Was President JFK Really Killed by the CIA

If you were ever skeptical that John F. Kennedy's assassination was an inside job, this is the story that might change your mind. Welcome to what many believe is the most compelling of all the JFK conspiracy theories. Before we talk about the evidence, and there is tons of it that may surprise even our most skeptical viewers, we need to talk a little about why. Why would the CIA, perhaps along with several other US government officials, want to eliminate its own

president

? After all, if convicted, it is a crime that would disgrace America forever. The risk involved was monumental, so there had to be a very, very important reason to go ahead with such a risky and treacherous plan.

So, we will begin our story in Cuba, Varadero beach to be exact, about two hours from the capital of Havana. French journalist Jean Daniel is having lunch in the living room of the summer residence of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a man the CIA went to almost ridiculous lengths to try to assassinate. Around 1:30 p.m. Cuban time, the phone rang. The news on the other side was that someone had tried to assassinate John F. Kennedy. Castro and Daniel had already talked a lot about Kennedy before receiving that news. The Cuban leader noted that he was reassured by how JFK and Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev had gotten along so well and were possibly working to effectively end the Cold War.

At one point, Castro told Daniel: “I know that for Khrushchev, Kennedy is a man you can talk to. “I got this impression from all my conversations with Khrushchev.” Castro told him that he hoped to work with Kennedy once the

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won a second term. He was a man the CIA despised. So when the media confirmed that Kennedy was dead, Castro, according to Daniel, was very solemn. Castro turned to him and said: “Everything has changed. Everything is going to change". It certainly was. There would be no peace talks with the Soviet Union, that's for sure. The Cold War would last for many more years.

On March 13, 1962, US Army General Lyman Lemnitzer, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented a plan to the Secretary of Defense, a man JFK trusted, Robert McNamara. Like many of the people working at the highest levels of the US military and intelligence, Lemnitzer wanted to invade Cuba. To do that, however, the United States would need a good reason, so Lemnitzer presented Operation Northwoods to McNamara. This plan pretty much sums up the type of people who surrounded Kennedy. Operation Northwoods was what is called a false flag operation, a fabricated event, in which a false hostile action requires an offensive response.

Lemnitzer wanted to attack American military bases and blame the Cubans. Amid the bullets and bombs, US intelligence propagandists would spread rumors on the radio about this cruel attack on innocent Americans. They would hire friendly Cubans to walk near the attacks in Cuban military uniforms. They would then pretend to capture those men. Fires would be set, planes would be burned, facilities would be bombed, ships would be attacked and, later, even funerals for the simulated victims. Lemnitzer said they would publish lists of victims in all the major newspapers, along with sad stories, to gain enough popular support to initiate an invasion of Cuba.

In Part 4 of the proposal, he wrote: “We could develop a campaign of terror against communist Cuba in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington.” He said the “injuries” to innocent people would be given “wide publicity.” They wanted to “explode” some plastic bombs “in carefully chosen places.” American citizens would be outraged and of course say yes, go and kill those communist terrorist bastards. As crazy as it sounds, it was normal. This subversion was not unusual during the Cold War. Lemnitzer said that the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff were on board with the plan and that the CIA was working flat out to make it happen.

They believed that evil communists had to be stopped at any cost, which partly explains why the CIA committed or encouraged human rights abuses around the world during the Cold War. This was the political environment that JFK entered when he was elected president. To appreciate the JFK assassination conspiracy theory, you have to understand the lengths to which certain people in the US military and intelligence would go. Kennedy dismissed Operation Northwoods and told Lemnitzer and other key advisors that he could not foresee anything in the near future that would “justify and make desirable the use of American forces for open military action” in Cuba.

All this is well documented, as is everything we will tell you today. JFK was isolated in his own government, according to the conspiracy theory. He had already lost the support of many of his advisors after the Bay of Bigs incident in 1961, when the CIA secretly sent 1,400 Cuban exiles they had trained to Cuba. Kennedy was a much younger president, with different ideas about how to do politics. This plan had been drawn up during the Eisenhower administration before him, and although JFK ruled out similar plans during his tenure, at the end of the day, he was expected to do what he was told.

This all began when Castro's forces overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959. The CIA now wanted to oust Castro, just as it had already successfully covertly done with leaders in Iran and Guatemala, with many assassinations on the way. To do the job, Cuban exiles were trained by the United States in guerrilla training camps in Guatemala. American involvement was supposed to be kept secret, which did not happen. Everything was a total disaster. Castro's troops won and then captured many of the exiles. Later, Kennedy told his friends that the Bay of Pigs was “a trap.” The older men around him had thought that he would be drawn to send troops.

