General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: GHW Bush, JFK's assassination, the CIA and drugs [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)byways of the 'conspiracy'\critical school (vs. the Warren Commission\official school).
My first question is this: do you know whether Bugliosi ever responded to this review substantively?
My second question\observation is this: few dispute that the CIA was guilty of monstrous crimes during the 1947-75 time frame (and probably even thereafter). What many, including Bugliosi and me, dispute is whether the CIA was part of any conspiracy to assassinate JFK. IOW, the CIA can be black as sin overall but still be as pure as the driven snow in regards to JFK's assassination. To his credit, Bugliosi does not attempt to sugar-coat or whitewash the CIA's role in such nefarious shit as the Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose, etc. As far as I can tell, Bugliosi holds no warrant for the spooks at the CIA. His interest in this book, though, is ascertaining what role if any the CIA had in JFK's death. He concludes it had no role, other than that its efforts against Castro's Cuba may have provided Oswald with part of his motive for striking out at JFK. That's responsibility at least twice-removed, I would say.