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Several things occurred in 1975 that affected public opinion about what happened on November 22, 1963. Firstly, there was the limited hangout Rockefeller Commission named for the Vice-President of the country, Nelson Rockefeller, which brought to light some of the activities of our intelligence agencies. This led to outrage among the American people, so a second group was set up, the Church Committee, to look further into these issues and they added one regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK).
They wanted to know how the intelligence agencies performed in the handling of this tragic event (Why I don't know as it was pretty obvious, they handled it horribly, but America was much naiver back then.) during their "investigation" of what occurred in Dallas, Texas. They left their curiosity to just the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and avoided the Secret Service (SS), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) for some reason.
They devoted a section in their report to the Domestic Intelligence Division (DID) of the FBI and its head William Sullivan. Here is what they wrote about this group and Sullivan.
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In November 1963, the head of the Domestic Intelligence Division, which was responsible for the "subversive aspects of the assassination case" Sullivan told the Committee staff that he had never been informed of any assassination plots after 1962, including the AMLASH operation. Although he had been apprised of earlier Agency efforts to use underworld figures to assassinate Castro, by a memorandum detailing Director Hoover's May 10, 1962 conversation with Attorney General Kennedy, Sullivan's impression was that these plans had only been in the "discussion stage." (Church Committee Book V, p. 36)
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1161#relPageId=42
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What was considered to be a "subversive aspect" of the JFK assassination? Was it the anti-Castro Cuban groups? Was it right-wing extremist groups? Was it parts of the government that had gone rogue? Who knows since they did not quantify what this phrase meant.
One has to wonder how clued in Sullivan was if he did NOT know that there were attempts to kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro after 1962! These attempts were still going on when JFK was assassinated, but suddenly slowed down once that occurred. Why? Did Castro know what happened on November 22, 1963? He did conduct his own investigation on it. Was this why the attention suddenly slowed down and then stopped?
We know that the CIA was conducting all kinds of attempts against Castro without informing JFK or Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) so they could have thought it was only in the "discussion stage" while actual plans were in play.
The report continues with this comment.
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...According to Sullivan, the Bureau made an "all-out effort" to investigate "possible foreign conspiracy" in the President's assassination. Sullivan could not recall specific measures the Bureau had taken and stated that he believed there were certain "gaps" in the FBI investigation. (Ibid.)
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So, the FBI made an "all-out effort" to investigate the JFK assassination in terms of foreign conspiracies possibly being involved and still wrapped up their report by December 9, 1963! This means in seventeen days they conducted worldwide investigations looking into various possible conspiracies and "subversive" actions by foreign entities as well as investigated the activities of Dallas in a little over two weeks. The Dallas Police Department (DPD), who made an arrest for two murders miles apart in less than an hour-and-a-half with no evidence tying to the person they arrested, had NOTHING on the FBI!
It is a shame that the FBI doesn't have this success rate in all cases as a high percentage of cases they handle are never solved. Ditto local police departments. Only in the major cases (JFK, RFK, MLK) do we see superhuman results in a short period of time.
I am wondering also, how does "an all-out effort" balance with "gaps" being in the investigation? Isn't this a direct opposite type of thing? If one goes all-out there should be NO gaps. At least that is what is normal for most of us, but not the FBI I guess. It is also interesting that Sullivan could not even recall what specific measures they took, but he knew it was "all-out" nonetheless. Amazing.
One of his own supervisors showed that what he said was not accurate.
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Within the Domestic Intelligence Division, the assassination investigation was supervised by a squad of several Headquarters agents in the Soviet Section. One of the Soviet Section supervisors who conducted the investigation described it as follows:
...our investigation was primarily concentrated on Lee Harvey Oswald, was he the assassin, and to get the complete background investigation of him... it was an investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man.
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Question: But it didn't include Cuba?
Supervisor: Well, it included Oswald's contacts within the Cuban area. (Ibid.)
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The truth was that 99% of the "all-out effort" was focused on Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) and LHO alone! Just to make it look good they threw in 1% effort on his contacts in the "Cuban area" that they then totally ignored! One percent might be generous as well since I wrote this in an earlier article in this series.
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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 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 assassination 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 in 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 a while before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK), so why were they focused on this area instead?
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/1231/church-committee-nuggets-cuban-issue
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This shows us that the CIA, who had primary responsibility for this area, spent no time on LHO and Cuban activities, therefore, why would the FBI spend any time on this issue?
So, the supervisor was a liar as well. Will anyone tell us exactly what happened? Probably not. The nameless supervisor told us that zero time was spent on whether Castro was responsible for the assassination of JFK too.
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...Although in late 1963 he had been assigned the "responsibility of going through every file in the FBI to see whether any lead had been overlooked in the case" [and] to his knowledge the Bureau never conducted an investigation to determine whether the Cuban government was responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy.' (Ibid., pp. 36-37)
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1161#relPageId=43
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So the supervisor said NO investigation looking into whether Castro was involved had ever been conducted as far as he knew. So much for the "all-out effort", huh? This also shows how ridiculous the claims by Johnny Roselli, and publicized by Jack Anderson, were as there is no evidence that Castro killed JFK as payback for trying to kill him.
In fact, at the time of the assassination Castro was meeting with a reporter who was working as a go-between for Castro and JFK in their efforts to work out a diplomatic solution. Furthermore, Castro immediately began having the assassination investigated and this would be ridiculous IF he was the one responsible.
The above supervisor tried to shift the burden to another group -- the Nationalities Intelligence Section (NIS) -- since they were most familiar with Cuban matters. This came crashing down when the head of the NID testified to the CC that he wasn't privy to any of the discussions regarding the JFK assassination because this wasn't handled in his group, but rather the responsibility laid with the Soviet Section. (Ibid., p. 37)
The leading Cuban expert in the NIS area testified to the CC that he had no idea that there were assassination attempts against Castro and that he had no recollection of any bureau investigation into the issue of Cuban involvement in the assassination. He wasn't told about Castro's threat of retaliation either. (Ibid.)
The top expert in NIS regarding the anti-Castro exile groups also testified to having no knowledge of any investigation looking into whether any of these groups had been involved or not. He told the CC that he was "not part of the assassination team" so he had no knowledge of this supposed investigation. (Ibid.) It is common knowledge to researchers that members of some of the exile groups had to be involved in some capacity, but the FBI did not see fit to have this possibility investigated in 1963/1964. The only possible reason is they were assisting in covering up the truth. NO other explanation makes any sense.
This one area shows some very powerful things. It seems that the FBI did NOT investigate anything outside of LHO during their "all-out effort" to find the truth that left many "gaps" in their findings. This should show anyone that the Warren Commission's (WC) conclusion cannot be accepted as the truth since so many things were NEVER looked into at all.
It should have taken a lot longer to investigate foreign, and domestic, conspiracies than it did. Again, the FBI released their first report on December 9, 1963! It was as if it had been written before the assassination.
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Several things occurred in 1975 that affected public opinion about what happened on November 22, 1963. Firstly, there was the limited hangout Rockefeller Commission named for the Vice-President of the country, Nelson Rockefeller, which brought to light some of the activities of our intelligence agencies. This led to outrage among the American people, so a second group was set up, the Church Committee, to look further into these issues and they added one regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK).
They wanted to know how the intelligence agencies performed in the handling of this tragic event (Why I don't know as it was pretty obvious, they handled it horribly, but America was much naiver back then.) during their "investigation" of what occurred in Dallas, Texas. They left their curiosity to just the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and avoided the Secret Service (SS), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) for some reason.
They devoted a section in their report to the Domestic Intelligence Division (DID) of the FBI and its head William Sullivan. Here is what they wrote about this group and Sullivan.
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In November 1963, the head of the Domestic Intelligence Division, which was responsible for the "subversive aspects of the assassination case" Sullivan told the Committee staff that he had never been informed of any assassination plots after 1962, including the AMLASH operation. Although he had been apprised of earlier Agency efforts to use underworld figures to assassinate Castro, by a memorandum detailing Director Hoover's May 10, 1962 conversation with Attorney General Kennedy, Sullivan's impression was that these plans had only been in the "discussion stage." (Church Committee Book V, p. 36)
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1161#relPageId=42
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What was considered to be a "subversive aspect" of the JFK assassination? Was it the anti-Castro Cuban groups? Was it right-wing extremist groups? Was it parts of the government that had gone rogue? Who knows since they did not quantify what this phrase meant.
One has to wonder how clued in Sullivan was if he did NOT know that there were attempts to kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro after 1962! These attempts were still going on when JFK was assassinated, but suddenly slowed down once that occurred. Why? Did Castro know what happened on November 22, 1963? He did conduct his own investigation on it. Was this why the attention suddenly slowed down and then stopped?
We know that the CIA was conducting all kinds of attempts against Castro without informing JFK or Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) so they could have thought it was only in the "discussion stage" while actual plans were in play.
The report continues with this comment.
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...According to Sullivan, the Bureau made an "all-out effort" to investigate "possible foreign conspiracy" in the President's assassination. Sullivan could not recall specific measures the Bureau had taken and stated that he believed there were certain "gaps" in the FBI investigation. (Ibid.)
Quote off
So, the FBI made an "all-out effort" to investigate the JFK assassination in terms of foreign conspiracies possibly being involved and still wrapped up their report by December 9, 1963! This means in seventeen days they conducted worldwide investigations looking into various possible conspiracies and "subversive" actions by foreign entities as well as investigated the activities of Dallas in a little over two weeks. The Dallas Police Department (DPD), who made an arrest for two murders miles apart in less than an hour-and-a-half with no evidence tying to the person they arrested, had NOTHING on the FBI!
It is a shame that the FBI doesn't have this success rate in all cases as a high percentage of cases they handle are never solved. Ditto local police departments. Only in the major cases (JFK, RFK, MLK) do we see superhuman results in a short period of time.
I am wondering also, how does "an all-out effort" balance with "gaps" being in the investigation? Isn't this a direct opposite type of thing? If one goes all-out there should be NO gaps. At least that is what is normal for most of us, but not the FBI I guess. It is also interesting that Sullivan could not even recall what specific measures they took, but he knew it was "all-out" nonetheless. Amazing.
One of his own supervisors showed that what he said was not accurate.
Quote on
Within the Domestic Intelligence Division, the assassination investigation was supervised by a squad of several Headquarters agents in the Soviet Section. One of the Soviet Section supervisors who conducted the investigation described it as follows:
...our investigation was primarily concentrated on Lee Harvey Oswald, was he the assassin, and to get the complete background investigation of him... it was an investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man.
*********************
Question: But it didn't include Cuba?
Supervisor: Well, it included Oswald's contacts within the Cuban area. (Ibid.)
Quote off
The truth was that 99% of the "all-out effort" was focused on Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) and LHO alone! Just to make it look good they threw in 1% effort on his contacts in the "Cuban area" that they then totally ignored! One percent might be generous as well since I wrote this in an earlier article in this series.
Quote on
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.
Quote on
historymatters.com/archive/church/reports/book5/pages/ChurchVol5_0032a.gif
historymatters.com/archive/church/reports/book5/pages/ChurchVol5_0032b.gif
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 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 assassination 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 in 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 a while before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK), so why were they focused on this area instead?
jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/thread/1231/church-committee-nuggets-cuban-issue
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This shows us that the CIA, who had primary responsibility for this area, spent no time on LHO and Cuban activities, therefore, why would the FBI spend any time on this issue?
So, the supervisor was a liar as well. Will anyone tell us exactly what happened? Probably not. The nameless supervisor told us that zero time was spent on whether Castro was responsible for the assassination of JFK too.
Quote on
...Although in late 1963 he had been assigned the "responsibility of going through every file in the FBI to see whether any lead had been overlooked in the case" [and] to his knowledge the Bureau never conducted an investigation to determine whether the Cuban government was responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy.' (Ibid., pp. 36-37)
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1161#relPageId=43
Quote off
So the supervisor said NO investigation looking into whether Castro was involved had ever been conducted as far as he knew. So much for the "all-out effort", huh? This also shows how ridiculous the claims by Johnny Roselli, and publicized by Jack Anderson, were as there is no evidence that Castro killed JFK as payback for trying to kill him.
In fact, at the time of the assassination Castro was meeting with a reporter who was working as a go-between for Castro and JFK in their efforts to work out a diplomatic solution. Furthermore, Castro immediately began having the assassination investigated and this would be ridiculous IF he was the one responsible.
The above supervisor tried to shift the burden to another group -- the Nationalities Intelligence Section (NIS) -- since they were most familiar with Cuban matters. This came crashing down when the head of the NID testified to the CC that he wasn't privy to any of the discussions regarding the JFK assassination because this wasn't handled in his group, but rather the responsibility laid with the Soviet Section. (Ibid., p. 37)
The leading Cuban expert in the NIS area testified to the CC that he had no idea that there were assassination attempts against Castro and that he had no recollection of any bureau investigation into the issue of Cuban involvement in the assassination. He wasn't told about Castro's threat of retaliation either. (Ibid.)
The top expert in NIS regarding the anti-Castro exile groups also testified to having no knowledge of any investigation looking into whether any of these groups had been involved or not. He told the CC that he was "not part of the assassination team" so he had no knowledge of this supposed investigation. (Ibid.) It is common knowledge to researchers that members of some of the exile groups had to be involved in some capacity, but the FBI did not see fit to have this possibility investigated in 1963/1964. The only possible reason is they were assisting in covering up the truth. NO other explanation makes any sense.
This one area shows some very powerful things. It seems that the FBI did NOT investigate anything outside of LHO during their "all-out effort" to find the truth that left many "gaps" in their findings. This should show anyone that the Warren Commission's (WC) conclusion cannot be accepted as the truth since so many things were NEVER looked into at all.
It should have taken a lot longer to investigate foreign, and domestic, conspiracies than it did. Again, the FBI released their first report on December 9, 1963! It was as if it had been written before the assassination.