Reply #259: Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Coverup: Mexico City

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May light pour through that window...

Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Coverup

Rex Bradford
Delivered on November 20, 2004 at the
Coalition on Political Assassinations Dallas conference

EXCERPT...

MEXICO CITY

We learned a lot more about Oswald’s purported trip to Mexico City, which in my view is the Rosetta Stone of the case. Only I’m afraid that this is another one of those areas where the more you stare, the more you go blind.

• We learned that Earl Warren was reluctantly brought on board the President’s Commission by Lyndon Johnson telling him “something that Hoover told me about Mexico City.” <38> Whatever the something was caused Warren to begin crying. That first week Johnson was bandying about the figure of 40 million Americans dead in a nuclear exchange with the Soviets. <39>

• We learned that, despite denials by the CIA and FBI, a tape recording of someone phoning the Soviet Embassy and calling himself Lee Oswald was listened to by FBI agents in Dallas while Oswald was still alive, and those agents reported that the voice on the tape did not match Oswald’s. <40>

• We learned that FBI Director Hoover informed the new President Johnson of all this on the morning after the assassination, and that the tape of this phone call has itself been erased. <41>

• We also learned that the first tapped call involving “Oswald” between the Cuban Embassy and the Soviet Embassy was probably a fabricated tape or transcript, as neither embassy was open that day. <42>

• We learned that the CIA’s translators, as well as David Phillips, remembered a “third call”, a lengthy call, with Oswald speaking in English and asking the Soviets for money. <43> Such a call, if it existed, has disappeared from the record. Perhaps it was what scared the federal government into a National Security coverup, not the more innocuous “visa calls” in the record.

• John Newman and Peter Dale Scott have both written about the “cables of October.” <44> When Mexico City sent a cable on Oswald’s visit in early October of 1963, Headquarters sent back a cable to Mexico City which included false information about Oswald, for example noting that the last info on Oswald was from 1962. At the same time, the same officers sent a cable to other agencies including FBI and State, passing along an incorrect description of Oswald. <45> When officer Jane Roman was confronted in 1995 with the cables in an interview by Jeff Morley and John Newman, she admitted “I’m signing off on something I know isn’t true” and said that this indicated information held very tightly on a “need to know” basis. <46>

• We learned that the CIA, besides its telephone tapping and photo surveillance operations, had at least two human informants in the Cuban Embassy, bugged it with microphones, picked its trash, followed Embassy-related people around in vans, monitored all flights to and from Havana and obtained the passenger lists, and on and on. <47> If anybody plotted to murder President Kennedy inside the Cuban Embassy, the CIA would certainly have been the first to know.

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The fellah in the above picture was "identified" as Oswald by CIA for Warren Commission "purposes."

Gee. It's like they WANTED a war with Cuba.

Where have we heard that recently, burythehatchet?