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In reply to the discussion: Mark Lane, JFK assassination expert, has died. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)108. The commissioners all have passed. Some staff are still with us.
What one said last year re the Warren Commission findings:
Crumbling consensus: Warren Commission staffer recants, says there was a JFK conspiracy
by Jefferson Morley
EXCERPT...
From Politico, a Warren Commission staffer recants
In 1964 Slawson exemplified the lawyers chosen to investigate JFKs murder. The product of the finest universities and law school, they were the ones who could put to bed the rumors and the speculation about the crime of Dallas. They were superior to what Richard Hofstadter called the paranoid style in American politics. They were smart, honest, and they knew how Washington worked. And they trusted the very best men of the CIA.
Now they know better. Howard Willens, a colleague of Slawsons on the Commission, told JFK Facts last year, I was naive, to say the least, about the CIA. CIA deputy director Richard Helms and counterintelligence chief James Angleton were untruthful with investigators, he admitted.
Slawson told Shenon it had never occurred to him that the CIA tried to sabotage us.
CONTINUED w/links to sources, etc....
http://jfkfacts.org/the-consensus-is-crumbling-warren-commission-staffer-recants-says-there-was-a-jfk-conspiracy/
The CIA lied. The CIA director who literally and figuratively ran the Warren Commission, Allen Dulles, hid evidence from the panel, including how the CIA contracted with the Mafia for murder in 1960, under his watch.
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Take a close look at his role in Jonestown. Pure batshit crazy to put it mildly.
hack89
May 2016
#47
How about the establishment documents of the CIA. It expressly prohibits operations inside the US.
Zen Democrat
May 2016
#51
George H.W. Bush should be considered a suspect, based on what he told the FBI.
Octafish
May 2016
#6
You are the most clueless CS poster on this board. Almost a parody of CS everywhere. nt
Logical
May 2016
#99
Truman criticized CIA after the assassination of JFK. Fired CIA boss Dulles demanded retraction.
Octafish
May 2016
#45
that's right-- thanks for the reminder. I heard him interviewed a few years back
Fast Walker 52
May 2016
#65
There is NO credible evidence that Oswald shot at JFK, much less killed him.
Zen Democrat
May 2016
#53
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a realist and a student of history and our times.
Zen Democrat
May 2016
#89
You compared discussing the assassination of President Kennedy to beating a dead horse.
Octafish
May 2016
#71
It's telling that the members of the Warren Commission are silent about his passing.
Kaleva
May 2016
#75
You are most welcome, JonLeibowitz! I very much appreciate that you understand and care.
Octafish
May 2016
#113
My condolences. I know from your posts, he was an important figure in your life.
MerryBlooms
May 2016
#77
I don't know. Do know the guy who did is dead by gunshot under suspicious circumstances.
Octafish
May 2016
#93
It's truly sad to see someone who dedicated his life to crackpot "theories" pass away
YoungDemCA
May 2016
#97