While the mainstream media was announcing for the past two weeks
that President Trump was going to release the CIA’s long-secret records on the
JFK assassination, I took a different position. On Monday of this week, I
predicted that Trump would make a deal with the CIA that would enable the CIA
to continue its cover-up of the JFK assassination. (See “I Predict Trump Will Continue the CIA’s JFK Assassination Cover-Up”
and “No Smoking Guns in the JFK Records?”)
On Thursday, the day of the
deadline established by law for releasing the records, Trump granted the CIA’s
request for continued secrecy, on grounds of “national security,” more than 50
years after the Kennedy assassination.
Please, don’t start calling
me Nostradamus. A blind man could see what was happening. Donald “Art of the
Deal” Trump was obviously negotiating all week with the CIA, and he was
obviously pushing to get what he wanted all the way up to the very last day. On
Thursday, the deadline established by law for releasing the records, the CIA
undoubtedly blinked and Trump presumably got what he wanted in return for granting
the CIA’s request for continued secrecy.
Some mainstream media
commentators are criticizing the CIA for waiting until the very last day to
make its case for continued secrecy. Displaying their naivete, they demonstrate
their lack of understanding about how things work in Washington, D.C. As I indicated
in my Monday article, when someone in the federal government needs a favor from
someone else, the someone else is going to ask for something in return.
The fact is that the CIA
put in its request to Trump for continued secrecy of its JFK records long
before yesterday. But “Art of the Deal” Trump obviously sat on the request,
undoubtedly hoping that he could get what he wanted in return if he just
continued holding out and conveying that he was ready to release the records.
Don’t forget: According to Trump’s
own tweets, he had already ostensibly decided to deny the CIA’s request for
secrecy before the Thursday deadline:
Trump
tweet sent on Saturday, October 21: “Subject to the receipt of further
information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified
JFK FILES to be opened.”
Trump tweet sent on
Wednesday, October 25: “The long anticipated release of the #JFKFiles will
take place tomorrow. So interesting!
Now, it’s theoretically
possible that the CIA presented Trump with some earthshattering new information
on the Thursday deadline that showed that the United States would fall into the
ocean if Americans were finally permitted to see the CIA’s long-secret JFK
records. But how likely is that? Not likely at all!
Instead, it is a virtual
certainly that when Art of the Deal Trump sent out those two tweets, he was
sending a message to the CIA as part of the negotiations: Give me what I want
or I will release the records. In the negotiations, both Trump and the CIA knew
that Trump was in the catbird seat.
In the end, the CIA
blinked, just as Trump knew it would. Contrary to what the mainstream press is
asserting, the records undoubtedly contain more incriminating circumstantial evidence
that fills in the mosaic of a U.S. national-security regime-change operation on
November 22, 1963. That’s what the mainstream media, forever wedded to the
official story no matter how ridiculous and illogical it is, simply cannot
bring themselves to confront.
Trump knew that he had the
CIA over a barrel. As I indicated in my two articles this week, the CIA was
between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, it could refuse to grant
Trump what he wanted and let the records be released, which it knew would point
to the CIA’s guilt in the assassination. On the other hand, it could give Trump
what he wanted and have to suffer the obvious inference that people would draw
— that the CIA was continuing to cover up incriminatory evidence.
What did the CIA give Trump
in return for Trump’s extending the CIA’s 50-year-plus secrecy? We don’t know,
but my hunch is that it pertains to Russia. Here’s my next prediction: the
congressional investigations into Trump’s supposed “collusion” with Russia are
about to fizzle out. That’s because I believe that the CIA, as part of its deal
with Trump, will order its assets in Congress to cease and desist with respect
to that investigation. In my opinion, that’s the price the CIA had to pay in
return for its continued cover-up of its U.S. regime-change operation in
November 1963.
Notice something else about
the deal that Trump has presumably made with the CIA: The secrecy arrangement
extends only to April. Ostensibly, the next six months are needed to carefully
review the records to determine whether the records really to relate to
“national security.”
Not surprisingly, the
mainstream media isn’t even questioning that ludicrous notion. For more than 50
years, the CIA has known why it has wanted those particular records to be kept
secret. During the term of the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s,
the CIA decided to keep these particular records secret for another 25 years.
There are bound to be lots of CIA memoranda detailing why it was imperative to
keep these particular records secret for as long as possible. Finally, the CIA
made its request for secrecy to Trump at least several weeks ago. The notion
that the CIA suddenly hit Trump yesterday with a new argument as to why
“national security” would be threatened, after Trump had supposedly already
rejected the arguments that had been presented to him, causing Trump to
suddenly change his mind, is, well, laughable.
So, why the April deadline?
Why not extend the secrecy for another 25 years, which is undoubtedly what the
CIA wanted?
Because Trump obviously
needed collateral to ensure that the CIA complied with its part of the deal. If
Trump had extended the secrecy for 25 years, he would have lost leverage to
ensure that the CIA complied with its part of the bargain. Let’s say,
hypothetically, that I’m right: that the CIA agreed to use its assets in
Congress to shut down the Russia investigation. To make certain that the CIA
fulfills its part of the bargain, Trump would need the April deadline so that
the threat of the records release would continue hanging over the CIA. If the
CIA fails to fulfill its part of the bargain, Trump releases the records in
April. If the CIA squelches the Russia investigations, Trump grants another
extension of time in April.