He told his friends Dave Powers and Ken O'Donnell: "They were sure he would give in to them." And he added: "They couldn't believe that a new president like me wouldn't panic." He said: "I had been found out all wrong." JFK didn't trust many of the older guys who advised him, and especially CIA Director Allen Dulles. Dulles admitted in his memoirs found after his death that the plan was always to get Kennedy to send troops rather than "allow the enterprise to fail." Instead, JFK gave Cuba $53 million in baby food and medicine in exchange for the prisoners Castro had taken.

It was a total embarrassment, and even though JFK gave the green light to Castro's assassination plans, he still had to continue pushing back against the hawks around him who kept telling him to invade Cuba. Then there was Vietnam. The United States had been active in Vietnam for years. In 1954, Vice President Richard Nixon said, “If the French pulled out, the United States might have to take a chance now and bring in our own guys.” The CIA later assisted French forces through its Saigon Military Mission (SMM), leading paramilitary campaigns against the communists and assisting with propaganda. The United States even considered using tactical nuclear weapons in Vietnam to aid the beleaguered French under Operation Vulture.

Much later, in May 1961, JFK agreed to send 500 Special Forces troops and military advisors to assist the pro-Western government of South Vietnam. A year later, nearly 11,000 American military advisers were working in South Vietnam, and of course Kennedy approved. The Americans did not want the communists to invade Southeast Asia. So under JFK, the American presence did indeed increase, but Kennedy would soon begin to think differently about Vietnam. He was under a lot of pressure to send real combat troops to Vietnam. As the Pentagon Papers later showed, he was willing to send advisers and let the CIA do what it had to do, but he was against sending “units capable of independent combat.” The Pentagon Papers, by the way, were thousands of pages of top-secret Defense Department actions up to 1968 in Indochina.

They were published in 1971 and showed the American public a very different side of military America, which would include secret campaigns in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and result in many, many thousands of civilian deaths. The CIA was out of control, which probably wouldn't have happened if JFK hadn't been eliminated. That's what conspiracy theorists think. Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst and activist behind the Pentagon Papers, had always been unsure of Kennedy's position on Vietnam. It didn't seem to make sense for him to send more men and still remain reluctant to send combat troops. So he asked JFK's brother, Robert Kennedy (RFK), when he got the chance in 1967.

RFK, who would soon be assassinated (1968), also told him that his brother had rejected “the urgent advice of every one of his seniors.” charges.” military and civil officials”, that he was to send the troops. Years later, Ellsberg recorded this conversation and said this is what RFK had said when asked why his brother didn't send those combat troops. RFK said: “Because we were already there in 1951! We saw what was happening to the French. We saw it. “My brother was determined, determined to never let that happen to us.” JFK knew what would happen in part thanks to Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, whom he had sent on a fact-finding mission to South Vietnam in 1962.

Mansfield returned and told JFK that entering a war in Vietnam would be a mistake. JFK subsequently signed National Security Action Memorandum 217, which prohibited “high-ranking military and civilian personnel” from entering South Vietnam without authorization from the State Department. This shook the Pentagon. JFK told Mansfield that he was thinking about a complete withdrawal from Vietnam, but that he would wait. His real words were: "But I can't do it until 1965, after I'm re-elected." If he tried before, the conservatives would criticize him and he could lose some of the votes. JFK told his friend and consultant, a man we mentioned earlier, Kenneth O'Donnell: “In 1965, I will become one of the most unpopular presidents in history. “I will be condemned everywhere for being a communist appeaser, but I don’t care.” McNamara later surprised the military hierarchy at a meeting in Honolulu when he told them that “1,000 American military personnel” were going to be “withdrawn from South Vietnam by the end of calendar year 63.” McNamara told them to make concrete plans.

It seems that the military had other ideas. After JFK's death, those combat troops were sent in en masse. This came as US officials and subsequently the media said there had been an unprovoked attack on US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. But the facts about this attack were, at best, manipulated and, at worst, completely fabricated. They served as a pretext to go to war with Vietnam. The “Gulf of Tonkin Resolution” drafted by Congress gave the president virtually unlimited power to do whatever he wanted in Southeast Asia, a power that was largely exercised by both Lyndon B.

Johnson and, later, Richard Nixon. Nearly 200 documents that the National Security Agency (NSA) declassified in 2005 and 2006 show us that Congress was misled. We won't go into all the details today, but what was said and what happened were two very different things, and at the time the misinformation was enough to make the war with Vietnam seem justifiable. But JFK's Vietnam withdrawal plan wasn't everything. In July 1993, a Canadian newspaper, through a freedom of information request, declassified 21 secret letters written between JFK and Khrushchev. They talked about mountains and lakes and other beautiful things, and they also talked about atomic weapons and the destruction of the world.

