Friday, October 27, 2017

JFK files CUT OUT CIA director’s reply to whether Lee Harvey Oswald was a secret agent ...

JFK files CUT OUT CIA director’s reply to whether Lee Harvey Oswald was a secret agent ...

That was a strange item to redact, because the very fact of classification implies that there is something to hide. Would it have retained classified status if Helms had said, "Hell no"?

BREAKING NEWS: This point seems to be no longer relevant. Trump said Friday at 7:00 PM that he's changed his mind and will release 100% of the files with nothing redacted except names and addresses of people still living.

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  1. If you think about it, Oswald being an agent of Castro's makes a fair amount of sense, especially if Castro ordered the assassination without informing the Soviets.

    If the JFK assassination was Castro responding in kind to JFK's numerous CIA attempts on Castro's life, then LBJ would have a good reason to want the Warren Commission to hush the matter up. If the truth was made public, popular opinion in the US would clamor for war with Cuba, which would lead to WWIII and in all likelihood the extinction of humanity. And if the US tried to force the Soviets to abandon Castro on the grounds that the assassination was a unilateral act of war, the Soviets and Cubans could just point out all the CIA plots against Castro.

    So there was nothing to gain and everything to lose by letting a Cuban connection to Oswald come out.

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    1. I suppose there may have been something in Helms' answer that wandered in the direction you described. I can see why that would have been inflammatory in 1964, but I can't see how that would need to be redacted today. I hope we get to see the answer in the unedited version that Trump promised last night.

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