Cold War.

In the process, Kennedy was also the one who was waging war against the agency that was trying to assassinate Castro (and also, through his brother Bobby, who was the United States Attorney General, waging war against the CIAs partner, the Mafia).

Ironically, on the very day that Kennedy was assassinated, he had an emissary personally meeting with Castro about ending the Cold War while, at the same time, the Central Intelligence Agency was employing an assassin in Paris to kill Castro.

So, why would Oswald, the supposed devout communist, want to kill Kennedy when it was Kennedy who was initiating a dramatic turn toward peace, friendship, and mutual coexistence with the communist world, one that would obviously bring an end to the Central Intelligence Agencys assassination attempts against Castro and, for that matter, other people whose only crime was believing in socialism or communism?

In fact, why assassinate Kennedy given that he would be replaced by a vice-president, Lyndon Johnson, whose mindset mirrored that of the national-security establishment that Kennedy was waging war against? Do not forget, after all, that Johnson put a quick end to Kennedys plan to end the Cold War and soon began ramping up the Vietnam War, which ended up killing more than 58,000 American men and millions of Vietnamese people.

In trying to come up with a motive for Oswald, Sabato and Shenon, of course, are not alone. Ever since the Kennedy assassination, people have tried to come up with a motive for Oswald. None of them, including the Warren Commission, has been successful. That is because the question they ask - What motivated Oswald to kill Kennedy? - is fatally flawed, as we will see in Part 2 of this essay.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!