JFK Page #46

We hear vague ad-lib mutterings on the soundtrack indicating

a friendly atmosphere, and we see stock footage of a C-130

transport flying to Antarctica and ice floes on the surface

of the sea.

Then, at a New Zealand airport, we see X, in a uniform, at a

newsstand reading of Kennedy's assassination. The banner

headline of an "Extra" edition of The Christchurch Star

screams out "KENNEDY SHOT DEAD."

X:

It wasn't until I was on my way back

in New Zealand that I read of the

President's murder. That was 2 in

the afternoon the next day New Zealand

time, but already the papers had the

entire history of an unknown 24-year-

old man, Oswald - a studio picture,

detailed biographical data, Russian

information - and were pretty sure

of the fact he'd killed the President

alone, although it took them four

more hours to charge him with the

murder in Texas. It felt as if,

well, a cover story was being put

out like we would in a black op.

Back at the Pentagon office, we see X returning and meeting

Y. The atmosphere is cordial, but Y is slightly different

from before - more harried, more nervous. He turns away to

light a cigarette, he doesn't want the usual conversation.

X:

Anyway, after I came back I asked

myself why was I, the chief of special

ops, selected to travel to the South

Pole at that time to do a job that

any number of others could have done?

One of my routine duties if I had

been in Washington would've been to

arrange for additional security in

Texas. The Secret Service is

relatively small, and by custom the

military will augment them. I checked

it out when I got back and sure

enough, I found out someone had told

the 112th Military Intelligence Group

at 4th Army Headquarters at Fort Sam

Houston to "stand down" that day,

over the protests of the unit

Commander, a Colonel Reich...

We see an outdoor shot of the Texas Army Headquarters on a

day in 1963. Inside, on the same day, Col. Reich is on the

phone, puzzled.

X:

Now this is significant, because it

is standard operating procedure,

especially in a known hostile city

like Dallas, to supplement the Secret

Service. Even if we had not allowed

the bubbletop to be removed from the

limousine, we'd've put at least 100

to 200 agents on the sidewalks,

without question! There'd already

been several attempts on de Gaulle's

life in France. Only a month before

in Dallas UN Ambassador Adlai

Stevenson had been spit on and hit.

We'd have arrived days ahead of time,

studied the route, checked all the

buildings...

We never would've allowed all those

wide-open empty windows overlooking

Dealey... never... We would have

had our own snipers covering the

area. The moment a window went up

they'd have been on the radio. We

would've been watching the crowds -

packages, rolled up newspapers, a

coat over an arm, never would have

let a man open an umbrella along the

way - Never would've allowed that

limousine to slow down to 10 miles

per hour, much less take that unusual

curve at Houston and Elm. You would

have felt an Army presence in the

streets that day, but none of this

happened. It was a violation of the

most basic protection codes we have.

And it is the best indication of a

massive plot in Dallas. Who could

have best done that? People in my

business, Mr. Garrison. People like

my superior officer could've told

Col. Reich, "Look - we have another

unit coming from so and so providing

security. You'll stand down." That

day, in fact, there were some

individual Army Intelligence people

in Dallas and I'm still trying to

figure out who and why. But they

weren't protecting the client. One

of them, by the way, was caught in

the Book Depository after police

sealed it off.

In Dealey Plaza, 1963, we see an Army intelligence man taking

a shot with a Minolta camera.

X:

Army Intell had a "Harvey Lee Oswald"

on file, but all those files have

been destroyed. Many strange things

were happening that day, and Lee

Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with

them. We had the entire Cabinet on

a trip to the Far East. We had a

third of a combat division returning

from Germany in the air above the

United States at the time of the

shooting, and at 12:34 P.M., the

entire telephone system went dead in

Washington for a solid hour, and on

the plane back to Washington, word

was radioed from the White House

Situation Room to Lyndon Johnson

that one individual performed the

assassination. Does that sound like

a bunch of coincidences to you, Mr.

Garrison? Not for one moment. The

cabinet was out of the country to

get their perception out of the way.

The troops were in the air for

possible riot control. The phones

didn't work to keep the wrong stories

from spreading if anything went wrong

with the plan. Nothing was left to

chance. I bet you there were even

backup teams and cars on the other

side of the underpass in the event

that Kennedy got through wounded.

They would have moved in with vehicles

like they did with de Gaulle. He

could not be allowed to escape alive.

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