{"id":212417,"date":"2015-12-29T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=212417"},"modified":"2015-12-29T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T15:56:10","slug":"cia-lied-oswald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/cia-lied-oswald\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the CIA Lied About Oswald"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a rumination on lies \u2013 layer upon layer of lies \u2013 told by US intelligence agencies and other officials about what Lee Harvey Oswald, or someone pretending to be him, was allegedly doing in Mexico City just weeks before the Kennedy assassination. The original goal, it seems, was to associate Oswald, in advance of the events of Dealey Plaza, with the USSR and Cuba.<\/p>\n

The essay focuses on tales told by Richard Helms, a top official of the CIA in 1963 who later became its director \u2013 and is based on a talk given by Peter Dale Scott.<\/p>\n

Scott is the popularizer of the expression, \u201cDeep Politics,\u201d and a virtuoso when it comes to what sometimes seems like grabbing smoke \u2013 capturing proof, however elusive, of motives and objectives that could explain the machinations of US intelligence agencies \u2013 and then analyzing the residue.<\/p>\n

Not all of the chicanery Scott describes is subtle. For example, in an apparent attempt to bring the Russians into the picture, someone delivered to the FBI\u2019s Dallas office a purported audiotape of Oswald calling the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. That failed, though, when FBI agents decided that the voice did not seem to be Oswald\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Then, two days later, the FBI got on board the subterfuge by falsely reporting that \u201cno tapes were taken to Dallas.\u201d Because of this lie, an investigation more than a decade later by the House Select Committee on Assassinations would erroneously declare that there was no \u201cbasis for concluding that there had been an Oswald impostor.\u201d (The existence of an Oswald impersonator in the months before the president\u2019s murder would in and of itself have been prima facie <\/em>evidence of a conspiracy in Kennedy\u2019s death.)<\/p>\n

And then there was the attempt to set up a Soviet agent\u2026<\/p>\n

You will probably not be able to keep up with each tall tale, nor does it matter. They have a cumulative effect, one that explains why it is impossible to study these documents without coming away believing in conspiracy.<\/p>\n

There is dark humor here \u2013 reminiscent of the television sit-com of the 1960\u2019s, \u201cGet Smart\u201d \u2013\u00a0about a secret agent who was always telling one lie after another, blissfully unaware that each new lie not only undermined the last one, but any new one that came after:<\/p>\n

Smart:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I happen to know that at this very minute seven Coast Guard cutters are converging on this boat. Would you believe it? Seven.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr.Big:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I find that pretty hard to believe.<\/em><\/p>\n

Smart:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Would you believe six?<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr.Big:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so.<\/em><\/p>\n

Smart:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Would you believe two cops in a rowboat?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, would you believe that the US intelligence community has been telling us the truth all of these years?<\/p>\n

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