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In reply to the discussion: Yes, the CIA Director Was Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)148. Both McCone and Dulles hid monitoring of Oswald in New Orleans from Warren Commission and America...
The CIA was financing a group of rabid anti-Castro Cubans in New Orleans, "DRE" for Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil (Spanish for Revolutionary Students Directorate). In the summer of 1963, they tangled with one Lee Harvey Oswald, who was handing out leaflets for the pro-Castro "Fair Play for Cuba Commitee" in New Orleans. The leaflets were stampled with an office address: "544 Camp Street, New Orleans, La." which is odd, as that's the side door to the offices of one Guy Bannister, former FBI man and rabid anti-Castro commie fighter doing private detective work for the spooks and such.
CIA admits undercover officer lived in New Orleans
by Jefferson Morley
JFKfacts.org, September 25, 2014 j
George Joannides, chief of CIA covert operations in Miami in 1963, also had a residence in New Orleans, according to the CIA.
In a court motion filed last week, the CIA acknowledged for the first time that deceased CIA officer George Joannides lived in New Orleans while handling contacts with an anti-Castro student organization whose members had a series of encounters with accused presidential assassin Lee Oswald in August 1963.
SNIP...
As an undercover CIA officer living in New Orleans, Joannides was well positioned to report on Oswalds actions in late 1963.
Using the alias Howard, Joannides served as case officer for the Cuban Student Directorate (DRE), the anti-Castro organizations funded by the agency that publicized Oswalds pro-Castro ways both before and after JFK was killed. He also served as chief of the psychological warfare operations branch of the CIAs Miami station, according to declassified CIA records.
The CIA had an office in New Orleans where Oswald, an itinerant ex-Marine married to a Russian woman, lived from April to September 1963.
Lee Oswald came to the attention of CIA-funded anti-Castro exiles in New Orleans in the summer of 1963.
In August 1963, Oswald had a series of encounters with members of the New Orleans chapter of the Cuban Student Directorate who challenged his public support of Cuban president Fidel Castro.
The Cuban students publicized and denounced Oswalds pro-Castro activities on a local radio program.
They sent one member, described as an intelligence officer, to visit Oswalds house posing as a Castro supporter, to learn more about him.
The group issued a press release on August 21, 1963, calling for a congressional investigation of Oswald, who had not shot anyone at that point.
At the time, the CIA, via Joannides, supplied the Cuban students in Miami with $51,000 a month, according to CIA memo found in the JFK Library in Boston. The groups activities involved propaganda, political action and intelligence collection, according to Joannidess fitness evaluation from the summer of 1963.
When it came to Oswald, the DRE delivered what the CIA paid for.
The first JFK conspiracy theory, published with CIA support, on Nov. 23, 1963.
Within an hour of Oswalds arrest for killing JFK on November 22, 1963, DRE leaders in Miami called reporters to say the president had been killed by a communist. The groups information about Oswald helped generate headlines nationwide about the pro-Castro gunman.
The day after the assassination, the DRE published a broadsheet featuring the photos of Oswald and Castro under the headline The Presumed Assassins.
It was one of the first JFK conspiracy scenarios to reach public print. According to former members of the DRE, the group was wholly dependent on CIA funds provided by Joannides at the time.
Attenuated connection
My Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, filed in 2003, sought records that would show what Joannides knew about the contacts between the DRE and Oswald, as well as what he reported to his superiors.
In ten years of litigation, CIA officials have stated repeatedly said they will neither confirm nor deny the existence of records related to Joannidess participation in any specific covert project, operation or assignment in the summer of 1963.
The phrase, neither confirm nor deny, is a standard CIA response to inquiries about covert operations.
In the Nov. 7 court filing, Machen stated:
While it is true that Joannides was a CIA officer and liaison to DRE, an anti-Castro group that had a couple (sic) of encounters with Oswald, this doesnt implicate either Joannides or DRE in the assassination. Even then, the records cited for support by Plaintiff do not pertain to this attenuated connection, and those that do have already been publicly released in the JFK Act collection.
Machens sworn statement erred in saying members of the group had a couple of encounters with Oswald.
In fact, the Warren Commission report found that DRE members came in personal contact with Oswald on five different occasions in August 1963.
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http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/news/cia-admits-joannides-had-a-residence-in-new-orleans/
Gee. Lots and lots of smoke there that We the People have a RIGHT to know the cause. Why does the US government STILL lie about George Joannides and CIA's contacts with Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination?
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I read Specter's request as an admission of a coverup of the actual facts.
arthritisR_US
Dec 2015
#46
Next up .... chemtrails, mind control via vaccine, the pope piloted the 9/11 planes n/t
etherealtruth
Dec 2015
#56
So, evidence -- including what the Director of CIA did -- for conspiracy is to be hidden.
Octafish
Dec 2015
#80
Otca, where is the proof? This would be WORLD WIDE NEWS if it was proved. It is like all the....
Logical
Dec 2015
#86
I was 15 and nothing added up. I became suspicious with LBJ reading a few cold words in near nursery
Zen Democrat
Dec 2015
#128
Once no one is around who remembers, CIABCNNBCBSFauxNoiseNutworks can tell the tale.
Octafish
Dec 2015
#24
"The heart grows stronger by facing the evils of the world." -- Ludwig van Beethoven (Fidelio)
Octafish
Dec 2015
#57
Why Mr. Slawson is a hero -- even if he thinks Lee Harvey Oswald is the lone assassin.
Octafish
Dec 2015
#69
Wish that was taught in school, printed in the paper and broadcast on tee vee.
Octafish
Dec 2015
#70
Where and Why is JFK's brain missingj after it was in government hands?
Ichingcarpenter
Dec 2015
#44
JFK's doctor -- Admiral George Burkley -- thought more than one shooter was involved.
Octafish
Dec 2015
#71
C-SPAN has an excellent program discussing Lee Harvey Oswald, CIA and Mexico City
Octafish
Dec 2015
#145
If that were true, you wouldn't spend so much time trying to stop its discussion.
Octafish
Dec 2015
#102
The humor is that we are still discussing who did it when we know who did it. nt
Logical
Dec 2015
#105
FFS, you are gullible! How many murderers say "I didn't do it"??????? You have to be....
Logical
Dec 2015
#116
K & R and a million thanks, not only for the OP, but for the entire thread
mountain grammy
Dec 2015
#93
I'm adding this December 11, 2003 thread to this discussion, if it isn't already linked upthread
bobthedrummer
Dec 2015
#94
Here's an excellent thread from Bolo Boffin proving Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin:
cpwm17
Dec 2015
#106
I guess, then, the CIA and FBI would be part of a let-it-happen-on-purpose conspiracy. n/t
cpwm17
Dec 2015
#123
Vincent Bugliosi doesn't consider the Chicago Plot when talking about Oswald.
Octafish
Dec 2015
#112
You are most welcome, G_j! Politico seems to be bolstering Shenon's Dallas expertise.
Octafish
Dec 2015
#130
Movie please LOL but seriously, I never believed the official story...this is fascinating
randys1
Dec 2015
#126
It's amazing how so many people implicitly trust the government and think they are
smirkymonkey
Dec 2015
#138
Both McCone and Dulles hid CIA-Mafia assassination plots from Warren Commission and America
Octafish
Dec 2015
#139
Both McCone and Dulles hid monitoring of Oswald in New Orleans from Warren Commission and America...
Octafish
Dec 2015
#148
Excellent points. But if Oswald did it, why does secret government continue to cover-up?
Octafish
Dec 2015
#144