Let’s state the obvious:
The CIA records that are still being suppressed have nothing to do with
“national security.” They have everything to do with covering up the CIA’s role
in the U.S. national-security regime-change operation that took place in Dallas
in November 1963, which succeeded in ousting from power a president who was, in
the eyes of the U.S. national-security establishment, engaged in actions that
constituted a grave threat to “national security,” i.e., befriending the
Russians (i.e., the Soviets) and Cubans and entering into peaceful coexistence
with the communist world.
In other words, unlike Lee Harvey Oswald, who had absolutely no
motive to kill President Kennedy, the national security establishment did have
motive, a powerful motive, the same motive that motivated the CIA and Pentagon
to target other political leaders for regime change or assassination around
that time, such as Mohamad Mossadegh, Jacobo Arbenz, Patrice Lamumba (who
Kennedy admired), Fidel Castro, and Salvador Allende. For a more detailed analysis
of motive, read FFF’s ebook JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why
Kennedy Was Assassinated by Douglas Horne, who
served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s.
Immediately upon the arrest
of Lee Harvey Oswald, the official account was that this was just a lone nut,
former U.S. Marine communist who decided, for no apparent reason, to
assassinate Kennedy.
One big problem is the
official story, however, requires a suspension of logic and common sense. For
anyone who has a mindset of conformity and deference to authority, that story
makes sense because nothing is questioned or challenged. For anyone who has a
critical, analytical, independent mindset, the official story is filled with
holes.
For example, how many
communist Marines have you ever heard of? Why would a genuine communist join
the Marines in the first place, especially since the Marines had just recently
killed millions of North Korean communists? Why would a genuine communist join
the Marines knowing that he could be called upon at any moment to go to Korea,
Laos, Vietnam, Europe, or elsewhere to kill fellow communists? How many
communists do you know who like to kill fellow communists?
It gets better.
After Oswald supposedly
tried to defect to the Soviet Union and promised U.S. Embassy officials in
Moscow that he was going to deliver classified information to the Soviet Union,
which was America’s sworn Cold War enemy (and former World War II partner and
ally), U.S. officials permitted him to return home with a Red wife, without
even one grand-jury summons or even an iota of harassment.
Think about Martin Luther
King, John Walker Lindh, Edward Snowden, the U.S. Communist Party, or the Fair
Play for Cuba Committee. Think about how the U.S. national-security
establishment treats what it suspects are communists or traitors. It skewers
them. Why, just look at how they call Julian Assange a traitor and he isn’t
even an American. Recall the McCarthy hearings. Dalton Trumbo. The entire U.S.
anti-communist crusade, including Vietnam, which more than 58,000 U.S. soldiers
died killing communists.
And they’re going to tell
us that they just let Lee Harvey Oswald, a supposed self-avowed communist skate
blissfully across the Cold War stage of history with nary any abuse or
harassment at all? Don’t make me laugh.
Soon after the Warren
Commission was established, Warren called a super-secret meeting of the
commission to address information that had come into Warren’s possession. That
information was that Oswald was actually working for U.S. intelligence. Yes, a
spy, the type of people that work for the CIA. That would make sense,
especially given that the Marine Corps is a prime recruiting place for the CIA.
Semper fidelis!
Now, suddenly, all the
circumstantial evidence in the Kennedy assassination falls into place. It
begins to make sense. The mosaic starts to be filled out: They needed to get
rid of Kennedy to protect national security and elevate Johnson, who had the
same anti-communist mindset as the Pentagon and the CIA, to the presidency.
Unlike JFK, who had begun withdrawing troops from Vietnam, Johnson would
protect national security by sending more troops to Vietnam.
But to avoid detection,
they needed a patsy, which is the term that Oswald used after his arrest. They
needed to frame someone for the crime. And what better person to frame than a
communist or an intelligence agent who the public would believe was a
communist?
Part of the scheme,
obviously, would be to establish Oswald’s communist bona fides. That’s why he
was sent to New Orleans, where, contradictorily, he would work for a right-wing
business owner, work with a right-wing former FBI agent, and conduct a public
protest in favor of Fidel Castro and Cuba.
It was also why he was sent
to Mexico City, where he would be ordered to visit the Cuban and Soviet
Embassies, no doubt being told that he was being prepared for an important
mission, maybe to enter Cuba to assassinate Castro.
But no government operation
ever goes perfectly. Things obviously went dreadfully wrong with the Mexico
City operation because the investigation into it after the assassination was
quickly shut down. Today, it remains shrouded in mystery.
And guess what is included
in the records that Trump has now agreed to continue suppressing. You guessed
it! The CIA’s records relating to Mexico City!
Ever since the
assassination, the CIA has argued that the release of any of its JFK records
would threaten “national security.” One thing is for sure and undeniable:
Despite the release of many of the CIA’s records in the 1990s and yesterday,
the United States did not fall into the ocean or fall to the communists. And
neither would it have done so if Trump had not granted the CIA’s request for a
continued cover-up of what it did on November 22, 1963.
For more information, see:
The Kennedy Autopsy by Jacob Hornberger
Regime Change: The JFK Assassination by Jacob
Hornberger
The CIA, Terrorism, and the Cold War: The Evil of the National
Security State by Jacob Hornberger
CIA & JFK: The Secret Assassination Files by
Jefferson Morley
“The National Security State and JFK,” a FFF conference
featuring Oliver Stone and ten other speakers
“Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK
Assassination Medical Evidence,” a five-part video by Douglas P.
Horne
