Post by Rob Caprio on Aug 23, 2021 20:21:39 GMT -5
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The Church Committee (CC) looked into the relationship between the Warren Commission (WC) and the CIA in a number of ways. This post will look at how the CIA handled the aspect of Lee Harvey Oswald's (LHO) involvement with both pro-Castro and anti-Castro groups during the critical year of 1963.
The CIA spent a good amount of time focusing on LHO's time in the Soviet Union and his relationship with Russian things, but no time on the Castro groups. Why? Here is what the CC wrote about this issue.
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When the Warren Commission began to request information from [the] CIA, {James Jesus] Angleton directed one of his subordinates to become the "point of record" for coordinating research undertaken for the Commission. The CIA analyst said that it was his responsibility to know what materials the CIA had on the assassination and to know what research was being conducted.
The analyst chose three others from the Counterintelligence Staff to work with him. They were experts in the KGB and Soviet matters, and and were not affiliated with the CIA Cuban affairs staff. ...Files on this phase of the CIA investigation reflect the Soviet orientation of the investigation. The CIA staff exhaustively analyzed the significance of Oswald's activities in the Soviet Union, but there is no corresponding CIA analysis of the significance of Oswald's contacts with pro-Castro and anti-Castro groups in the United States.
During the Warren Commission's investigation, the Commission worked directly with designated CIA officials. The Commission staff was given access to CIA files on the assassination, including material obtained from sensitive sources and methods.
However, The Warren Commission staff did not work directly with anyone from SAS. Although the CIA centered its work on the assasination in its Counterintelligence Division, the Chief of SAS Counterintelligence testified that the SAS had no "direct" role in the investigation of the assassination. (Church Committee, Vol. V., pp. 57-58)
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This is astounding considering the fact that LHO was much more involved in Cuban matters in the months leading up to the assassination than he was Soviet matters. Why did the CIA ignore the Cuban issue so completely? Was it because they were assigning LHO these tasks in the Cuban area? Were they telling him to infiltrate anti-Castro groups and also pass out pro-Castro leaflets during the summer of 1963 in New Orleans? What other explanation could there be for this total oversight in this area? LHO's time in the Soviet Union had ended awhile before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK), so why were they focused on this area instead?
Could it be that it was safer from their perspective? If it was made clear that LHO was being directed in the Cuban area by the CIA, what would this have caused people to ask? The most likely question would be -- if they were directing him in the area of the Cuban groups, what other areas were they directing him? His alleged defection to the Soviet Union? His supposed Fair Play For Cuba Committee (FPCC) chapter in New Orleans? His alleged role in JFK's assassination?
The questions are nearly endless. The Cuban issue was very important, but we see that the WC were never briefed about it or LHO's possible roles in this area. They were also never told about the assassination attempts the CIA helped to plan on Cuban Premier Fidel Castro either. Why not? This was very important information the WC never received.
If LHO was the sole assassin as claimed, why was this type of action needed? This is just one of many reasons why most Americans still don't accept the official conclusion of JFK's assassination nearly fifty-eight-years later.
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The Church Committee (CC) looked into the relationship between the Warren Commission (WC) and the CIA in a number of ways. This post will look at how the CIA handled the aspect of Lee Harvey Oswald's (LHO) involvement with both pro-Castro and anti-Castro groups during the critical year of 1963.
The CIA spent a good amount of time focusing on LHO's time in the Soviet Union and his relationship with Russian things, but no time on the Castro groups. Why? Here is what the CC wrote about this issue.
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When the Warren Commission began to request information from [the] CIA, {James Jesus] Angleton directed one of his subordinates to become the "point of record" for coordinating research undertaken for the Commission. The CIA analyst said that it was his responsibility to know what materials the CIA had on the assassination and to know what research was being conducted.
The analyst chose three others from the Counterintelligence Staff to work with him. They were experts in the KGB and Soviet matters, and and were not affiliated with the CIA Cuban affairs staff. ...Files on this phase of the CIA investigation reflect the Soviet orientation of the investigation. The CIA staff exhaustively analyzed the significance of Oswald's activities in the Soviet Union, but there is no corresponding CIA analysis of the significance of Oswald's contacts with pro-Castro and anti-Castro groups in the United States.
During the Warren Commission's investigation, the Commission worked directly with designated CIA officials. The Commission staff was given access to CIA files on the assassination, including material obtained from sensitive sources and methods.
However, The Warren Commission staff did not work directly with anyone from SAS. Although the CIA centered its work on the assasination in its Counterintelligence Division, the Chief of SAS Counterintelligence testified that the SAS had no "direct" role in the investigation of the assassination. (Church Committee, Vol. V., pp. 57-58)
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1161#relPageId=64
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This is astounding considering the fact that LHO was much more involved in Cuban matters in the months leading up to the assassination than he was Soviet matters. Why did the CIA ignore the Cuban issue so completely? Was it because they were assigning LHO these tasks in the Cuban area? Were they telling him to infiltrate anti-Castro groups and also pass out pro-Castro leaflets during the summer of 1963 in New Orleans? What other explanation could there be for this total oversight in this area? LHO's time in the Soviet Union had ended awhile before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK), so why were they focused on this area instead?
Could it be that it was safer from their perspective? If it was made clear that LHO was being directed in the Cuban area by the CIA, what would this have caused people to ask? The most likely question would be -- if they were directing him in the area of the Cuban groups, what other areas were they directing him? His alleged defection to the Soviet Union? His supposed Fair Play For Cuba Committee (FPCC) chapter in New Orleans? His alleged role in JFK's assassination?
The questions are nearly endless. The Cuban issue was very important, but we see that the WC were never briefed about it or LHO's possible roles in this area. They were also never told about the assassination attempts the CIA helped to plan on Cuban Premier Fidel Castro either. Why not? This was very important information the WC never received.
If LHO was the sole assassin as claimed, why was this type of action needed? This is just one of many reasons why most Americans still don't accept the official conclusion of JFK's assassination nearly fifty-eight-years later.