In one letter, Khrushchev compared his situation to the mythological Noah's Ark, saying that they could see each other as clean and unclean, but in the larger scheme of things, they were together on the same Ark and wanted the same thing. They didn't want to blow up the whole world. JFK responded by saying that he liked that analogy and added: “Whatever our differences, our collaboration in keeping the peace is as urgent, if not more so, than our collaboration in winning the last world war.” It is possible that in those letters they remained on friendly terms, but that did not stop the Cuban missile crisis.

After the Americans deployed missiles in Italy and Türkiye, the Soviets deployed ballistic missiles in Cuba. This was a fight talk. In fact, it is generally thought that what happened next was the closest the world came to nuclear war, even though both countries knew that many, many millions of innocent people would die.New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, portrayed in Kevin Costner's film JFK, called Mohrenschildt a CIA “nanny.” Garrison said some members of Mohrenschildt's family told him that Oswald had been made a scapegoat for the JFK assassination. Mohrenschildt's wife and daughter said on the record that he was the one who got Oswald a job in Dallas at a graphic arts company.

This company, Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall, was, according to the Warren Commission, simply a normal “commercial advertising” company, and omitted the fact that the company manufactured highly classified maps for the US military, possibly maps of Cuba and the Soviet Union. , which Oswald could have helped with. Three hours after Mohrenschildt opened his mouth about her relationship with Oswald, he was found dead in a Florida home. This occurred just minutes after Gaeton Fonzi, an investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, knocked on his door and left a card. Writer James Douglass, whose research we have used extensively today for this program, believes that Mohrenschildt was just a "pawn in the game." Garrison understood very well that people who spoke tended to die suddenly, which is why he withheld a female witness who we will discuss later.

We will also show you a lot of very mysterious deaths. The man who ran the CIA's counterintelligence programs between 1954 and 1967 was James Jesus Angleton. This Yale graduate was a fervent anti-communist and was the head of the CIA assassination program, which he ran along with Army Colonel Boris Pash. The latter is most famous for investigating Robert Oppenheimer for alleged espionage activities for the Soviets in relation to the atomic bomb. Pash also led the ALSOS mission when the Americans attempted to capture Nazi scientists who had worked on the atomic bomb and chemical weapons. After that, he took charge of the CIA's so-called Wet Affairs, which were assassination and kidnapping programs.

When the Church Committee and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) investigated these men, they discovered that Angleton's Special Investigations Group had a file on Lee Harvey Oswald. It was called File 201. The CIA had this on Oswald for three years before JFK was

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. The Warren Commission had not reached this conclusion, and if it had, things might have turned out very differently. 201 files were for CIA agents who had to be watched closely because they became suspicious. But what's also interesting here is that documents were unearthed showing that the CIA had been creating fake 201 files for the ZR/RIFLE project, which was linked to the assassinations of political leaders.

The reason some of these files were falsified was so that one day the CIA could use that person as a scapegoat. They could say, look, we already knew this agent was up to no good, and then put all the blame on him. The HSCA interviewed a woman named Anne Egerter. She had worked for Angleton and had seen Oswald's 201 file. It was her testimony that showed us that Oswald was actually a CIA asset, but that he was under CIA investigation or, perhaps, being groomed to become a scapegoat. We should say that she was indirect with her answers when they interviewed her, but investigators now say that her testimony “strongly implies that Oswald was in fact a member of the CIA or was being used in an operation involving members of the CIA.” INC".

Former CIA finance officer Jim Wilcott also supported the fact that Oswald was a CIA asset. Wilcott became a whistleblower who said he left the CIA when he realized that the work they were doing had nothing remotely to do with “humanism.” His wife, who was also in the CIA, also left. They both testified that if they left, they would be able to “sleep better at night.” Jim testified that another reason was that while working at the Tokyo station, other CIA agents open-mouthed him that the CIA

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JFK. Jim testified: “I thought these guys were crazy, but then a man I knew and had worked with before showed up for a payout and told me that Lee Harvey Oswald was a CIA employee. “I didn’t believe him until he told me the cryptonym under which Oswald had withdrawn the funds.” Jim then realized that he himself had advanced funds under this same cryptonym, which, in his eyes, partly implicated him in the murder of his beloved president.

In 1978, after Jim left what he considered a disgraceful agency, he told the San Francisco Chronicle: “It was common knowledge at the CIA station in Tokyo that Oswald worked for the agency.” It was also widely known that he had been hired to become a double agent and spy on Russia. Jim explained: "Oswald was drafted into the military for the express purpose of becoming a double agent assigned to the USSR... More than once, I was told something like 'so-and-so was working on the Oswald project back in the day.' ". End of the 50's". He added: “One of the reasons given for the need to take down Oswald was the difficulties they had with him when he returned.

