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But the worst indictment of the CIA when it comes to the Kennedy assassination isn't what we know, it's what nobody knows.
No one knew what the CIA was really doing in the early 1960s. And that includes the White House.
A new Gallup poll shows that 65% of Americans believe that John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963 as the result of an assassination plot, disproving the official "Lone Gunman" theory reported in 1964 by the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, otherwise known as the proposed Warren Commission Report.
It's been 60 years since that fateful day when Lee Harvey Oswald, sitting behind a window in a Texas building, allegedly fired into Kennedy's Lincoln Continental as the President greeted the crowd, hitting him twice . Today, many are still searching for a satisfying answer as to who really killed Kennedy. Many hope that if they bring the case to justice again, the mystery will be solved.
How is the Kennedy assassination different?
On April 14, 1865, the audience at Ford's Theater witnessed the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, after which the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, jumped on stage, shot the president in the head and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!" (although the exact wording is debated).
On July 2, 1881, those gathered at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station, including Secretary of State James G. Blaine and Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham's eldest son), witnessed the assassination of President James A. Garfield , when he was shot at point blank range by political aspirant Charles Guiteau.
On September 6, 1901, all the curious well-wishers gathered in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo witnessed the assassination of President William McKinley, when the anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen during a handshake, using an Ivor Revolver .
Kennedy's assassination, meanwhile, was not only the first presidential assassination of the 20th century, it was also the first assassination of a US president not carried out at close range. Although there were many witnesses who heard the gunshots, there were very few eyewitnesses who saw the assassination. Several people also testified that they saw Lee Harvey Oswald and his rifle in the window of the Texas Book Depository.
But these testimonies do not match the various statements given by several people who are said to have been at the scene and heard the shots.
The discrepancy between these statements led to many conspiracy theories being created.
Who was in charge of the Kennedy assassination investigation?
The Kennedy assassination is also murky because of how it was investigated. How could the United States of the 1960s be less capable of gathering information on the death of a president than the United States of 1901?
It was not until after President McKinley's death that year that the Secret Service, an organization originally created to combat counterfeit currency, was charged with protecting the President's life.
McKinley's death also prompted President Theodore Roosevelt and Attorney General Charles Bonaparte to create the Bureau of Investigation, which by the time Kennedy took office would be known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the controversial leadership of J. Edgar Hoover.
This early version of the CIA, under Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, was considered uncoordinated and unable to lead. By the time John F. Kennedy took office as President in 1961, Dulles was placed in charge of the CIA and given much more power.
For the Kennedy assassination, three massive intelligence organizations operating largely independently of each other attempted to "take charge" of the situation.
This was exacerbated by the heavy involvement of local Texas law enforcement, who technically had jurisdiction over murders committed in the state of Texas. What became apparent, especially when the Warren Commission attempted to gather information from these four organizations, is that all groups had conducted their own independent collection and in some cases destruction of evidence.
The non-cooperation of the organizations brought more confusion than the assassination itself as it left many avenues open to various conspiracy theories.
First conspiracy theory: The Mafia is involved in the Kennedy assassination
The most compelling argument for why the Mafia might want to kill a Kennedy is that then-Attorney General (and John's brother) Robert F. Kennedy prioritized dismantling organized crime, even publicly challenging Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa about the connections. his with numerous mafia figures. As organized crime had successfully infiltrated a number of syndicates around this time. Conspiracy theorists also point out that Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963 while Oswald was in police custody, had several interactions with organized crime figures.
Second conspiracy theory: The Soviets had a hand in his murder.
One reason why it was suspected that the USSR killed him is that Lee Harvey Oswald lived in the USSR for a time. But there is no proof that the Soviet Union killed John F. Kennedy.
If there was any evidence of Soviet involvement in the Kennedy assassination, the US would have found it. Secret agent investigations yielded no hard evidence to suggest that the USSR was behind Kennedy's assassination.
Third conspiracy theory: The Cubans were involved in his murder
Shumë njerëz gjatë viteve kanë pohuar se kubanezët ishin pas vrasjes së Kennedy. Problemi është se ata nuk mund të bien dakord se cilët kubanë. Kubanët pro Kastros? Kubanët kundër Kastros?
Për sa i përket motivit, të dyja janë aty. Për kubanët kundër Kastros, ishte çështja e pushtimit katastrofik të Gjirit të Derrave të vitit 1961, një përpjekje për grusht shteti e mbështetur nga CIA, që Kennedy e kishte trashëguar kryesisht nga administrata e Eisenhower -it. Më pas SHBA hoqi dorë nga angazhimi ndaj vetë kryengritësve që kishte ndihmuar të trajnoheshin pas. Plus, dokumentet e sapozbuluara kanë treguar se mafia e Çikagos ishte e përfshirë në trajnimin e disa kubanëve kundër Kastros.
