JFK Page #47

The camera is on Jim, listening. This information is much

greater than he ever envisioned, and he is stunned. X pauses.

X:

I never though things were the same

after that. Vietnam started for

real. There was an air of, I don't

know, make-believe in the Pentagon

and the CIA. Those of us who'd been

in secret ops since the beginning

knew the Warren Commission was

fiction, but there was something...

deeper, uglier. And I knew Allen

Dulles very well. I briefed him

many a time in his house. He was

also General Y's benefactor. But

for the life of me I still can't

figure out why Dulles was appointed

to investigate Kennedy's death. The

man who had fired him. I got out in

'64. I retired from the U.S. Air

Force.

JACKIE KENNEDY:

I never realized Kennedy was so

dangerous to the establishment. Is

that why?

X:

(chuckles)

That's the real question, isn't it -

"Why?" - the "how" is just "scenery"

for the suckers... Oswald, Ruby,

Cuba, Mafia, it keeps people guessing

like a parlor game, but it prevents

them from asking the most important

question - Why? Why was Kennedy

killed? Who benefitted? Who has

the power to cover it up?... You

know in '61 right after the Bay of

Pigs - very few people know about

this - I participated in drawing up

National Security Action Memos 55,

56, and 57. These are crucial

documents, classified top secret,

but basically in them Kennedy

instructs General Lemnitzer, Chairman

of the Joint Chiefs, that from here

on forward...

FLASHBACK TO the Pentagon offices on a day in 1961. A

document is moved by hand into Lemnitzer's office where we

see a set of hands holding it while it's read. There's a

look of surprise on Lemnitzer's face.

X:

... the Joint Chiefs of Staff would

be wholly responsible for all covert

paramilitary action in peacetime.

This basically ended the reign of

the CIA - "splintered it", as J.F.K.

promised he would, into a "thousand

pieces", - and now was ordering the

military to help. This was

unprecedented. I can't tell you the

shock waves this sent along the

corridors of power in Washington.

This and, of course, firing Allen

Dulles, Richard Bissell, and General

Charles Cabell, all of them sacred

cows of Intell since World War II.

You got some very upset people here.

DOCUMENTARY IMAGES flash on the screen - Allen Dulles, sweet-

faced, smiling, at the Warren Commission Hearing and visiting

Dealey Plaza; General Charles Cabell and Richard Bissell...

X:

Kennedy's directives were never really

implemented, because of bureaucratic

resistance, but one of the results

was that the Cuban operation was

turned over to my department as

"Operation Mongoose", which meant

that people like my superior officer,

General Y, took over the Cuban

personnel that were being trained to

invade Cuba - and the bases like the

training camp at Pontchartrain in

your home state that were closed

down by Kennedy... and that's how

the "black ops" people, people like

General Y, ended up taking the rules

of covert warfare they'd used abroad

and brought'em into this country.

Now they had the people, the

equipment, bases and the motivation...

check out an old CIA man, Bill Harvey -

ran something called "Executive

Action", which carried out foreign

assassinations. Harvey was also

involved with the fake defection

program that got Oswald into Russia.

Check out the Cabell brothers.

Interesting links to this case.

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