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John J. McCloy covered_up
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“where that somewhat disdainful attitude comes from, and why it really matters. And I think a lot of, if we think about, for example, the history that we now know, thanks to the amazing work of Jim DiEugenio over at kennedysandking.com, he's…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars Chap 7a @ 1:04:49
J. Lee Rankin concocted
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“concocting the infamous magic bullet theory to reinforce the lone gunman story. Yes, that was the fake story created by Lee Rankin and Arlen Specter. As the groundswell of a call for a new investigation grew, Dulles realized that a major co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 55:01
Arlen Specter concocted
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“concocting the infamous magic bullet theory to reinforce the lone gunman story. Yes, that was the fake story created by Lee Rankin and Arlen Specter. As the groundswell of a call for a new investigation grew, Dulles realized that a major co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 55:01
Allen Dulles provided_copies_of
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“knew that Robert Kennedy was the only man who could bring them to justice. They had sought to keep him close after Dallas, with Dulles showering his condolences on the Kennedy family. Quote, you have been much in my thoughts, and Jackie, Et…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 33:15
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where that somewhat disdainful attitude comes from, and why it really matters. And I think a lot of, if we think about, for example, the history that we now know, thanks to the amazing work of Jim DiEugenio over at kennedysandking.com, he's…
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Following the release of the Warren report, there are still a few murmurs of doubt, including some within the commission itself. Senator Russell, who strongly suspected that Oswald had been backed by others, seemed eager to distance himself…
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about the official story convinced themselves that the national shame had to be laid to rest, but the nightmare of Dallas kept afflicting the nation's slumber. Its tell-tale heart kept beating beneath the floorboards, even though they tried…
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Allen Dulles agreed to spend a few days in Los Angeles at the campus of the University of California, as well as part of a lecturer series. All he had to do for what was described as a princely sum of money was to give a few talks, rub elbo…
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men and women from all walks of life, none of them famous except for Mark Lane, who the CIA-inspired bad press of bullish personalities had rendered him notorious. Among these critics of the official story were farmers, salesmen, newspaper …
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would make them a target of media mockery. But they were doing the work the American press refused to do. Among this band of loosely connected independent researchers was a 26-year-old UCLA graduate student in engineering and physics. His n…
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until he happened to attend a lecture of Mark Lane in September 1964, around the time the report had been released. The graduate student went to the lecture as a lark. He said for the same reasons he might go to an eccentric lecturer on The…
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into researching the Kennedy assassination. Back in LA, Lifton plunked down $76 in a local bookstore to buy the entire 26-volume set of the Warren Report. He spent an entire year looking over everything. He added another dimension to his un…
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By the time Dulles arrived at UCLA, David Lifton was ready to do battle. Contacting the student who was acting as Dulles' host, Lifton passed word that he would like to sit down with a spymaster for a 15-minute interview to discuss the repo…
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pipe and leaned back in his chair. Still alert at 72, Dulles scanned the group of 40 or so students sitting in chairs semicircle in front of him. Lipton had brought along an arsenal of evidence, including two hefty volumes of the Warren Rep…
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He also brought friends. After Dulles deflected a question from a student about the CIA budget, the spymaster suddenly found himself confronted by Lifton. Lifton, not knowing how long he'd be given the floor, leaped right into the heart of …
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We have found no evidence of a conspiracy, Dulles corrected him. There was a twinkle in his eye. Undeterred, Lipton kept going. Contrary to the commission's conclusion, he asserted, there was ample evidence to suggest a conspiracy, not the …
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Much of Dulles' time during his golden years were absorbed by growing controversy about the Warren Report. He knew his legacy was tied to the credibility of the investigation, and he defended it. In 1966, Dulles and the commission colleague…
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Jay Epstein's book, The Inquest, and Harold Weisberg's Whitewashed ripped holes through the Warren Report. And I will share with you, the first book I ever read about any of this was like three and a half years ago, and it was Mark Lane's R…
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Dulles was particularly disturbed by the inquest. It was a methodical dissection of the report's weaknesses that had begun as Epstein's master thesis at Cornell. To their little regret, some commission staff members had cooperated with Epst…
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lauded the book in the Washington Post and used his review to call for a reopening of the investigation, a bombshell that marked the first time a member of Kennedy's inner circle had issued such a call. Dulles' anxiety was overwhelming. He …
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concocting the infamous magic bullet theory to reinforce the lone gunman story. Yes, that was the fake story created by Lee Rankin and Arlen Specter. As the groundswell of a call for a new investigation grew, Dulles realized that a major co…
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Once again, he rallied his media allies, the U.S. News and World Report founder, David Lawrence, whom Dulles described to Rankin as an old and very close friend, who published a ringing defense of the Warren Report by Specter, yes, Arlen Sp…
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The propaganda campaign on behalf of the Warren Report was primarily run out of the CIA by Dulles, Angleton, and Ray Rocha, the same people involved in the cover-up. In 1967, CIA documents later released under the Freedom of Information Act…
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In response, the agency sought to provide friendly journalists with material for countering and discrediting the claims and calling anybody that wrote anything outside of the Warren report a conspiracy theorist. So wear it proudly. One way …
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As time went by, even friends of Dulles began to air their doubts to him about the Warren Report. His European friends were particularly skeptical, but some of his intimate closer to home, including Mary Bancroft, began challenging him abou…
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Throughout the entire Warren Commission inquiry, Bancroft was a weathervane for shifting opinions in New York City. She started to consider whether the outspoken critic was right. After listening to him, she was quoted as saying, even I beg…
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Dulles' longtime confidant had gone over to the other side, much to his chagrin. That November, after Mary sent Clover a letter about the commission's failings, Allen wrote her back saying, quote, I imagine that we will have to agree to dis…
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bound set copies of the Warren Report. He felt all over himself in eagerness to respond to queries from RFK, including Bobby's request for him to sit for an interview with the Kennedy Library. In his oral history for the library, Dulles fur…