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

Bob Feldman bob_jan at xensei.com
Fri Nov 21 18:21:14 PST 2003


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



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