FBI taped RWNJ who said JFK would be shot by sniper, patsy set up for blame (9 November 1963)

Vietnam Withdrawal Plans

The 1990s saw the gaps in the declassified record on Vietnam filled in—with spring 1963 plans for the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces. An initial 1000 man pullout (of the approximately 17,000 stationed in Vietnam at that time) was initiated in October 1963, though it was diluted and rendered meaningless in the aftermath of Kennedy's death. The longer-range plans called for complete withdrawal of U. S. forces and a "Vietnamization" of the war, scheduled to happen largely after the 1964 elections.

The debate over whether withdrawal plans were underway in 1963 is now settled. What remains contentious is the "what if" scenario. What would Kennedy have done if he lived, given the worsening situation in Vietnam after the coup which resulted in the assassination of Vietnamese President Diem?

At the core of the debate is this question: Did President Kennedy really believe the rosy picture of the war effort being conveyed by his military advisors. Or was he onto the game, and instead couching his withdrawal plans in the language of optimism being fed to the White House?

The landmark book JFK and Vietnam asserted the latter, that Kennedy knew he was being deceived and played a deception game of his own, using the military's own rosy analysis as a justification for withdrawal. Newman's analysis, with its dark implications regarding JFK's murder, has been attacked from both mainstream sources and even those on the left. No less than Noam Chomsky devoted an entire book to disputing the thesis.

But declassifications since Newman's 1992 book have only served to buttress the thesis that the Vietnam withdrawal, kept under wraps to avoid a pre-election attack from the right, was Kennedy's plan regardless of the war's success. New releases have also brought into focus the chilling visions of the militarists of that era—four Presidents were advised to use nuclear weapons in Indochina. A recent book by David Kaiser, American Tragedy, shows a military hell bent on war in Asia.

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http://www.history-matters.com/vietnam1963.htm

OPERATION NORTHWOODS:
US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS
TO CREATE SUPPORT FOR CUBAN WAR

From BODY OF SECRETS, James Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, p.82 and following. Scanned and edited by NY Transfer News.

...In Lemnitzer's view, the country would be far better off if the generals could take over.

For those military officers who were sitting on the fence, the Kennedy administration's botched Bay of Pigs invasion was the last straw. "The Bay of Pigs fiasco broke the dike," said one report at the time. "President Kennedy was pilloried by the super patriots as a 'no-win' chief . . . The Far Right became a fount of proposals born of frustration and put forward in the name of anti-Communism. . . Active-duty commanders played host to anti-Communist seminars on their bases and attended or addressed Right-wing meetings elsewhere."

Although no one in Congress could have known it at the time, Lemnitzer and the Joint Chiefs had quietly slipped over the edge.

According to secret and long-hidden documents obtained for Body of Secrets, the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. In the name of antiCommunism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba.

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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/northwoods.html

More here: https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/cuba-operation-northwoods-forgotten-insanity/

This file is a combination of material including FBI and Secret Service documents pertaining to Joseph Adams Milteer - who is often portrayed as having foreknowledge of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

DETAILS RE: MILTEER
Joseph Adams Milteer
(c/o Mrs. C.C. Cofield, 212 S. Troupe St., Valdosta GA)
(Lafayette and North Clay Streets – Quitman GA)
(PO Box 873 – Valdosta GA)
261-32-0646; b: 02-26-02 (Quitman GA); d: 02-28-74

Milteer (5’4”, 160#) was a wealthy racist political activist who was involved in NSRP, Constitution Party, Congress of Freedom, and White Citizens Councils of Atlanta. He inherited approximately $200,000 in money and property from his father’s estate in 1963. No known relatives.

Owned 1962 Volvo, 1963 GA License Plate 61-D 226

Owned 1963 Volkswagen station wagon, License Plate 11-D-2762 – which he traded in 1964 for another Volswagon station wagon.

Published weekly pamphlet re: city government in Quitman GA.

01/29/55 = Arrested on suspicion of burglary but was fingerprinted and released

1962 = J.P Cofield had a contract to haul mail from Valdosta GA airport to Quitman – but when Cofield became ill for several months, Milteer substituted for him. Mrs. C.C. Cofield was a “known prostitute” with whom Milteer spent considerable time.

05/62 = Milteer sold the city of Quitman some property for $20,000

05/18/62 = Milteer and G. Seals Aiken (Chairman and Founder of Constitution Party of GA) published pamphlet entitled “The Last Days of the Republic: Urgent Call to All White Christian Voters in Georgia”. Milteer listed as “Organization Director, Constitution Party of GA”

04/63 = Milteer attended meeting of Congress of Freedom in New Orleans.

09/14/63 = While in Tuscaloosa AL, Milteer contacted a United Klans of America member whom he told that Martin Luther King and AG Robert Kennedy were not important because there was “a Communist conspiracy by the Jews to overthrow the United States Government.” [FBI-HQ 157-1233, serial #3, 1/22/64 Atlanta Special Agent report re: Joseph Adams Milteer, page 14.]

10/10/63 = Milteer was in Miami and distributed leaflets urging people to attend the meeting of the Constitution Party in Indianapolis on October 19-20, 1963. According to Milteer, the Party was going to appoint a Board of Directors to supervise an “Underground Army”.

Continues w/details, docs, sources…

https://archive.org/details/milteer-joseph-adams-2

I am no longer confident that the Central Intelligence Agency co-operated with the committee...

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I was not told of Joannides’ background with the DRE, a focal point of the investigation. Had I known who he was, he would have been a witness who would have been interrogated under oath by the staff or by the committee. He would never have been acceptable as a point of contact with us to retrieve documents. In fact, I have now learned, as I note above, that Joannides was the point of contact between the Agency and DRE during the period Oswald was in contact with DRE.

That the Agency would put a “material witness” in as a “filter” between the committee and its quests for documents was a flat out breach of the understanding the committee had with the Agency that it would co-operate with the investigation.

The committee’s researchers immediately complained to me that Joannides was, in fact, not facilitating but obstructing our obtaining of documents. I contacted Breckinridge and Joannides. Their side of the story wrote off the complaints to the young age and attitude of the people.

They were certainly right about one question: the committee’s researchers did not trust the Agency. Indeed, that is precisely why they were in their positions. We wanted to test the Agency’s integrity. I wrote off the complaints. I was wrong; the researchers were right. I now believe the process lacked integrity precisely because of Joannides.

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Significantly, the Warren Commission’s conclusion that the agencies of the government co-operated with it is, in retrospect, not the truth.

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/biographies/oswald/interview-g-robert-blakey/#addendum

Bay of Pigs

40 Years After

National Security Archive
George Washington University

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AUG 1960: Richard Bissell meets with Colonel Sheffield Edwards, director of the CIA's Office of Security, and discusses with him ways to eliminate or assassinate Fidel Castro. Edwards proposes that the job be done by assassins hand-picked by the American underworld, specifically syndicate interests who have been driven out of their Havana gambling casinos by the Castro regime. Bissell gives Edwards the go-ahead to proceed. Between August 1960, and April 1961, the CIA with the help of the Mafia pursues a series of plots to poison or shot Castro. The CIA’s own internal report on these efforts states that these plots "were viewed by at least some of the participants as being merely one aspect of the over-all active effort to overthrow the regime that culminated in the Bay of Pigs." (CIA, Inspector General's Report on Efforts to Assassinate Fidel Castro, p. 3, 14)

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/bayofpigs/chron.html