Apparently, he knew that the Russians were following him from the beginning, and this made him very angry.” After this kind of talk, life became very difficult for both Walcotts, which, as you will soon see, happened to many people. They followed them everywhere. They struggled to find work. The tires of their cars were slashed. They periodically received threatening phone calls. Now we should talk about Richard Case Nagell, a CIA double agent who was arrested on September 20, 1963, after entering the State National Bank in El Paso, Texas, and firing two shots into the ceiling. He said he had gotten himself arrested on purpose because “I would rather be arrested than commit murder and treason.” Nagell had worked for Field Operations Intelligence, which was tasked with covering up the "true nature of CIA objectives." As a double agent, he also worked for the KGB and one of his tasks was to monitor Lee Harvey Oswald.

Nagell admitted all this later, at a time when fewer people believed that Oswald had acted alone in killing JFK or even he had acted. Nagell also said that the KGB knew about the JFK assassination plot before it occurred. He said: "If anyone wanted to stop the murder, it was the KGB." JFK was a much better leader for the Soviets than anyone who could replace him. The KGB told Nagell to kill Oswald or at least try to convince him that he was being groomed to become a scapegoat. He told her when he met Oswald in New Orleans.

Nagell also sent FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover a certified letter, saying that he had been ordered to kill Oswald and that there was a plan to assassinate JFK. Nagell believed that he would somehow be involved in this murder, so he had himself arrested. Jim Garrison interviewed him and later said that he was "the most important witness there is." Nagell said that after speaking with Garrison, he survived three attempts on his life and then agreed to stay quiet to receive a good pension. But what about his letter to Hoover? He said he wrote it in a way "to persuade the reader that the sender was familiar with CIA procedure, that it was not an odd letter." He used the alias "Joseph Kramer", the pseudonym of a well-known Soviet agent in the United States.

Surely that would mean that the FBI knew what was going to happen to JFK. The FBI has always denied receiving such a letter. Since there are no lyrics, Nagell has been painted as a loon. But then, in 1995, the Murder Records Review Board (ARRB) contacted Nagell and told him that they would take him seriously as long as he told them everything and gave them all the documents he had that could prove he was telling the truth. They sent him a letter saying that on November 1, 1995, which was the day he was found dead in the bathroom of his house in Los Angeles.

It was said that it was a heart attack, even though he was in good health and had no heart problems. We should add that under MKUltra, the CIA worked on methods to cause heart attacks in people. His son, Richard, was left the key to a warehouse in Tucson, Arizona, where his father had told her that he kept all of his documents in a purple trunk, which contained everything related to Richard's stay. him in the CIA. When Richard arrived, he found all of his father's things, except the purple trunk. He has left. It was also strange that on the day Richard went to Arizona, his house was broken into and looted.

How strange... We should also mention Thomas Arthur Vallee, the man believed to have been the first CIA scapegoat to be blamed for JFK's assassination on November 2 in Chicago instead of November 22 in Dallas. This only became public four decades after JFK's assassination. Information about Vallee, the fact that he looked like Oswald and had a background similar to Oswald's, was never available to federal agents in Dallas at the time of JFK's visit. The murder in Chicago failed, but Vallee was still arrested. Vallee's file said he was a far-right, gun-obsessed, reclusive and paranoid lunatic. This fits right in with what the CIA liked to call lone actors when they needed to frame someone for a crime.

The Secret Service learned of the Chicago assassination plot, so they rushed to Vallee's home, where they found an M-1 rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition. They told Chicago police to monitor this man 24 hours a day. A day later, police officers Daniel Groth and Peter Schurla stopped Vallee's car and found a hunting knife in the back. There were 300 rounds of ammunition in the trunk. When investigators later interviewed Vallee, he told them that he had worked in Japan on U2's secret program. They discovered that the license plate of his car had been frozen. Reporters were told that the information on the license plate was classified.

As for those two detectives, they had amazing careers in police intelligence. Academic Daniel Stern investigated Groth's police career and said he had never had anything resembling a normal career. He was missing for long periods. He and other investigators said Groth actually worked for counterintelligence. Had they been part of a plot to make Vallee a scapegoat, placed there in case the assassination was successful? Vallee's sister, Mary, believes that her brother was groomed as a potential killer. She said Thomas was never the crazy loner he had been portrayed as, although he had a history of some mental health problems.

For this reason, he was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps in September 1956. What's more, Vallee later told journalist Edwin Black that he had worked for the CIA at a training camp on Long Island, training Cuban exiles in the art of murder. Like Oswald, he had somehow managed to find a job right where the assassination attempt would occur in Chicago, where JFK's motorcade would pass. It was as if his life was twice as long as Oswald's. Further investigation showed that Vallee also had access to a window at his new workplace that had the perfect view of the motorcade that would pass through Chicago.

