JFK Conference: David Talbot named Allen Dulles as 'the Chairman of the Board of the Assassination'

[Mc Mike]

122. Thanks for the link to the hard copy of the memo, Ava is.

For me, seeing a photo stat of the actual memo is better than seeing electronically typed excerpts. I think it's right that the memo is the blueprint, or the edict about what the findings would cover up.

After I posted the excerpt, I saw that Octa had posted it already in post # 41, down thread. That's the only downside of an o.p. attracting so much attention and info, it's tougher to resist the urge to post a reply to a statement in a subthread before I read through completely, and I wound up jumping the gun with a post that duplicates something already posted.

There's a political slant to the second paragraph of Ketzenbach's memo, the idea that only the Iron Curtain press was suspicious that it was a right-wing conspiracy. In fact, immediately after the assassination, a lot of citizens here and allies internationally pointed fingers at the far right and far right big money interests. JFK gets killed in an area that was teeming with violent right wingers, the buckle on the far right fundy christian bible belt, with birchers, Minutemen, concerned white citizens councils, klan, repug party officials, white russians and batista cubans, far right military and military industrial and intel and oil and financial interests, who had positions of power and influence throughout the city and had already loudly repeatedly denounced Kennedy as a 'treasonous commie appeaser'. After the assassination of someone they hated, on their turf, they said 'how dare you blame us', 'Castro reached right into our stronghold where we control everything, and killed that guy we said we hated'. 'So, now we should get to do what we wanted and invade Cuba, which is something that commie Kennedy wouldn't let us do.' Transparent double think, despite 50 years of smoke being blown.

The thinking behind Katzenbach's memo would have it that the source of any speculation, that those violent rightists -- with all those guns and all that control over the area -- could be reasonably considered suspects, well obviously the source of that speculation comes from our adversaries on the far left. Anyone who voices that speculation is a mouthpiece for the commies, or is a useful idiot for them.

Here's an excerpt from the HSCA, p. 258, describing the 'failure' of the Warren Commission:

http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/report/html/HSCA_Report_0144b.htm

'on the subject that should have received the Warren Commission's most probing analysis -- whether Oswald acted in concert with or on behalf of unidentified co-conspirators -- the Commission's performance was in fact flawed. One of the primary causes was the absence of full and proper co-operation of the FBI and CIA, and the desire of national leaders to allay public fears of a conspiracy.'

So the Commission didn't discover a conspiracy, because they 'wanted to allay public fears of a conspiracy.' ! Good excuse, and an excellent display of sound legal and judicial reasoning.