A CIA Officer's Take on JFK: A Rogue Plot
A CIA Officer's Take on JFK: A Rogue Plot
Former Moscow station chief Rolf Mowatt-Larssen rejects 'lone gunman' orthodoxy
“It’s pretty clear after 60 years the documents should be released,” former CIA officer Rolf Mowatt-Larssen told the “Breaking Points” newscast last month. He was referring to the CIA’s still-secret record related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963.
“After 60 years the truth belongs to the American people and the American people should know the full truth,” Mowatt-Larssen said.
I don’t entirely agree with Mowatt-Larssen’s theory of “CIA rogues,” but that’s no big deal. I think his methodology is incisive and his expertise in covert operations unparalleled.
Mowatt-Larssen and former JFK review board chairman Judge John Tunheim will comment on my next JFK scoop—which I believe is the most significant break in the assassination story in decades—at a Washington D.C. news conference on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 9:30 am EST.
The media event is sponsored by the non-profit Mary Ferrell Foundation, which is suing President Biden for failure to enforce the JFK Records Act.
Watch the livestream of this historic press conference on YouTube on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 9:30 am EST.
I’ll really looking forward to this, Jeff. I think we are closer to the truth than we’ve ever been. I’ll be watching!
Mowatt-Larssen’s theory is intriguing, but I still have trouble believing the guy gunned down by Jack Ruby fired a rifle or even a pistol at anyone on the day. The idea that the accused was ever on the northwest stairwell just doesn’t gel either. I think he was involved in some way in an operation, but he didn’t get the full memo, or was deliberately misinformed.
More likely, it seems to me he was painstakingly set up to be a patsy, not an assassin (as Mowatt-Larssen suggests), perhaps over a period as long as 5 or 6 months. “Operation Oswald” seems to have been conceived even earlier, by a number of years, for some other, undisclosed purpose, but then “hijacked” at some stage in 1963, so that the accused became a patsy for the assassination of the President.
Although it is only fiction, I have to say that I find the scenario depicted in the novel “Libra” by Don DeLillo to be compelling in many respects. I doubt that the accused was a gunman, as in the story, but I do think the idea of a hijacked “false flag” operation might have been what happened. The assassination occurred in the period when the CIA was seriously toying with Operation Northwoods, and the killing of JFK was very possibly a consequence of that.