Democracy Now: A CIA Tie to JFK Assassination? Book on Ex-Director Allen Dulles Questions Role

[villager]

David Talbot, author of "The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government," re-examines what happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and looks at John F. Kennedy’s relationship with his former CIA director. "The weekend of Kennedy’s assassination, Allen Dulles is not at home watching television like the rest of America," Talbot said. "He’s at a remote CIA facility, two years after being pushed out of the agency by Kennedy, called The Farm, in northern Virginia, that he used when he was director of the CIA as a kind of an alternate command post." Talbot also asks why the agency has refused to publicly release travel documents of CIA officials who have been identified for having a possible role in Kennedy’s death.

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, The War and Peace Report, as we continue Part 2 of our conversation with David Talbot on his new book, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government. I asked him why he was—why Allen Dulles was fired by JFK.

DAVID TALBOT: Well, he was fired after the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy realized he shouldn’t have kept Dulles on from the Eisenhower years. They were philosophically too different. And the Bay of Pigs was the final straw for him. So he was pushed out after that.

And—but Dulles, as I say, continued to sort of set up an anti-Kennedy government in exile in his home in Georgetown. Many of the people he was meeting with, several of the people, including Howard Hunt and others, later became figures of suspicion during the House Select Committee on Assassination hearings in Washington in the 1970s. You know, most Americans don’t know that that was the last official statement, the last official report, on the Kennedy assassination, not the Warren Report back in 1964. But the Congress reopened the investigation into John Kennedy’s assassination, and they did determine he was killed as the result of a conspiracy.

So a number of the people who came up during this investigation by Congress were figures of interest who were meeting with Allen Dulles. They had no, you know, obvious reason to be meeting with a "retired" CIA official. The weekend of Kennedy’s assassination, Allen Dulles is not at home watching television like the rest of America. He’s at a remote CIA facility, two years after being pushed out of the agency by Kennedy, called The Farm, in northern Virginia, that he used when he was director of the CIA as a kind of an alternate command post. Well, he’s there while Kennedy is killed, after Kennedy is killed, when Jack Ruby then kills Lee Harvey Oswald. That whole fateful weekend, he’s hunkered down in a CIA command post. So, there are many odd circumstances like this.

I also found out from interviewing the children of another former CIA official that one of the key figures of interest in the Kennedy assassination, a guy named William Harvey, who was head of the CIA-Mafia plot against Castro and hated the Kennedys, thought that they were weak and so on, he was seen leaving his Rome station and flying to Dallas, by his own deputy, on an airplane early in November 1963. This is a remarkable sighting, because to place someone like William Harvey, the head of the CIA’s assassination unit, put there by Allen Dulles, in Dallas in November of '63 before the assassination is a very important fact...

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http://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/19/a_cia_tie_to_jfk_assassination

[PeoViejo]

1. Harvey was likely a Knight of Malta.

Rome station Chiefs usually are.

Joe Kennedy was also a KoM. JFK was supposed to be their 'boy' and his betrayal sealed his fate. These people are a Cancer, determined to destroy the US.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. Wasn't Dulles a Nazi, too ? They were rife in the English-speaking world

before the war, though the actions of the more powerful ones were obviously more hideously destructive.

[Wilms]

3. ^

[broiles]

4. I'm reading it now. Very good read.

[villager]

5. My understanding is Talbot asserts that no candidate can really get a handle on "the Deep State"

...once they get in to the Oval Office, regardless of how much hope and change they offer, or whether they're an almost-socialist or whatever, his assertion is that the Deep State is such a powerful tail wagging the rest of the dog that... well, what does he think can be done, prior to the inevitable collapse that Deep State will bring?