{"id":49766,"date":"2019-11-23T06:20:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T11:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49766"},"modified":"2019-11-23T06:20:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T11:20:57","slug":"fk-what-the-cia-hides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49766","title":{"rendered":"FK: What the CIA Hides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

JFK: What the CIA Hides<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Photograph Source: Abbie Rowe \u2013 Public Domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When I launched JFK Facts,<\/a> a blog about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in 2012, I was often asked by strangers, \u201cSo who killed JFK?\u201d  \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d I shrugged. \u201cIt\u2019s too early to tell.\u201d Given that the handsome liberal president had been shot dead a half-century before, my answer was a lame joke based on an apocryphal story<\/a>. Henry Kissinger once said that when he asked Zhou Enlai, \u201cWhat was the effect of the French Revolution on world history?\u201d the Chinese statesmen replied, \u201cIt\u2019s too early to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

True to Kissingerian form, the story turns out to be not exactly true. Zhou was actually responding to a question about France\u2019s political convulsions in 1968, not 1789. But Kissinger\u2019s spin on the anecdote struck me as perceptive. The meaning of a great historical event might take a long time\u2013a very long time\u2013to become apparent. I didn\u2019t want to jump to conclusions about the causes of JFK\u2019s murder in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s still too early to tell. Fifty six years after the fact, historians and JFK researchers do not have access to all of the CIA\u2019s files on the subject The 1964 Warren Commission report exonerated the agency with its conclusion that Kennedy was killed by one man alone.  But the agency was subsequently the subject of five official JFK investigations, which cast doubt on its findings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senate\u2019s Church Committee investigation showed that the Warren Commission knew nothing of CIA assassination operations in 1963. JFK records released in the last 20 years show the Commission\u2019s attorneys had no real understanding the extensive counterintelligence monitoring of Lee Harvey Oswald before JFK was killed. We now know that senior operations officers, including counterintelligence chief James Angleton, paid far closer attention to the obscure Oswald as he made his way to Dallas than the investigators were ever told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JFK: What the CIA Hides When I launched JFK Facts, a blog about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in 2012, I was often asked by strangers, \u201cSo who killed JFK?\u201d  \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d I shrugged. \u201cIt\u2019s too early to tell.\u201d Given that the handsome liberal president had been shot dead a half-century before, my answer was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5493,2500,1372,27810],"class_list":["post-49766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-counterpunch","tag-history","tag-jfk","tag-john-fitzgerald-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49767,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49766\/revisions\/49767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}