JFK Conference: Bill Kelly introduced new evidence - adding Air Force One tape recordings

[Bolo Boffin]

101. Yes, to introduce some much needed levity to this discussion. Nevertheless

you have finally answer my actual question: no, it wasn't known that the CIA was trying to kill Castro. And it would be a very natural assumption that Castro had been successful in retaliating for the several attempts on his life. That was what many in the government feared had happened. And that revelation in the immediate aftermath of the assassination would have been catastrophic for the government.

What we have evidence for, then, is the paramount importance that investigators not find evidence that Castro was responsible, whether that evidence was there to find or not. If Castro had done this and it had been revealed, it would have meant war. If Mongoose had been revealed, it would have meant the loss of international support and the open ire of the American public. They could have lost Berlin over this, an unacceptable loss.

And before that happened, the nukes would have started flying. You have said repeatedly that the perps did this to justify a nuclear first strike. But given the perfect causus belli to start one, finding out Castro had done this, the American government made every attempt to avoid seeing that - in short, to avoid nuclear war. Not to mention, the destruction of the Democratic Party in national politics, if these attempts to overthrow Castro by any means necessary had been linked up with the Diem coup. Mongoose had to remain hidden. And so it was until the next decade.

But Castro had not done it. The government pulled a reverse LAPD. They didn't have to frame OJ because the evidence would be sufficient to convict him as is - but Mark Fuhrman had already thrown that bloody glove. Just so, there was no evidence Castro had assassinated Kennedy because he hadn't. But they internally didn't go looking for what they thought they might find.

That was the government coverup. The only person responsible for the death of President Kennedy was Lee Oswald. But because of the very first JFK conspiracy theorists, the Johnson administration, 50 years later we are still arguing about it.