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But it's not silliness to speculate that somebody was behind Oswald I'd almost bet on the [anti-Castro] Cubans. I can understand why they would have reacted so violently. This was the end of their dreams of returning to Cuba, and they might have been impelled to take violent action. Such as assassinating the President.
It seems to me a possibility not to be excluded. We all know that. Dallas was the ideal location for such a crime. Walton delivered his message in Moscow to Georgi Bolshakov, who had been a backchannel to the Soviet leadership and was asked to repeat it to Khrushchev.
This incident occurred a week after the assassination; the story is also recounted in One Hell of a Gamble. Many of the facts about Oswald unavoidably pointed to a Cuban connection Haldeman with Joseph DiMona, p. Richard Schweiker, Senator and former Church Committee member: They pinned the assassination of Kennedy on the right wing, the Birchers. It was done by a Communist and it was the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetuated.
And I respectfully suggest, can't we pin this on one of theirs?
This quote has been misinterpreted to suggest that Nixon called the Warren Commission a "hoax. Over the years I have come to believe that the paroxysms of grief that tormented Robert Kennedy for years after his brother's death arose, at least in part, from a sense that his efforts to eliminate Castro led to his brother's assassination.
There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position, and I feel that we need to correct it. Excerpted in the Church Committee testimony of Clark Clifford. We also now know that the Agency set up a process that could only have been designed to frustrate the ability of the committee in to obtain any information that might adversely affect the Agency.
Many have told me that the culture of the Agency is one of prevarication and dissimulation and that you cannot trust it or its people. I am now in that camp.
Second, it costs money to go that distance. He Oswald stormed into the embassy, demanded the visa, and when it was refused to him, headed out saying 'I'm going to kill Kennedy for this. What is your government doing to catch the other assassins? It took about three people.
Perhaps it is this that is the key to the mystery of the death of President John F. Edgar Hoover of the FBI and Chief James Rowley of the Secret Service, whose duty it was to protect the life of the President, testified that to their knowledge there was no sign of any conspiracy.
To say now that these people, as well as the Commission, suppressed, neglected to unearth, or overlooked evidence of a conspiracy would be an indictment of the entire government of the United States. It would mean the whole structure was absolutely corrupt from top to bottom, with not one person of high or low rank willing to come forward to expose the villany Do you know of a good quote not listed here?
Please send us an email at [mailto: According to an intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Lee Oswald was at the Soviet embassy there on 28 September and spoke with the consul, Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov. He cites a source, a German national woman who lives in Oklahoma, met with Kostkikov and another Department 13 officer, Oleg Brykin. He adds, as a brief coda, that that same Soviet admiral says such blatant meetings by intelligence officers could also be simple carelessness. The FBI had warning of a potential death threat to Lee Harvey Oswald, according to a memo by director J Edgar Hoover, which reveals some of the bureaus reactions to the assassination.
Last night we received a call in our Dallas office from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill Oswald. We at once notified the chief of police and he assured us Oswald would be given sufficient protection. This morning we called the chief of police again warning of the possibility of some effort against Oswald and again he assured us adequate protection would be given. However, this was not done.
Ruby denied making any phone call. But then Hoover said that he and Nicholas Katzenbach, the deputy attorney general, already feared the spread of rumors and conspiracy theories. He noted that Oswald had visited Mexico City, called the Cuban embassy there, and sent a letter to the Soviet embassy about a visa.
The FBI also was trying to monitor Oswald before the assassination, according to two memos. In a mirror of his American counterparts, one Soviet leader, in particular, was convinced that the KGB needed to get to the bottom of some kind of wide-ranging plot to destabilize the US. Nothing worth anything, Nonsenko told them.
They were also frightened that a panicked, reactive military would lash out at the USSR, and desperately wanted to learn more about what kind of person Lyndon Johnson was. Our source further stated that Soviet officials were fearful that without leadership, some irresponsible general in the United States might launch a missile at the Soviet Union. They disclaimed him entirely. A huge swath of the CIA files are receipts and financial accounts for clandenstine projects: In a set of documents from the s investigation, FBI staff are grilled by a Senate committee about their failure to stop Lee Harvey Oswald after his six-day trip to Mexico City in September Alan Yuhas in New York alanyuhas.