Post by John Duncan on Apr 30, 2021 19:24:09 GMT -5
CIA vs.FBI
By Salvador Astucia 12/03
People who believe in conspiracy tend to blame everything on the CIA. While there is no question that Kennedy's death was the result of a governmental conspiracy, I have found little evidence that the CIA had much involvement; however, there is a great deal of evidence pointing to the FBI. First of all, my research indicates that French Corsican assassins were used (see article below). Second, the FBI has Corsican roots. The Bureau was created by a member of a prominent Corsican family. It was established in 1908 by Charles Joseph Bonaparte, the great nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican. This suggests that the FBI alone may have hired the assassins, or instructed someone else--like Meyer Lansky, for example--to act as Hoover's emissary and recruit the French Corsican hit men. Third, people look at Allen Dulles as a key player in the assassination because he was a former CIA director--fired, or forced out by Kennedy--appointed by LBJ as a ranking member of the Warren Commission. People don't realize that the FBI had a ranking member protecting it as well. According to former FBI official William Sullivan (deceased) Gerald Ford was the Bureau's point man on the Warren Commission.
And history reveals that Ford was rewarded, he was given the presidency after Nixon was forced out. Dulles never received any comparable reward for protecting the CIA. The only hint of real CIA involvement was that Dallas Mayor Earle Cabelle was brother to General Charles Cabelle, formerly the No Two man at the CIA, fired by Kennedy after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. General Cabelle was probably involved in the conspiracy, but more as a personal vendetta against Kennedy, not as a CIA backed coup.
Fourth, I have found no evidence that the CIA has much control over the American news media, but the FBI, however, has tremendous influence in that regard. They have 59 field offices, hundreds of satellite offices, 11,000 agents, and carte blanche legal authority to use informants as they see fit. William Sullivan claimed that the FBI's primary function was propaganda at its agents kept close tabs on newspapers and journals throughout the United States. In order to cover up a crime like the murder of a sitting US president, the group sponsoring or carrying out the crime must have the ability to control the news media. I have found no evidence that the CIA has such power, only the FBI. It would appear that Hoover's FBI used two patsies to take the fall for Kennedy's murder. Lee Harvey Oswald was the first tier patsy, and the CIA was used as the patsy for Tier 2, the conspiracy fallback position.
Salvador
==========================Subject: The French Corsican assassins
From: salvado...@cs.com (Salvadorwriter)
Date: 11/29/03 8:21 PM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: <20031129202159...@mb-m22.news.cs.com>
Chiappe and Angeletti took their positions in two office buildings; one was high, one was low. Sarti stood behind a picket fence on top of a hill near the middle of Elm Street, his rifle loaded with exploding bullets. He was disguised as a policeman. As the limousine approached the center of Elm Street one shot was fired from a lower-level window of the Dal-Tex building directly behind the car; a bullet struck Kennedy in the back of the neck. (1)
One second later (7) Sarti fired from behind the picket fence hitting Kennedy in the right temple slamming his body backward and to the left, then slumping sideways in the seat. The bone in his right temple fell beside his ear as the back of his head exploded. (8) He was declared legally dead shortly thereafter.
A fourth shot was fired that missed the car completely, but grazed onlooker James Teague in the cheek; (9) it was fired simultaneously with one of the other shots. (10)
SOURCES/NOTES
(A) Christian David told Steve Rivele, in The Men Who Killed Kennedy, that Lucien Sarti was the man who shot Kennedy in the head. David said there were two other assassins, but he would not reveal their names because both men were still alive, whereas, Sarti had been killed in 1972. Astucia discovered the names of the other two assassins in the book, Contrabandistas (1973) by Evert Clark and Nicholas Horrock. Lucien Sarti, François Chiappe, and Jean-Paul Angeletti were the bodyguards of Auguste Ricord, the heroin trafficker. Christian David also worked for Ricord, along with Michel Nicoli, the man who confirmed Christian David's story to Steve Rivele in The Men Who Killed Kennedy.
(1) Christian David's description per Steve Rivele, The Men Who Killed Kennedy.
(2) Zapruder film.
(3) ibid.
(5) The fact that Connally’s torso was turned to the right was determined by viewing the Zapruder film. It also matches his description of the shots (The Men Who Killed Kennedy). His sitting position is critical because it establishes the direction from which the bullet was fired. Some researchers get confused on this point. (example, J. Marrs, Crossfire, p. 308-d: sketch shows Connally seated in wrong position.)
(6) Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, pp. 281-282
(8) Zapruder film.
(9) Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, p. 281.
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Salvador Astucia, author of the following books:
- "Rethinking John Lennon's Assassination: The FBI's War on Rock Stars"; and
- "Opium Lords: Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination"