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what’s new in the JFK files?

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What’s new is evidence that James Angleton at the CIA was personally tracking Oswald, and (separately, really), extensive ties between Angleton and the nuclear proliferation project of Israeli intelligence. The historical backdrop at this time, also based on evidence, is that JFK was actively and vocally resisting said nuclear proliferation. None of which seems to be a smoking gun with fresh fingerprints, just another party with motive and opportunity.

Though Angleton insisted that the agency was inattentive to Oswald and unaware of the purpose of his activities leading up to Dallas, it has since been disclosed through unclassified JFK assassination records that Angleton personally maintained a classified 201 intelligence/surveillance file on Oswald for the four years preceding Kennedy’s assassination, strictly controlling which officials inside the CIA were permitted to see it through compartmentalization.

Angleton committed perjury before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, claiming he knew almost nothing about Lee Harvey Oswald before the shooting. In another, Angleton concealed the fact that Oswald had visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico City—a visit the CIA publicly claimed it only discovered after the assassination. As Jefferson Morley, author of The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton, explained, the  counter-intelligence chief “preferred to wait out the Warren Commission rather than explain the CIA’s knowledge of and interest in Oswald’s visit to the Cuban consulate” in Mexico…

At the very moment a U.S. president was seeking to restrict Israel’s nuclear ambitions and limit the political power of its lobby in Washington, the CIA official in control of the Oswald file was secretly sharing intelligence channels, assassination communications, and off-the-books operatives with Israel—and lying to both Congress and potentially some of his own CIA colleagues about it. The government spent 60 years redacting those facts and Americans have a right to know why.

I might ask how many agents (come on, yes, Oswald was a CIA agent/informant/collaborator of some sort) Angleton had files on. Hundreds? Thousands? or just a few? Did having a file folder with your name on it really make you special?

What’s really new with the JFK assassination?

You can read this Jacobin article on new document releases and still be confused, and this is is not an unbiased objective journalistic source. But I am just going to state what I think is by far the most likely scenario: The murder of JFK was orchestrated by anti-Castro Cuban exiles with ties to the CIA. Oswald was manipulated by those elements into either participating in the murder or just being in the right place at the right time to be framed for it. He was then assassinated in turn by an agent with clear CIA ties, because he could not be allowed to talk. He might have been a CIA asset at some point, or he might have been a Soviet asset at some point, or he might have been a double agent for either side. It doesn’t particularly matter. Civilian governments ever since have pretty much given the U.S. military industrial complex what they want in exchange for at least publicly staying out of domestic politics.

If this is the most likely scenario, the puzzle is why it is still so threatening today. Individuals involved at the time have to be close to the end of their natural lifespans at this point. Why is it so threatening to the CIA or other government organizations? They could just say yeah, bad things went down during the Cold War and we’re sorry and we are the good guys now. Even if that isn’t true and the dirty truth is that civilians are not really in charge of our government, they can still lie and use the lie to get away with the crimes of today.

But there is one more possibility – maybe the Oswald thing went down the way they say it did, in a bizarre fluke that denies logic and common sense, and that is why we will never be able to make sense of it and will keep searching forever for patterns that are not there.

January 2023 in Review

We’re now 1/12th of the way through 2023. Is this really the fabulous science fiction future we were promised? Well, at least the Earth is not a smoking ruin, at least most parts of it.

Most frightening and/or depressing story: How about a roundup of awful things, like the corrupt illegitimate U.S. Supreme Court, ongoing grisly wars, the CIA killed JFK after all (?), nuclear proliferation, ethnic cleansing, mass incarceration, Guantanamo Bay, and all talk no walk on climate change? And let’s hope there is a special circle of hell waiting for propaganda artists who worked for Exxon.

Most hopeful story: Bill Gates says a gene therapy-based cure for HIV could be 10-15 years away.

Most interesting story, that was not particularly frightening or hopeful, or perhaps was a mixture of both: Genetically engineered beating pig hearts have been sown into dead human bodies. More than once.