The Secret Service heard that two snipers with high-powered rifles were believed to be waiting for the president to pass by. The Secret Service, upon learning of the threat, arrested three men as possible snipers and two others were detained. These men were in custody just when Chicago police arrested Vallee. The possible snipers arrested that day were also not known to the public for decades. Abraham Bolden, the first black person to protect the president, was there in Chicago. He later said that he couldn't understand why some of JFK's security was so lax. He said some of the men were drunk half the time.

Bolden began to draw lines between what happened in Chicago and what happened in Dallas. On May 17, 1964 he attempted to call the Warren Commission to inform them of this, but he was unsuccessful. On May 18 he was arrested and charged with attempting to sell Secret Service files. He was disgraced, although there was hardly any evidence. At his Chicago home, while he was in prison, his garage was burned down. He once shot himself through a window, scaring his wife and children. When he spoke to Jim Garrison, he was subsequently placed in solitary confinement. In 1995, when the AARB took over the case, the Secret Service destroyed all records of the Chicago plot after AARB investigators requested access to them.

So this theory says that Oswald was framed. But to incriminate him, he needed to be seen doing a lot of sketchy things before the investigation, more than just going to Russia or appearing pro-Cuba. This is where doubling him comes into play. Before the assassination, there were many sightings of a man who looked like Oswald. He was seen at a shooting range on a few occasions. The theory goes that the CIA was trying to make this man appearguilty sending a double to the local shooting range. One of the Warren Commission witnesses, Malcolm Price, said someone who looked like Oswald asked for help with his rifle scope at a Dallas shooting range.

Witness Garland Slack said he was at another firing range, and this Oswald character drew attention by "burning his ammunition" at Slack's own target. Slack said that when he complained, the man gave him “a look” that he “would never forget.” The problem was that when the Warren Commission was briefed on these events, Oswald was supposed to be in Mexico City visiting the Russian and Cuban embassies. There were too many Oswalds. Conspiracy theorists say they were not just setting up Oswald, but framing the entire Soviet Union in a Cold War they needed the American public to support. Four days before JFK was shot to death, the Soviet embassy in Washington received a letter written by Oswald or, at least, signed by Oswald.

J. Edgar Hoover's FBI read the letter before it even got there. In the letter, Oswald admitted to meeting with Valery Kostikov, the KGB's undercover assassination specialist. Then the man who apparently killed JFK, four days before killing him, sent a letter talking about dating a Soviet assassin. This was a perfect setup. But how do we know Oswald wrote the letter, conspiracy theorists ask. The Russian ambassador wrote: “This letter was clearly a provocation. It seems like we had close ties to Oswald.” He said the United States should have been aware of the letter. He added that whoever wrote it was undoubtedly behind the murder.

When Lydon Johnson became president after JFK, he actually decided not to scapegoat the Soviet Union, but he did not question the fact that Oswald was guilty. The Warren Commission would later discover that Oswald's plan was to escape by plane to Cuba after taking down the president. Obviously, this did not happen as Oswald was arrested and then shot dead by someone we will talk about later, Jack Ruby, perhaps not a man who was who you think he was. Oswald didn't fly away, but he had to look like he had planned to do so. The scapegoat needed a fake escape.

On November 20, 1963, a car entered Red Bird Airfield outside Dallas. He parked near the American Aviation Company, a private airline. A man stayed in the car and a woman and a man entered the office. They said they wanted a Cessna 310 by November 22 and wanted to fly to Yucatan in Mexico, not far from Cuba. Wayne January, who was the owner, became suspicious when he was asked many strange questions, such as how far the plane would go, how fast, and where else could they fly besides Mexico. They were amateurish-sounding questions, the kind a child or a criminal would ask.

January also said that he had looked in the car at the guy who didn't get in and, unsurprisingly, said he was Lee Harvey Oswald. He said it after the murder, of course. Red Bird Airfield was only 5 miles from where Oswald lived. In 1991, through a freedom of information request, a Briton named Matthew Smith obtained the FBI report on the Red Bird Airfield incident. Smith then flew to the US to find Wayne January and told him what the FBI had said about the incident. January was shocked. The FBI had written that the incident occurred in July, not November, two days before the murder.

He also said that January wasn't sure it was Oswald in the car when he told them it was probably him. His exact words were: I gave them "a nine out of ten chance." The reason for the lies, conspiracy theorists say, is that in January testimony, he had said that he thought those two people were thinking about hijacking a plane to Cuba. After President Johnson decided not to implicate Cuba or the Soviet Union in JFK's death, they now had no need for this incident at Red Bird Airfield. It had to be downplayed. Just half a day after the Red Bird Airfield incident, a Louisiana police lieutenant named Francis Fruge was called to a hospital in Eunice, Louisiana.

