Following the release of 60K+ documents last year, it is clear that the CIA cannot be ruled out of complicity in the assassination of JFK. Turns out that Angleton was also a ferocious Zionist. Coincidence?
A few tantalizing bits:
...Perhaps the main architect of that cover-up was the CIA spymaster
James Jesus Angleton, who, despite being the counterintelligence chief
presiding over what was supposedly the worst intelligence failure since
Pearl Harbor, wound up deeply involved in the CIA’s official
investigation into the assassination.
Though Angleton insisted that the agency was inattentive to Oswald
and unaware of the purpose of his activities leading up to Dallas, it
has since been disclosed through unclassified JFK assassination records
that Angleton personally maintained a classified 201
intelligence/surveillance file on Oswald for the four years preceding
Kennedy’s assassination, strictly controlling which officials inside the
CIA were permitted to see it through compartmentalization.
Angleton’s deceptions to investigators are so numerous that 60 years
later they are still being uncovered; in one notable instance only
revealed this year, Angleton committed perjury before the House Select
Committee on Assassinations, claiming he knew almost nothing about Lee
Harvey Oswald before the shooting. In another, Angleton concealed the
fact that Oswald had visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico City—a visit
the CIA publicly claimed it only discovered after the assassination. As
Jefferson Morley, author of The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton,
explained, the counter-intelligence chief “preferred to wait out the
Warren Commission rather than explain the CIA’s knowledge of and
interest in Oswald’s visit to the Cuban consulate” in Mexico....
It is correct that Angleton was a raving paranoid. But that doesn't change the facts about the CIA.
Not off-topic, we find that Angleton was an Israeli asset, too.
... his legacy has been consistently venerated by Israel’s intelligence
services. In his memoir, the former director of the Mossad, Meir Amit,
famously described James Angleton as “the biggest Zionist of the lot,”
adding that “his total identification with Israel was an extraordinary
asset for us.” As Morley writes, “Angleton’s loyalty to Israel betrayed
US policy on an epic scale,” probably allowing the Israelis to build a
nuclear bomb using stolen materials from the U.S.-based Nuclear
Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) facility at a time when it
was the expressed policy of the U.S. government to prevent Israel from
acquiring one. ...
Israel's first A-bomb was ready to go in '66 or '67, meaning that the JFK Administration was opposed to that development (as was Ike's.) Certainly helps to have JFK out of the way, then.
But there's more!!
Turns out that JFK picked all sorts of fights with "America's Greatest Ally", thus raising the question
...whether Israel may have had a role in or foreknowledge of the plot
against Kennedy, who spent his final months battling the Israeli
government over its nuclear program, its lobby power in the U.S., and
the resettlement of Palestinians from the land the Israelis had expelled them from. ...
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... [Author] Good also highlights how Angleton’s Israeli channel intersected with
Lee Harvey Oswald. The Counterintelligence Staff officer assigned to
read Oswald’s mail and collect it for the 201 surveillance file that
Angleton maintained before the assassination was Reuben Efron—a
committed Zionist
who had lived in Israel, published on espionage in a World Zionist
Organization–affiliated journal, and, as Jefferson Morley notes, sat in
on Marina Oswald’s Warren Commission interview with no official role
listed.
At the very moment a U.S. president was seeking to restrict Israel’s
nuclear ambitions and limit the political power of its lobby in
Washington, the CIA official in control of the Oswald file was secretly
sharing intelligence channels, assassination communications, and
off-the-books operatives with Israel—and lying to both Congress and
potentially some of his own CIA colleagues about it. The government
spent 60 years redacting those facts and Americans have a right to know
why....
Indeed.
Maybe someone should ask Netanyahu.
BTW, it was Trump who released the documents. Some accuse him of being Israel's Good Servant, but if that were the case, why did Trump release them?
