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edward connor's avatar

Two CIA officers admitted they were aware of a plot before 11/22 (Hunt and Phillips); one admitted he participated in that plot (Morales). Two contract agents (Trafficante and Marcello) admitted they were involved in the plot.

Bill Harvey died, but his widow admitted he wanted JFK dead.

Am I missing something? Was Nixon on to something when he asked Helms, "Who killed John?"

(Helms did not answer).

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TemplarScribe's avatar

Follow the clues surrounding Nixon's 18 1/2 minute tape gap from a June 20th, 1972, Oval Office meeting. On that day, Nixon instructed H.R. Haldeman to have the CIA pressure the FBI into dropping its Watergate investigation, because the investigation would "open up the whole Bay of Pigs thing." See pages 110 ff of Mark Lane's "Plausible Denial," which includes Nixon's taped comments that they should threaten the CIA with exposing E. Howard Hunt's role in Watergate, by promising:

"Hunt...will uncover a lot of things. You open that scab, there's a hell of a lot of things...Tell them we just feel it would be very detrimental to have this thing go any further. This involves these Cubans, Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky that we have nothing to do with, ourselves."

There was a further incident on June 23rd, when Haldeman told then CIA Director Richard Helms that Nixon had threatened that the FBI investigation of Watergate would "be connected to the Bay of Pigs, and if it blows up, the Bay of Pigs may be blown."

To which Helms grew furious and yelled, "This has nothing to do with the Bay of Pigs!"

At which point, Haldeman began to realize, the Bay of Pigs references were a code that really suggested a deeper connection with the Kennedy assassination.

There is clear historical evidence both that Nixon was the hand-picked protege of George H. W. Bush, and that Bush was deeply involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion, through his CIA-front company, Zapata Offshore. After the Bay of Pigs failure, there is the assertion that Bush was furious at not being able to claim credit for the operation named after his own oil company, and which used two recently purchased US Navy ships that had been renamed the Barbara (after his wife), and the Houston (where Bush was based).

Buch was reportedly seen the night before the assassination in the Dallas area with ex-Cuban riflemen and a car with a trunk full of high-powered rifles, as attested to by one of the people the CIA had hired to help murder Castro. Bush's role in the assassination is covered in some detail in Russ Baker's "Family of Secrets." There are also multiple instances where the FBI briefed someone from the CIA named "George Bush" about various parts of the Oswald investigation, though GHWB always claimed that wasn't him, not was he ever a member of the CIA before being selected for its head in 1976 -- which many believe, especially seeing his connection with Operation Zapata, as a bald-faced lie.

NOTE: The 18 1/2 minute gap, supposedly an accidental erasure by secretary Mary Woods, was actually someone over-recording that same spot no less than five times. Someone sure didn't want any chance of what Nixon was threatening about "that Bay of Pigs thing" to ever see the light of day.

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Mike B's avatar

This Helms story is also in Scorpion’s Dance.

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Howard Kosrofian's avatar

Yes indeed you’re right on the money. There was an interview with Bill Harvey’s wife on YouTube, I can no longer find it. Her hatred along with her husbands is undeniable. I still believe that Oswald was part of a defection program the government was running to The Soviet Union in 58,59,60.. either CIA or ONI, one of them…

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edward connor's avatar

The video of the late Mrs. Harvey is on the JFK Facts website, but there is no index, so I don't know how to find it.

I forgot to mention that E. Howard Hunt said he was invited to participate in what he called "the Big Event," but he was "just a benchwarmer."

He said he was not inclined to participate in a plot organized by Bill Harvey "because he was "just an f''in drunk."

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

Abraham Bolden's testimony with sound restored (thanks Vince Palamara!):

https://youtu.be/q2viOOjnEZc?si=Ae47tq4RPVXtYmmI

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Paul Q's avatar

Abraham Bolden is perhaps the greatest American patriot who ever lived.

There should be a 50-foot statue in his honor erected on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building.

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

He was very courageous. He stood alone against a totally racist and treasonous Secret Service and almost paid with his life.

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Paul Q's avatar

Outstanding

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TemplarScribe's avatar

Thank you for this! I felt it was a tragedy we couldn't get to hear him live.

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

Agreed. Due to the technical foul up, we were cheated out of what would have been a very important story in the assassination.

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

Oliver Stone talks about the true nature of America as a violent, shoot first country, and the tragic mistakes it has made, in recent history, basically everything orchestrated by the CIA and war machine. He quotes JFK's Peace speech to illustrate the kind of world we could have had without their evil influence.

https://youtu.be/BHMSFSeCJx0?si=Y7bZhNtd4WmA8Ymg

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Mike B's avatar

Hardway’s presentation was outstanding.

If, big IF, the document dump is, as predicted, large and what is hoped, could it pressure Caroline Kennedy to release Jackie Kennedy’s papers including the Manchester interview that’s held until 2067?

Similar question for all of Walter Sheridan’s investigative product that’s is held, I believe, by MBC who has said it’s their information and release cannot be forced as it’s news work product.

Some of documents being argued over for release by the Luna Committee are potentially explosive to Warren Commission Report, that might get the public attention that brought about the ARRB.

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Charles Drago's avatar

Mr. Hardway ended his opening statement with the eloquence reserved for concise distillations of deep insight.

Four words.

"What will you do?

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Bill Stavr.'s avatar

Hardway's theory is wrong.

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Mike B's avatar

Care to provide some analysis, reasoning for your statement?

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Bill Stavr.'s avatar

The FPCC was insignificant and had been infiltrated by the FBI and the CIA. They were not targeting the FPCC.

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