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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)the WC itself was providing cover for the intelligence agencies, essentially lying to the American people on the grounds of National Security. This should discredit the WCR altogether, and was the primary reason for Congress establishing the HSCA. Unfortunately the CIA also misled the HSCA, even mishandling the autopsy evidence. Funding for the HSCA was also minimized and people like Blakey had no clue what involvement the CIA might have had in the case until later - as you so dutifully point out in this thread, he was more concerned with direct mafia involvement.
As for the scholars, Morley lists them in this article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/the-kennedy-assassination-47-years-later-what-do-we-really-know/66722/
David Kaiser, a diplomatic historian at the Naval War College...
Michael Kurtz of Southeastern Louisiana University...
Gerald McKnight of Hood College...
David Wrone of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point...
You can call them "CT-ists" all you want, I would wager that they know a hell of a lot more about the case than you do.