Yes, the CIA Director Was Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up

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69. Why Mr. Slawson is a hero -- even if he thinks Lee Harvey Oswald is the lone assassin.

David Slawson, as a former Warren Commission investigator, tried to warn us that CIA obstructed justice and was told to zip it...

Phillip Shenon, via David Talbot:

• In the years following the Warren Report’s release, several of the commissioners and staff members distanced themselves from their own report and publicly criticized the manifold deceptions of the agencies on which they had relied, namely the FBI and CIA. Among those who suffered grave doubts was lawyer David Slawson, the man who had been the Warren Commission’s lead investigator into whether JFK was the victim of a conspiracy. In 1975 Slawson aired his criticisms to the New York Times, attacking the CIA for withholding vital information from the commission and calling for a new JFK investigation. Within days of the story breaking in the Times, Slawson received a strange and threatening phone call from James Angleton, the spectral CIA counterintelligence chief. Angleton – who had not only closely monitored Oswald for several years before Dallas, but later took charge of the agency’s investigation into the alleged assassin – adopted a decidedly sinister tone during his call with Slawson, making it clear to the lawyer that he would be wise to remain “a friend of the CIA.” Slawson and his wife were deeply unnerved by the call. He thought the message was clear: “Keep your mouth shut.”

SOURCE: http://www.salon.com/2013/11/06/the_jfk_assassination_we_still_dont_know_what_happened/

Gee. This story should be on the front page of The New York Times and Washington Post.

Good thing there's DU and good friends who read.