There he met women suffering from opiate withdrawal. His name was Rose Charmaine. He said she had been driving with two men, who then kicked her out of the Silver Slipper bar where they were drinking and ran her over. Fruge took her to another hospital where she could more comfortably undergo withdrawal, and on the two-hour drive, Charmaine told him that the two guys she was driving with had told her they were going to kill the president when she got there. Dallas. . She said they were Cuban or Italian. Of course, he didn't think much of it since she was in a bit of a state at the time.

But when JFK was shot two days later, Fruge called the hospital and told them not to let Charmaine out of there. He couldn't believe it. Had he

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known? After JFK was killed, they contacted the FBI about what she had told them and were told they already had her man. They didn't want to know about Charmaine's story. In a strange twist of fate, it also came to light that Charmaine had once worked for the nightclub owner, Jack Ruby. She also told Fruge that through Ruby she had met Lee Harvey Oswald. She explained that Ruby and Oswald were quite close.

She never testified about this in the subsequent JFK investigations. On September 4, 1965 she was found dead in the middle of a road in Big Sandy, Texas. The driver of the car that hit her said that she had swerved to avoid some suitcases piled up on the road, but that when she swerved she ran over a dead body. It has never been explained why a woman was lying on the road next to a pile of suitcases at three in the morning. Dr. Charles Crenshaw, who later wrote a book about the JFK assassination, said her autopsy showed the type of head wound usually associated with a gunshot wound.

He might not have even hit her with that car. Jim Garrison wanted to exhume her body, but the state of Texas denied her request. When Mac Manual, the owner of Sliver Slipper, was later interviewed, he identified the two men he was with as Sergio Smith and Emilio Santana, two Cuban exiles. Santana told Jim Garrison that he had worked for the CIA in 1962, when he first arrived in Miami. He was involved in moving weapons by sea for guerrillas in Cuba. The CIA admitted to using him, but said they terminated his contract in 1963. Charmaine's story may seem incredible, but it is a little strange that she talked about knowing that JFK was going to be assassinated at a time when she was seen with Cuban agents of the CIA.

Conspiracy theorists say this is just one coincidence among hundreds of strange coincidences. As for the other man, Smith, he had once been arrested in Venezuela accused of plotting to kill President Ernesto Betancourt, the so-called “father of Venezuelan democracy.” Records show Smith was released from prison and the U.S. Embassy came to his aid. He went directly to New Orleans, where he worked with a group of Cuban exiles, and there he befriended detective/intelligence agent Guy Bannister, who also knew Oswald. A small world, huh… say the conspiracy theorists. Bannister and Smith had offices in the same building, the Balter Building.

Witness David Lewis, who worked for Bannister, later testified that Oswald and Smith knew each other. Ok, let's move forward a little. Julia Ann Mercer, 23, said that on the day JFK was assassinated, she saw a green truck parked near Dealey Plaza, where the president would be assassinated in an hour and a half. A man got out of the truck and took out what she described as a rifle case. The man then walked towards an area that would later be known as the grassy knoll. She said there were three police officers nearby and none of them did anything against this man walking around with a rifle holster.

He then stopped next to the truck and looked at the driver. She looked at him clearly, but she only recognized him two days later, when she saw his face on television. She was absolutely sure that the guy driving the truck was Jack Ruby. She said it long before anyone asked her questions about a conspiracy. After seeing the guy with the rifle, she was overheard telling her friends at a restaurant. Police officers later stopped her and told her that they had overheard her talking about seeing a man with a rifle and, furthermore, that the president had just been shot.

She was then questioned for four hours at a Dallas police station. When Jim Garrison later interviewed her, he showed her and her husband the statements he had made to the police. She looked at them and said that she had never said anything like that. Her actual words to Garrison were: “Everyone has been altered. “They make me say just the opposite of what I

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told them.” She said officers had given her photographs of who might have been driving the green truck to look at. She picked up one of them and said it was probably him. She turned it over and on it was written: Jack Ruby. "They definitely showed me Jack Ruby, and I definitely chose him because he looked like the driver," she told Garrison.

Imagine if this had come to light right before Ruby killed Oswald. It would have been huge, but police wrote that Mercer had been unable to identify the truck driver. She told Garrison that she told her family the day she saw Ruby on television that this was the guy she had seen driving the truck. She then notified the FBI that she had not only seen Ruby in the photo but that she had seen him again on television, but this was not in any FBI report. The only thing the official report said was that, indeed, one of the photos they had shown him was of Ruby, but they said that she had not chosen him.

Garrison told her that the FBI report said she said the words "Air Conditioning" were written on the truck, but she told Garrison that she had told the FBI that the truck had nothing written on it. "I said clearly there was no print on the truck," she told Garrison. But that didn't stop agents from spending two days searching for the Air Conditioning truck. She also told Garrison: “None of the signatures on these two pages of this affidavit are mine, although they are close imitations.” On the day of the murder, Sheriff Bill Decker and Police Chief Jesse Curry were nervous.

