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In reply to the discussion: JFK Conference: Mark Lane Addressed the Secret Government’s Role in the Assassination [View all]struggle4progress
(118,236 posts)Even today, people would sit up and take notice if somebody could provide a credible alternative to the WCR with good supporting evidence
But an isn't-this-odd here and an isn't-that-odd there, over and over and over again, is still just gloop -- unless a lot of such pebbles line up neatly in a nice straight line
Do I find it credible (say) that the CIA knew about LHO before the assassination?
Sure, why not? He was a Marine who defected to the USSR; and Aline Mosby's 1959 Moscow interview with him was published in US papers. After he returned to the US, it seems entirely possible the CIA tracked him on-and-off: just as the USSR seems not to have trusted Oswald, the CIA may similarly have distrusted him
Do I find it credible (say) that folk in the CIA lied about its tracking of LHO before the assassination?
Almost everybody of my generation is pretty cynical about official declarations, and I might even suspect some of those CIA creeps were congenitally incapable of telling the truth in public about almost anything. So, hell yeah, I think folk in the CIA could have lied about whatever they might have known of Oswald
You can pile up great heaps of little details like this -- but a coherent story is unlikely result from dedicated cherry-picking of sexy-sounding [\i]isn't-this-odd factoids or fictoids: nothing results but [\i]gloop
Yeah, I know the Church Committee found that the CIA had worked with organized crime to assassinate Castro or to make his beard fall out so he would lose his charisma and so on; that is interesting and worth thinking about, but without a coherent chain of documented evidence connecting that to the JFK assassination, it's just sexy [\i]gloop in any discussions of JFK's death
Personally I'd love to blame E Howard Hunt, but I really haven't seen evidence to support such conclusions: OK, perhaps Hunt late in life did name LBJ, Cord Meyer, David Atlee Philips, William Harvey, Antonio Veciana, Frank Sturgis, David Morales, and Lucien Sarti as his co-conspirators -- but it seems no evidence actually supports the claim these people were involved
It's an entirely pointless waste of time chasing sexy sexy leads in this matter. Most details that might support a credible alternative to the WCR wouldn't be sexy: they be dull nit-picky details, supported, one boring statement at a time, by real evidence