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Tue Nov 23, 2021, 03:18 PM

moondust (19,214 posts)

11. +1

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
It really is complicated. We need secrecy, but we also need oversight.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#2
i can't say it was actually the CIA/Oswald	CatWoman	Nov 2021	#3
With so many suspects, it's possible there was cooperation.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#4
insofar as there was a plot beyond Oswald, it was probably some combination of both	Volaris	Nov 2021	#13
The Mafia and the CIA has/had a long history of cooperation	dflprincess	Nov 2021	#15
Had not seen this before. Thanks. nt	Hekate	Nov 2021	#5
You are welcome! Truman added...	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#18
Dulles and United Fruit	jalan48	Nov 2021	#6
What's good for UFCO is good for America.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#19
Unfortunately, too many Americans want to believe in the mythology that the US (CIA) goals	jalan48	Nov 2021	#21
There is no doubt in my mind	kellytore	Nov 2021	#7
+1	moondust	Nov 2021	#11
Seven months before Oswald killed JFK he shot at, and missed, General Edwin Walker.	Saboburns	Nov 2021	#17
Just the Magic Bullet by itself is evidence for conspiracy.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#20
Oswald was not a "trained sharpshooter"	former9thward	Nov 2021	#39
Give 'em hell, Harry!	calimary	Nov 2021	#8
You are welcome! What Truman said...	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#22
Indeed!	calimary	Nov 2021	#26
Read David Talbot's "The Devil's Chessboard"	LymphocyteLover	Nov 2021	#9
Dulles being on the Warren Commission	dflprincess	Nov 2021	#16
Oh, I didn't know that, but I was a...	electric_blue68	Nov 2021	#36
I was there when Talbot first spoke in public about that book.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#23
Thanks... and there was seriously a media blackout on that book	LymphocyteLover	Nov 2021	#25
'Breach of Trust' by Gerald D. McKnight also is an important read.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#35
Thanks!	LymphocyteLover	Nov 2021	#41
From what I've read of Allen Dulles, he was the impetus for the permanent classified secrecy that	ancianita	Nov 2021	#10
One secret: the NAZI touch on the Warren Commission.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#30
Thanks! Yes, indeed, we have to keep our fascist Nazi war connection in mind as we deal with	ancianita	Nov 2021	#40
Here's good book about the shenanigans of the CIA under Allen Dulles.	Lonestarblue	Nov 2021	#12
That's a GREAT book.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#31
Really interesting articles - thank you for posting!	lagomorph777	Nov 2021	#14
MOST interesting reading. "The Devil's Chessboard."	calimary	Nov 2021	#27
from 'Leave it to Beaver' to Frontline	LessAspin	Nov 2021	#28
"Dulles had even less respect for Jack Kennedy's authority than he did for FDR's."	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#32
Kick for later reading	Poiuyt	Nov 2021	#24
CIA Admitted To Lying About JFK's Assassination, But No One Really Noticed	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#33
Bookmarking. A fascinating thread. The Dulles brothers	Boomerproud	Nov 2021	#29
Talbot "traces the pathology of Dulles and his appalling cabal..."	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#34
Seems to me that in order to have a better...	electric_blue68	Nov 2021	#37
K & R Bookmarked	FakeNoose	Nov 2021	#38

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