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And that's the way we receive ours.

Yes? Oh, Charlie.

Is that so?

I see.

Yes, of course

that would have worked out.

- Yeah.

- Thanks very much, Charlie.

- Quite all right.

- Bye.

Bye.

A conspiracy will make us

look like a banana republic.

We don't have them.

That's what we pay

our intelligence agencies to prevent.

They'll deny a conspiracy

down to the last man...

...lay the whole thing off...

...on some crazy damn fool

who did it all on his own.

- Who is the crazy damn fool?

- He'll be provided.

Charlie McCadden

just called from El Paso.

Governor Connally

just left the president.

And they made a private agreement...

...that he will make a political pilgrimage

to Texas to woo votes.

Probably in the fall.

There ought to be a better way

of settling things like this.

Have you researched the man's

private history?

- Thoroughly.

- Letters from the State Department?

Harold, if you'll forgive me...

...we're way ahead of you.

If we could find some way

to discredit him...

...believe me,

we would have done it by now.

Gentlemen, the hour is getting late.

Well, I'm sorry, gentlemen,

I'm still unconvinced.

I agree with you

that the welfare of this country...

...is worth any man's life,

even the president's.

My advice,

for what it's worth to you, is wait.

I'll see you to your car.

Harold.

Harold.

Oh, before I took over

Transjordanian oil...

...my own intelligence men

had to eliminate a little local opposition.

I understand these things.

I just don't like them.

They're tolerable

only if they're necessary...

...and permissible only if they work.

Good day.

I was in charge

of that Transjordanian operation.

The hell.

Arranged it through

the German intelligence.

My technician on that job

is out there right now training Team B.

Okay, Lee, take her up.

Okay, Chris, take it up.

Okay, Jess. Take it up to 15 feet.

Hold it. That's good.

Okay, hold it. That's good.

Okay, that's good. Lock it off.

Start the action.

Fire.

I got three hits on target.

One hit on Number 2. A miss.

Seven seconds and two misses.

It's probably a kill,

but we're two seconds over time...

...so we'll have

to slow the target down.

With the most accurate rifle

on Earth...

...we've still got a two-inch spread

on either side for every hundred yards.

So at 20 miles an hour,

it's too much.

Yeah.

Let's get a beer.

Commencement exercises

at American University...

...gained world significance

when President Kennedy reveals...

...two major decisions

on Western relations with Russia.

Addressing the graduates...

...Mr. Kennedy makes a stirring plea

for world peace and says:

First, Chairman Khrushchev...

...Prime Minister Macmillan

and I have agreed...

...that high-level discussions

will shortly begin in Moscow...

...looking towards early agreement

on a comprehensive test-ban treaty.

I now declare that the United States...

...does not propose to conduct

nuclear tests in the atmosphere...

...so long as other states

do not do so.

This generation of Americans

has already had enough-

More than enough.

- of war and hate and oppression.

Jim, sit down.

- Are you hungry?

- Thanks, I've eaten.

How's the team?

Well, it can be done

in five or six seconds...

...but only if we slow the target down

to 15 miles an hour.

Otherwise, you take chances.

All right, we'll work on that.

- Any cover problems?

- No. No problems.

Supposed to be hunters and I take it

that's what we actually are.

Correct.

Here's your expense money.

Say, when you gonna throw

a little light on this play?

It's not quite a standard operation.

I may run as tight as you are.

You mean is that each of us

knows only his own job?

Put it in any words you like.

The company must be running

other teams then. Are we number one?

Two teams only...

...and there's a good chance

that you'll see action.

Maybe before Thanksgiving.

How soon will we find out

what the options are?

The probabilities for success

are almost 100 percent.

Yeah, like the Bay of Pigs.

You're a high-risk man,

you're on contract.

Your men are all experienced

in black operations.

You take your chances

and you get paid for it and damn well.

Okay, Jim.

I'll tell you this much.

I've never seen a better cover plan

in all my life.

Every man jack will be

out of the country within 36 hours.

New passports, new identities...

...plus $25,000 each

just for spending money.

I like that. Tell me more.

You'll stay out of the country

for two years.

You'll receive $25,000 a year

via Switzerland for the next five years.

All of us?

I said every man jack

involved in the operation.

And five years from now,

on January 2nd, 1968...

...provided no one

has broken security...

...each man will find $ 100,000...

...in his own personally numbered

Swiss bank account.

Jesus.

You just told me who we're gonna hit.

This nation was founded by men

of many nations and backgrounds.

Okay.

It was founded on the principle

that men are created equal...

...and that the rights

of every man are diminished...

...when the rights of one man

are threatened.

My fellow Americans,

this is a problem which faces us all...

...in every city of the North

as well as the South.

Today,

there are Negroes unemployed...

...two or three times as many

compared to whites.

Inadequate education,

moving into the large cities...

...unable to find work,

denied their equal rights.

We cannot say

to 10 percent of the population...

...that "You can't have that right.

Your children can't have the chance

to develop whatever talents they have.

The only way that they'll get their rights

is to go in the street and demonstrate. "

I think we owe them and we owe

ourselves a better country than that.

The computer threw out

Or sponsors, as we like to call them.

A young man named Lee Harvey Oswald

seems the best.

Born in New Orleans, 1939.

Father dead.

Mother remarried and divorced.

Boy was in an orphanage for a while...

...then shunted about with his mother

till he was 17.

You can start now, Tim.

He has remarkably muddled

political record...

...that can be steered

strongly to the left.

On October 24, 1956,

seven days after his 17th birthday...

...subject enlisted

in the United States Marine Corps.

Attended

Aviation Fundamental School...

...at Naval Air Station

in Jacksonville, Florida...

...studying basic radar theory,

map reading...

...and air-traffic-control procedures.

Began studying Russian language

and taking pro-Communist attitudes.

Fellow Marines called him

"Oswaldavitch" and "Russki. "

In the Marine Corps?

Not a chance.

Preparing a cover for him.

- Naval Intelligence?

- Either that or CIA.

Go ahead, Tim.

Arrived in Yokosuka, Japan

aboard the Bexar...

...for assignment at Atsugi,

Isn't that where we monitored

the U-2s over China?

And a lot of other stuff.

Court-martialed on June 27th...

...for pouring a drink over

a non-commissioned officer's head...

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