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In reply to the discussion: Sunday Dental Thread: Leaking Composite Restorations and the Kennedy Assassination: [View all]Celebration
(15,812 posts)67. you need to actually read the link from my post re: the palm print
And did you EVER wonder why Oswald's military records are still classified?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/biographies/oswald/oswald-the-cia-and-mexico-city/
STILL CLASSIFIED? FOR WHAT REASON?
The staff of the Mexico CIA station and others at headquarters such as Richard Helms and George Kalaris (in their various memoranda and testimonies during the years after the assassination) would have little reason to contradict the record unless the record is untrue. Lies, as Hoover observed in that scolding note regarding the CIA to his subordinates, were told in the days after the assassination. As much as to protect sources and methods, these lies appear to have been invented to buttress the lone-assassin story itself ostensibly created for the purpose of preventing war and saving millions of lives. Whether or not this also permitted conspirators to avoid the scrutiny of investigation a possibility I take seriously is something we will continue to debate.
While many of the pieces of this story became evident from the early 1993 and 1994 releases of documents to the Assassination Records Review Board, the daunting contours of the Mexico City story and the ensuing national security cover-up were not apparent until the late 1990s when the work of the Assassination Records Review Board was completed and earlier documents, which had been heavily redacted, were released in full.
Looking back over the 40 years since this case began, three things stand out. First, while cover stories may achieve their objective in the short run, they undermine public confidence when the truth comes out as it inevitably does. Second, releasing the records to the public is the first step toward restoring that confidence. FRONTLINEs documentary, my book, and this article would not have been possible without those records.
Finally, with 6 million pages added to the National Archives on this case from the Review Boards work, we need to be patient and temper our inclination to want all the answers right away. We need a small army to read, analyze, and interpret what is now rightfully ours and what remains to be discovered of the historical record. For while the 1990s release of intelligence files was enormous, there are still some records that are missing for example, Oswalds Marine Corps G-2 files and some of the FBI files in 1959-60. They remain classified and might provide useful information.The staff of the Mexico CIA station and others at headquarters such as Richard Helms and George Kalaris (in their various memoranda and testimonies during the years after the assassination) would have little reason to contradict the record unless the record is untrue. Lies, as Hoover observed in that scolding note regarding the CIA to his subordinates, were told in the days after the assassination. As much as to protect sources and methods, these lies appear to have been invented to buttress the lone-assassin story itself ostensibly created for the purpose of preventing war and saving millions of lives. Whether or not this also permitted conspirators to avoid the scrutiny of investigation a possibility I take seriously is something we will continue to debate.
While many of the pieces of this story became evident from the early 1993 and 1994 releases of documents to the Assassination Records Review Board, the daunting contours of the Mexico City story and the ensuing national security cover-up were not apparent until the late 1990s when the work of the Assassination Records Review Board was completed and earlier documents, which had been heavily redacted, were released in full.
Looking back over the 40 years since this case began, three things stand out. First, while cover stories may achieve their objective in the short run, they undermine public confidence when the truth comes out as it inevitably does. Second, releasing the records to the public is the first step toward restoring that confidence. FRONTLINEs documentary, my book, and this article would not have been possible without those records.
Finally, with 6 million pages added to the National Archives on this case from the Review Boards work, we need to be patient and temper our inclination to want all the answers right away. We need a small army to read, analyze, and interpret what is now rightfully ours and what remains to be discovered of the historical record. For while the 1990s release of intelligence files was enormous, there are still some records that are missing for example, Oswalds Marine Corps G-2 files and some of the FBI files in 1959-60. They remain classified and might provide useful information.
While many of the pieces of this story became evident from the early 1993 and 1994 releases of documents to the Assassination Records Review Board, the daunting contours of the Mexico City story and the ensuing national security cover-up were not apparent until the late 1990s when the work of the Assassination Records Review Board was completed and earlier documents, which had been heavily redacted, were released in full.
Looking back over the 40 years since this case began, three things stand out. First, while cover stories may achieve their objective in the short run, they undermine public confidence when the truth comes out as it inevitably does. Second, releasing the records to the public is the first step toward restoring that confidence. FRONTLINEs documentary, my book, and this article would not have been possible without those records.
Finally, with 6 million pages added to the National Archives on this case from the Review Boards work, we need to be patient and temper our inclination to want all the answers right away. We need a small army to read, analyze, and interpret what is now rightfully ours and what remains to be discovered of the historical record. For while the 1990s release of intelligence files was enormous, there are still some records that are missing for example, Oswalds Marine Corps G-2 files and some of the FBI files in 1959-60. They remain classified and might provide useful information.The staff of the Mexico CIA station and others at headquarters such as Richard Helms and George Kalaris (in their various memoranda and testimonies during the years after the assassination) would have little reason to contradict the record unless the record is untrue. Lies, as Hoover observed in that scolding note regarding the CIA to his subordinates, were told in the days after the assassination. As much as to protect sources and methods, these lies appear to have been invented to buttress the lone-assassin story itself ostensibly created for the purpose of preventing war and saving millions of lives. Whether or not this also permitted conspirators to avoid the scrutiny of investigation a possibility I take seriously is something we will continue to debate.
While many of the pieces of this story became evident from the early 1993 and 1994 releases of documents to the Assassination Records Review Board, the daunting contours of the Mexico City story and the ensuing national security cover-up were not apparent until the late 1990s when the work of the Assassination Records Review Board was completed and earlier documents, which had been heavily redacted, were released in full.
Looking back over the 40 years since this case began, three things stand out. First, while cover stories may achieve their objective in the short run, they undermine public confidence when the truth comes out as it inevitably does. Second, releasing the records to the public is the first step toward restoring that confidence. FRONTLINEs documentary, my book, and this article would not have been possible without those records.
Finally, with 6 million pages added to the National Archives on this case from the Review Boards work, we need to be patient and temper our inclination to want all the answers right away. We need a small army to read, analyze, and interpret what is now rightfully ours and what remains to be discovered of the historical record. For while the 1990s release of intelligence files was enormous, there are still some records that are missing for example, Oswalds Marine Corps G-2 files and some of the FBI files in 1959-60. They remain classified and might provide useful information.
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Sunday Dental Thread: Leaking Composite Restorations and the Kennedy Assassination: [View all]
PCIntern
Dec 2013
OP
You're exactly right about the flinging and slinging of preposterous theories.
Zen Democrat
Dec 2013
#2
It's like some people have an irony gland secreting neurochemicals that compel them. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#9
And I thought there was no conspiracy until I began to read about it myself a few years ago.
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#17
Yet another CTer speaking in abstract terms about "counter evidence" that's out there somewhere...
DanTex
Dec 2013
#51
I don't care what you 'find hard to believe'. Show me comments from me on this issue
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#62
I think that if you had actually read about it, you would have some actual evidence.
DanTex
Dec 2013
#64
I never said there was evidence of a second gunman. I have repeatedly stated that who actually
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#71
Last post, you said "the most flawed 'finding' of the WC was that Oswald was a 'lone gunman'."
DanTex
Dec 2013
#72
First of all, there was a palm print, and second of all, lack of fingerprints is
DanTex
Dec 2013
#58
Another dental story with a broader moral about institutional failure, here.
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2013
#50
Actually, I find Orrex's reply in this thread to be much funnier than my reply.
The Midway Rebel
Dec 2013
#63
Agree 'in theory' that the American people are being bombarded with bullshit; but you omitted this:
freshwest
Dec 2013
#73