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In reply to the discussion: CIA director withheld information about JFK assassination [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)53. Which is exactly what McCone did.
Declassified report on JFK assassination says top CIA officials were part of benign cover-up
Barbara Tasch and Michael B Kelley
Business Insider/National Post | October 15, 2015
EXCERPT...
While living in New Orleans in 1963, for example, Oswald shared office space with a CIA-backed anti-Castro group.
Oswald had handed out pro-Castro literature with the address 544 Camp Street on it. FBI agent Guy Banister and a CIA-backed Cuban Revolutionary Council also rented space at the same location.
One thing that Ive always wondered about is (Oswalds) time in New Orleans because he was apparently associated with Guy Banister, who clearly had FBI and CIA ties, and yet hes also scuffling on the street with [the local representative of] an anti-Castro group, Sabato told Business Insider in 2013.
And Sabatos book notes that it could be that Oswald was just a Forrest Gump-like character who popped up at interesting moments wherever he happened to live.
But just as conceivably, whether related to the Kennedy assassination or not, Oswald actually had secretive contacts with the CIA or the FBI, or both, he said.
The report also reveals that in 1978, McCone lied about failing to divulge the Castro plots.
When a House committee asked him whether the spy agency had withheld information from the commission about the plots to kill Castro, McCone said he couldnt answer because he had not been told about the plots.
The report says McCones answer was neither frank nor accurate.
CONTINUED...
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/declassified-report-on-jfk-assassination-says-top-cia-officials-were-part-of-benign-cover-up
Barbara Tasch and Michael B Kelley
Business Insider/National Post | October 15, 2015
EXCERPT...
While living in New Orleans in 1963, for example, Oswald shared office space with a CIA-backed anti-Castro group.
Oswald had handed out pro-Castro literature with the address 544 Camp Street on it. FBI agent Guy Banister and a CIA-backed Cuban Revolutionary Council also rented space at the same location.
One thing that Ive always wondered about is (Oswalds) time in New Orleans because he was apparently associated with Guy Banister, who clearly had FBI and CIA ties, and yet hes also scuffling on the street with [the local representative of] an anti-Castro group, Sabato told Business Insider in 2013.
And Sabatos book notes that it could be that Oswald was just a Forrest Gump-like character who popped up at interesting moments wherever he happened to live.
But just as conceivably, whether related to the Kennedy assassination or not, Oswald actually had secretive contacts with the CIA or the FBI, or both, he said.
The report also reveals that in 1978, McCone lied about failing to divulge the Castro plots.
When a House committee asked him whether the spy agency had withheld information from the commission about the plots to kill Castro, McCone said he couldnt answer because he had not been told about the plots.
The report says McCones answer was neither frank nor accurate.
CONTINUED...
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/declassified-report-on-jfk-assassination-says-top-cia-officials-were-part-of-benign-cover-up
Hence the big magilla over the information linking CIA officer George Joannides, DRE and Oswald; which McCone withheld and CIA continues to withhold to the present day.
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Remarkable, considering how Corporate McPravda has only played the lone nut tune since Nov. 22, 1963
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