[lbo-talk] "Left" Believers In Warren Report

[Bob Feldman]

Some prominent "left" U.S. pundits still believe in the Warren Commission's
version of what happened 40 years ago in Dallas.  Yet as Claudia Furiati
reported in her 1994 book ZR RIFLE: The Plot to Kill Kennedy and Castro:

"The Cuban State Security Department has concluded that those responsible
for Kennedy's assassination are David Phillips, as the promoter of ZR Rifle;
and Santos Trafficante, as the coordinator of the Mafia participation in the
operation.  And those who fired the shots were Cubans from the `elite
troops' in exile.  The day of the assasination they were deployed in groups,
together or separate, forming a triangle of fire, and one of these groups
was under the direct orders of Jack Ruby.  And who was the ultimate author
of this entire scheme?  Richard Helms, the brain of the CIA...

"According to the Cuban Department of State Security, the Kennedy
assassination was actually planned in the office of Guy Banister...

"Reviewing both their own and the U.S. investigations, the Cuban State
Security Department concluded that in addition to Richard Helms, David
Phillips and Santos Trafficante, the following people also participated in
the plotting of the Kennedy assassination:  Sam Giancana, Chicago's powerful
mobster; the mafioso head John Roselli; General Charles Cabell; Frank
Sturgis; Robert Mahue; Gerry Hemmings; and CIA officer Howard Hunt.  In the
undercover operations department of the CIA, Hunt and Phillips were the main
subordinates to Richard Helms...

"According to the Cuban State Security Department, there were two teams at
Dealey Plaza in Dallas.  By prior arrangement, they performed separate and
different tasks...One of the teams was under Jack Ruby's command.  The other
was headed by Frank Sturgis.  Ruby coordinated the sniper operation:  the
Chicago Mafia team comprising David Yaras, Lenny Patrick and Richard Cain;
and the anti-Castro Cuban gunmen Herminio Diaz Garcia and Eladio del Valle
Gutierrez, both linked to the CIA and the Mob.  There were four to five
shots coming from various positions.  Frank Sturgis was in charge of
communications--receiving and transmitting information on the movement at
Dealey Plaza and the motorcade to the shooters and others."

Regarding the death of Tippit, Claudia Furiati noted in her book:  "Helen
Markham's was the only testimony upon which the Warren Commission could
accuse Oswald of the death of Tippit.  But days before testifying before the
Commission, she told Mark Lane that the killer of the policeman was short
and fat."

Without understanding the role that secret conspiracy has played in U.S.
political life, historically and currently, certain U.S. "left" pundits will
continue to possess limited consciousness of how power really operates in
capitalism and what must be really be done to overthrow capitalism.  And
U.S. left listener financial support for stations like WBAI which generally
overpromote the political theories of the "left" believers in the Warren
Report will probably continue to decrease.

bob