Po kështu, Fidel Kastro me siguri do të kishte pasur arsye të dëshironte të vriste kreun e qeverisë amerikane. Pse? Sepse qeveria amerikane fjalë për fjalë nuk do të ndalonte përpjekjet për ta vrarë atë.
Komiteti i Kishës, i krijuar në vitin 1975 për të hetuar aktivitetet e CIA-s, FBI-së, NSA-së dhe IRS-së, "gjeti prova konkrete të të paktën tetë komplotesh që përfshinin CIA-n për të vrarë Fidel Kastron nga viti 1960 deri në 1965." Në vitin 2006, ish-kreu i inteligjencës kubaneze, Fabian Escalante, pretendoi se gjatë 40 viteve, Kastro kishte shmangur 638 tentativa për vrasje, 42 prej të cilave ndodhën gjatë administratës së Kennedy.
Dhe sigurisht, Lee Harvey Oswald themeloi një kapitull të Komitetit Fair Play për Kubën në New Orleans, i cili e vendosi atë në radarin e FBI-së.
Por përtej motivit të mundshëm, nuk ka asnjë provë që të sugjerojë se dikush në të dyja anët e konfliktit kuban ka luajtur ndonjë rol në vrasjen e Kennedy. Dhe, në fakt, deri në vdekjen e tij, presidenti po punonte në mënyrë aktive për të rindërtuar marrëdhëniet e SHBA me Kubën, të cilat ishin "shkëputur" nga administrata e mëparshme.
Teoria e katërt konspirative: Një shoqëri sekrete e vrau atë
A ishte Lee Harvey Oswald pjesë e një shoqërie sekrete të stilit Illuminati që komplotoi për të vrarë Presidentin? Teoria e konspiracionit nuk është aq absurde sa mendoni.
Në fund të viteve 1950, dy hipsterë të kundërkulturës të quajtur Kerry Thornley dhe Greg Hill vendosën të krijonin një fe satirike të quajtur Discordianism. Dhe meqenëse çdo fe ka nevojë për tekstin e saj qendror, Thornley dhe Hill botuan librin e tyre të parë në vitin 1963 në Luiziana.
Personazhi i tij kryesor, Johnny Shellburn, bazohej në një marins tjetër i cili u betua se ishte komunist dhe më vonë dezertoi në Bashkimin Sovjetik: Lee Harvey Oswald.
Zakonisht, shkrimi i një romani qesharak për një lidhje të vjetër komuniste marine, plus një tekst fetar të rremë për një kult satirik, nuk do t'ju fusë në telashe. Por kur ai marins komunist vret Presidentin e Shteteve të Bashkuara atëherë njerëzit erdhën me disa teori të reja për vrasjen e tij. Detajet e shkruara dukeshin aq shumë të vërteta saqë njerëzit menduan se në të vërtetël Iluminati qëndron pas vrasjes së tij.
Conspiracy theory five: The US government is behind his murder
Over the past 60 years, virtually every aspect of the United States government has been implicated in the Kennedy assassination in some book, blog, or publication.
This is a particularly scary claim to make. The suggestion that a federal government, especially one that so often proclaims liberty as its core ideal, would assassinate its own leader provokes intense public debate. And to be clear, there is and never has been any evidence that clearly links any part of the US government to the specific act of assassinating the president.
To believe that the government was behind the Kennedy assassination is to rely on both the government's lack of full transparency during the investigation and the revelations of other illegal and unethical activities that came to light during the 1960s. These specific conspiracy theories act as a portrait of the erosion of public trust that can occur in the absence of government accountability.
One of the strongest suspicions is that the FBI is behind the Kennedy assassination.
It has been suggested by some conspiracy theorists that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the assassination of the president. This fringe theory was rooted in the idea that Johnson feared he was aiming to de-escalate a war in Vietnam from which Johnson was suspected of personally profiting. The History Channel had to publicly apologize for airing a television episode that posited this particular conspiracy theory.
Then there are the Pentagon Papers. The works of historians, favorable to Johnson or not, largely agree that Lyndon B. Johnson worked hard to increase his power in the country.
During the Johnson administration, the Department of Defense revised its rationale for extending combat in Vietnam to "70 percent to avoid a humiliating US defeat." And we know that faced with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's 1967 suggestion that the US begin withdrawing from Vietnam, Johnson instead "approved increasing the US troop commitment to nearly 550,000."
And finally, there is the Central Intelligence Agency. Conspiracy theorists point to the fact that President Kennedy supposedly wanted to "destroy the CIA." Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA was fired by President Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, but what raised suspicions was that he was one of the seven men who created the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination.
But the worst indictment of the CIA when it comes to the Kennedy assassination isn't what we know, it's what nobody knows.
No one knew what the CIA was really doing in the early 1960s. And that includes the White House. / Pamphlet
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