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In reply to the discussion: The CIA obtained a confidential email to Congress [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)50. Yeh. One thing: Dulles didn't ask, he FORGED a retraction for Truman.
Trumans True Warning on the CIA
Exclusive: National security secrecy and a benighted sense of whats good for the country can be a dangerous mix for democracy, empowering self-interested or misguided officials to supplant the peoples will, as President Truman warned and ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains.
By Ray McGovern
ConsortiumNews, December 22, 2013
EXCERPT...
Dulles and Dallas
Dulles could hardly have expected to get Truman to recant publicly. So why was it so important for Dulles to place in CIA files a fabricated retraction? I believe the answer lies in the fact that in early 1964 Dulles was feeling a lot of heat from many who were suggesting the CIA might have been involved somehow in the Kennedy assassination. Columnists were asking how the truth could ever be reached, with Allen Dulles as de facto head of the Warren Commission.
Dulles had good reason to fear that Trumans limited-edition Washington Post op-ed of Dec. 22, 1963, might garner unwanted attention and raise troublesome questions about covert action, including assassination. He would have wanted to be in position to dig out of Larry Houstons files the Truman retraction, in the hope that this would nip any serious questioning in the bud.
As the de facto head of the Warren Commission, Dulles was perfectly positioned to protect himself and his associates, were any commissioners or investigators or journalists tempted to question whether Dulles and the CIA played a role in killing Kennedy.
And so, the question: Did Allen Dulles and other cloak-and-dagger CIA operatives have a hand in John Kennedys assassination and in then covering it up? In my view, the best dissection of the evidence pertaining to the murder appeared in James Douglasss 2008 book, JFK and the Unspeakable. After updating and arraying the abundant evidence, and conducting still more interviews, Douglass concludes that the answer is Yes.
CONTINUED...
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/12/22/trumans-true-warning-on-the-cia/
As Nixon said, "Beg your pardon."
Exclusive: National security secrecy and a benighted sense of whats good for the country can be a dangerous mix for democracy, empowering self-interested or misguided officials to supplant the peoples will, as President Truman warned and ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains.
By Ray McGovern
ConsortiumNews, December 22, 2013
EXCERPT...
Dulles and Dallas
Dulles could hardly have expected to get Truman to recant publicly. So why was it so important for Dulles to place in CIA files a fabricated retraction? I believe the answer lies in the fact that in early 1964 Dulles was feeling a lot of heat from many who were suggesting the CIA might have been involved somehow in the Kennedy assassination. Columnists were asking how the truth could ever be reached, with Allen Dulles as de facto head of the Warren Commission.
Dulles had good reason to fear that Trumans limited-edition Washington Post op-ed of Dec. 22, 1963, might garner unwanted attention and raise troublesome questions about covert action, including assassination. He would have wanted to be in position to dig out of Larry Houstons files the Truman retraction, in the hope that this would nip any serious questioning in the bud.
As the de facto head of the Warren Commission, Dulles was perfectly positioned to protect himself and his associates, were any commissioners or investigators or journalists tempted to question whether Dulles and the CIA played a role in killing Kennedy.
And so, the question: Did Allen Dulles and other cloak-and-dagger CIA operatives have a hand in John Kennedys assassination and in then covering it up? In my view, the best dissection of the evidence pertaining to the murder appeared in James Douglasss 2008 book, JFK and the Unspeakable. After updating and arraying the abundant evidence, and conducting still more interviews, Douglass concludes that the answer is Yes.
CONTINUED...
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/12/22/trumans-true-warning-on-the-cia/
As Nixon said, "Beg your pardon."
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SharonAnn
Jul 2014
#32
Absolutely, no Whistle Blower can trust Congress anymore. Snowden probably knew this
sabrina 1
Jul 2014
#28
And the NSA keeps a record of all that's transpired. Such messes they create when they
glowing
Jul 2014
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Truman criticized CIA after the assassination of President Kennedy and Dulles asked for retraction.
Octafish
Jul 2014
#16
Thanks, MinM! Most people have no idea about McCloy's ties to Big Oil and the NAZIs.
Octafish
Jul 2014
#60
Is this another whistleblower leaking this story? How is this story getting out to the MSM?
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Jul 2014
#17
Except those who step into the light publicly like Snowden, Binney, Drake, Ellsburg etc
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Jul 2014
#21
Past time to throw out this toxic sludge some like to cutely label as bathwater.
TheKentuckian
Jul 2014
#26
No one should be immune to investigations, it does not matter who or what they works
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Nice judge that presided over Blagojevich trial also sits on FISA court and invests in Verizon.
Octafish
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