They knew the president would be exposed. The Secret Service had told them both to ease security that day. Decker had told his men that they “would not take part in the security of the presidential motorcade.” The House Select Committee on Assassinations later said that both men were simply following orders from the Secret Service, orders that proved fatal for the President. The Secret Service said JFK was the one who didn't want officers around him, but later interviews refute this. Air Force Colonel Fletcher Prouty, who had protected President Eisenhower before, said that all windows in nearby buildings should have been taped shut and issued a "Do Not Open" order.

But that never happened. There was a security vacuum for JFK. Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig said that just after the president was shot, he saw a man running down the hill toward another man driving a light green Rambler pickup truck. He tried to stop them, but he couldn't cross the street and the car started moving. Craig then ran to the Texas school book depository to inform the Secret Service. There he met a man claiming to be from the Secret Service, who, according to Craig, didn't seem very interested in what he had to say. Craig later went to the police station and spoke with Captain Will Fritz of the homicide division.

At that time, Fritz said they had a man connected to the murder. Craig asked to look at him to see if he was the same man he had seen running toward that light green Rambler. He was the same man! But how could that be? Oswald said, “That truck belongs to Mrs. Paine. Don’t try to drag her into this.” Mrs. Paine, with whom Oswald and his wife had stayed, owned a truck, but it was a Chevrolet BelAir. All of this would be disproven anyway when the Warren Commission said that Oswald left the building and got on a bus.

The witness, Helen Forrest, also said she saw the man get into a green Rambler. James Pennington corroborated what she saw, while some witnesses said they saw a man wearing a hat and a tan or brown sports jacket. Caroline Walther said she saw a man in the school book depository leaning out a window holding a rifle. Marvin Robinson and Roy Cooper saw a man running down the hill toward the green Rambler. The Warren Commission rejected all of these reports about a green Rambler. They couldn't use them because when they saw Oswald entering the Rambler, Officer Marion Baker and Roy Truly said they had seen Oswald on the second floor of the Texas Book Depository.

What about JFK's injuries? Said his wife, Jacqueline. “I was trying to hold her hair. But from the front there was nothing. But from behind, he could see,day. The doctors and nurses at least came forward and said yes and that what I had said was the truth. It did not matter. Once he had been slandered, there was always a shadow of doubt about him, conspiracy theorists say. Even the doctors who did the official autopsy were under pressure. They were told not to examine the throat. Navy medic Paul O'Connor was there. He said they were told to abandon the throat because the wound was just a tracheotomy, not a gunshot wound. “He became very tense,” he said in a later interview, adding: “We were all soldiers. “We could all be controlled.” According to this theory, Lieutenant William Bruce Pitzer, head of the Navy's audiovisual department, received something worse than a good smear.

He worked on a 16mm autopsy film for Bethesda. He saw everything. Medic First Class Dennis David saw Pitzer work on the film. They both knew what they saw, that JFK had undoubtedly been hit head-on. David later said in an interview: "I can assure you it was definitely an entry wound." He said it was “inconceivable” it could be anything else. David assumed that Pitzer had taken this film. He later realized that what he had seen would contradict evidence that a lone gunman shot JFK. Pitzer had the most important footage in America in his hands. On October 29, 1966, Pitzer's body was found on the floor of the National Naval Medical Center where he worked.

The FBI said he was found in a pool of blood with a gunshot wound to the head. Near the scene was a .38-caliber handgun. His family immediately said that what the FBI said had happened could not have happened. Pitzer was not depressed or suicidal. We know from his wife and friends that he was thinking about retiring from the military and taking a new job. David said: “They were afraid that he would take the photographs that he and I had seen, those 35mm slides and 16mm films, that he would have taken them with him.” Pitzer was thinking about moving to a major studio, so David said they feared Pitzer had given them this evidence to work with.

Neither the slides nor the film have ever been seen again. This supposedly incontrovertible evidence disappeared when Pitzer died. Naval intelligence went to his wife, Joyce, after his death and told her not to talk to anyone. She was silent for 25 years. Even at 80, she said she was afraid that if she spoke out she would be taken away from her pension. In fact, she had been told something incredible, something darker than the dark side of the moon. She had been visited by a retired Army Special Forces lieutenant named Daniel Marvin. She said he told her in 1965 that the CIA had approached him with a mission.

The job was to murder her husband. She always knew someone had killed him, but Marvin said he wasn't the man to do it. She had refused to eliminate anyone on American soil, but she was still telling him that someone from the CIA had killed her husband. Marvin had been a Green Beret and later trained as an assassin at a secret training camp at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. It was called the Special War School. During that training, he and others were told that a perfect assassination of a government leader would involve using snipers and grooming a crazed madman who could easily fit the description the public would believe.

