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In reply to the discussion: JFK Conference: David Talbot named Allen Dulles as 'the Chairman of the Board of the Assassination' [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)Phillip Shenon, via David Talbot:
In the years following the Warren Reports release, several of the commissioners and staff members distanced themselves from their own report and publicly criticized the manifold deceptions of the agencies on which they had relied, namely the FBI and CIA. Among those who suffered grave doubts was lawyer David Slawson, the man who had been the Warren Commissions lead investigator into whether JFK was the victim of a conspiracy. In 1975 Slawson aired his criticisms to the New York Times, attacking the CIA for withholding vital information from the commission and calling for a new JFK investigation. Within days of the story breaking in the Times, Slawson received a strange and threatening phone call from James Angleton, the spectral CIA counterintelligence chief. Angleton who had not only closely monitored Oswald for several years before Dallas, but later took charge of the agencys investigation into the alleged assassin adopted a decidedly sinister tone during his call with Slawson, making it clear to the lawyer that he would be wise to remain a friend of the CIA. Slawson and his wife were deeply unnerved by the call. He thought the message was clear: Keep your mouth shut.
SOURCE: http://www.salon.com/2013/11/06/the_jfk_assassination_we_still_dont_know_what_happened/
PS: Thank you, dballance. Those doing wetwork at CIA answered to a "higher power."