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In reply to the discussion: After JFK assassination, President Truman put his concerns about CIA in print. [View all]I've long suspected it was just a crime of opportunity. IMO Oswald was an attention seeker (like TFG) who had apparently succumbed to Soviet propaganda and likely hated JFK for his anti-communism and Bay of Pigs. He found out that the JFK parade was going to pass directly under the place where he worked and he couldn't pass up such a golden opportunity.
The book Operation Dragon: Inside the Kremlin's Secret War on America published in 2021 by ex-CIA chief R. James Woolsey claims that Oswald was personally instructed by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to assassinate President Kennedy. I don't know how credible it is. Woolsey was a member of PNAC so maybe has an agenda or something.
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After JFK assassination, President Truman put his concerns about CIA in print. [View all]
Kid Berwyn
Nov 2021
OP
I certainly worry about all the intelligence agencies with the secret budgets
captain queeg
Nov 2021
#1
insofar as there was a plot beyond Oswald, it was probably some combination of both
Volaris
Nov 2021
#13
Unfortunately, too many Americans want to believe in the mythology that the US (CIA) goals
jalan48
Nov 2021
#21
Seven months before Oswald killed JFK he shot at, and missed, General Edwin Walker.
Saboburns
Nov 2021
#17
From what I've read of Allen Dulles, he was the impetus for the permanent classified secrecy that
ancianita
Nov 2021
#10
Thanks! Yes, indeed, we have to keep our fascist Nazi war connection in mind as we deal with
ancianita
Nov 2021
#40
"Dulles had even less respect for Jack Kennedy's authority than he did for FDR's."
Kid Berwyn
Nov 2021
#32