In fact, in 1966, the CIA asked Marvin to assassinate Cambodian Crown Prince Norodum Sihanouk and make it look like the work of the Viet Cong. The operation was later aborted, but Marvin said his entire military career consisted of such covert operations. He told Mrs. Pitzer that one day Colonel Clarence W. Pattern called him into the office and told him that he was meeting with a "company man." This man from the company asked him if he would be willing to execute a man who posed a risk to national security. Marvin assumed this would be in Southeast Asia, where he had worked before, so when he was told that the target was Willian Pitzer and that he was in the United States, he refused.

He said he would only do it if Pitzer was abroad. Marvin later said in an interview: "It was common knowledge in mafia and CIA circles that the Company used Green Berets to take out selected targets in foreign countries, while the mafia provided the group of assassins for CIA for attacks on the United States. Marvin was also in contact with Captain David Vanek. He said in later interviews that Vanek, with whom he had trained in murder matters, could have killed Pitzer. In 1993, Marvin went looking for Vanek, hoping that he would admit what they had done in the '60s.

He said that when he contacted the Department of Veterans Services, they told him that Vanek did not exist. There was no record of him. That's when Marvin thought, hmm, they got him out too. But AARB found Vanek in 1996. By then, he was a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps. Vanek admitted to training at the Special Warfare School, but said he didn't know Marvin. He also said that he did not remember a meeting with a Company man and that he did not know William Pitzer. An investigation showed that Vanek had worked for a covert CIA organization in Thailand from 1965 to 1967.

As for Jack Ruby, while in prison, a doctor diagnosed him as psychotic. He had apparently lost his mind, although according to documents discussed in Tom O'Neill's book CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties, Ruby was perfectly healthy and in good mental shape when they visited him recently. . days before that diagnosis and every time before that. How come he suddenly started suffering from psychosis? The New York Times wrote on March 10, 1964: “MIND EXPERT SAYS RUBY WAS CRAZY.” Anything he said now would be the words of a madman, which conspiracy theorists said were useful to some people.

The man who diagnosed Ruby as psychotic was Louis Jolyon West, a doctor who eventually became famous for giving people large amounts of lysergic acid diethylamide in his top-secret work on the MKULTRA interrogation, hypnosis and mind control program. One of the people who spoke the most about JFK's conspiracies, and apparently how ridiculous they were, was prosecutor and author Vincent Bugliosi. This same man threatened to sue Tom O'Neill when, during the 25 years O'Neill researched his Manson book, he discovered that Bugliosi's famous book, Helter Skelter, was full of demonstrable lies and completely ignored the numerous CIA connections to the Manson murders.

It's just another coincidence that Bugliosi became a sort of spokesperson for the CIA and the US government by detailing how the conspiracy theories were not true. According to James Beaird, who often played poker with Ruby in the past, Ruby stored and shipped weapons to rebels in Cuba for the CIA. Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen was working on a story about Ruby's connections to the CIA when he mysteriously died. She had just had an interview with Ruby when she was found dead in her Manhattan home, apparently from alcohol and sleeping pills. Next to her body was a glass with dust, as if someone had crushed some pills.

In the 1952 CIA assassination manual, in the “techniques” section, the third part describes how a forced overdose is “effective” and “not easy to detect.” Kilgallen had worked for 18 months on the JFK story and conducted numerous interviews. She called the Warren Commission report “laughable.” She said she would shake America with her story, and then she died, and according to the book, “The Reporter Who Knew Too Much,” her death had the CIA written all over it. Jim Garrison always said that Ruby was working for the CIA, not as an agent, but as a mafia asset, since many mafia gangsters back then worked for the CIA, in exchange for favors.

Ruby knew that if she killed Oswald, he would be next, conspiracy theorists say. That's how it happened. At 3 a.m. the previous Sunday, she called police officer Billy Grammer. Grammer then confirmed that the speaker was Ruby. Ruby told Grammer, "If you move Oswald the way you plan, we will kill him." Grammer later said that Ruby was trying to thwart his own assassination job so he wouldn't end up having to do it and die himself. The Dallas Sheriff's Office received calls at 2:15 a.m. and at 2:30 a.m. from a man who said Oswald was about to be assassinated.

Still, Ruby defied reason when she was able to enter the police station and walk up to Oswald. This should not have been possible, especially after those two phone calls. You've heard a lot today and there's more to this story, but what you've heard is the general outline of a conspiracy theory that has convinced many people to question the official narrative. The question is, are you one of those people now? Now you need to watch “Inside the CIA's Terrifying 'Bedroom.'” Or take a look at “How They Got Charles Manson.”