Valid Conspiracy Theory
John Halle
john.halle at yale.edu
Sat Jan 22 11:41:09 PST 2000
>
> I always admired Alexander Cockburn's assessment of Lee Oswald that,
> whatever one thought of his methods, his reaction against the
> imperialist Kennedy was wholly understandable. Incidentally the Chomsky
> book on Camelot demolishes the Stone thesis. My father sold an anarchist
> newspaper in Leeds around the time of the assassination with the
> headline 'So What?'
>
> - --
> Jim heartfield
>
Right. And its also worth mentioning that both the CIA and the Warren
commission made a concerted effort to cover up what Oswald's specific
motives were known to be, namely to retaliate for Kennedy's using the CIA
to attempt to assassinate Castro. That the CIA under Kennedy was in the
business of running what Johnson would call "a goddamned murder
incorporated" would not become known until the Church committee hearings
in the seventies.
Insofar as there was a conspiracy by the CIA to cover up the assassination
it was this.
John
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