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In reply to the discussion: Let's have a poll on JFK [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Dulles effectively ran the Commission's investigation. The other members deferred to him constantly and he got to censor on the CIA's behalf. Two-thirds of question time was used by Dulles, McCloy and Ford. Warren was a passive chair, initially unwilling to do it when Johnson asked him, detached from the proceedings, and old. The presence of Dulles is absolutely shocking: head of state assassinated and you put one of his main political enemies -- a man JFK had fired and disgraced, a war criminal of epic proportions -- to investigate? True that Dulles's perfidy was partially exposed by the Church Committee, hardly the case that this could have ever been exhaustive. (What came out should have been enough for a noose for a lot of high criminals, but wasn't.)