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AnotherMcIntosh

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3. The CIA ties to assassinations caused Congress in 1976 to authorized (280 to 65) the
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 08:23 AM
Aug 2013

creation of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA).

In 1978, HSCA released its final report which found, among other things,

"2.Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy."
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"3.The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.
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"4. ... The investigation into the possibility of conspiracy in the assassination was inadequate.
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"5. The Department of Justice failed to exercise initiative in supervising and directing the investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the assassination.
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"c. The Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President.
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"8 b.The Warren Commission failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President. ...
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http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/summary.html

The CIA has been in the business of overturning governments. We will never know the extent to which rogue agents from any agency of this country or foreign countries may have been involved in the JFK assignation. The Warren Commission sufficiently quashed a further investigation at the time. What we do know is that the physical evidence is inconsistent with the lone-gunman assertion, that our own governmental agencies did not look further, and that the MSM often denigrated those who asked at the time for a more through investigation as being conspiracy theorists. For more information about the CIA's connection with the MSM, Google Operation Mockingbird. They say that Operation Mockingbird has been discontinued.
Ridiculous. That would assume some sort of connection between Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 #1
I can remember watching the news back then (all 3 channels) while they showed thousands marching in Dustlawyer Aug 2013 #2
His reason for nationalizing oil The Wizard Aug 2013 #7
That must be where so many South American countries got the idea... Blanks Aug 2013 #24
The CIA ties to assassinations caused Congress in 1976 to authorized (280 to 65) the AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2013 #3
Two who were on the Commission The Wizard Aug 2013 #9
Another member, of course, was Allen Welsh Dulles, former Director of the CIA AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2013 #11
The Dulles brothers were, The Wizard Aug 2013 #17
Highly recommended: "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters," Peace Patriot Aug 2013 #10
Douglas uses some of the latest info obtainable through the FOIA in his book. pocoloco Aug 2013 #12
Surprise, the people working in the military-intelligence field have political agendas,. Civilization2 Aug 2013 #4
If JFK could not dismantle the CIA, what are the odds that we can ever do that? AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2013 #5
Anything for the good of St. Reagan and the military industrial complex. mountain grammy Aug 2013 #6
"we" the People, the 99%, DIDN'T go wrong, our self-appointed 1% Elitists went wrong Demeter Aug 2013 #8
And Americans lapped it all up and voted for Reagan. I tried to get people to rememeber what good freshwest Aug 2013 #14
Exactly. Reagan got far more than 1% of the vote. Americans bought it. mountain grammy Aug 2013 #15
One of Reagan's first acts... Old and In the Way Aug 2013 #16
VIDEO here. Yes, I remember that speech. When there was sanity in media: freshwest Aug 2013 #18
K and R the thread mrdmk Aug 2013 #19
electric vehicles....40 years sooner. Old and In the Way Aug 2013 #20
This has been fairly common knowledge since the 80s blackspade Aug 2013 #13
Nah. It's not fascism Doctor_J Aug 2013 #21
This is no conspiracy "theory". Why doesn't this thread have hundreds of recommendations? Enthusiast Aug 2013 #22
How complicit was the media? Enthusiast Aug 2013 #23
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