Assassination of John F. Kennedy operation
also: Kennedy assassination, plot against Kennedy, the big event, the killing of Kennedy, crime of the century
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Claims (3)
CIA covered_up
Assassination of John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“that if the assassination committee crept too close to the truth, the agency was prepared to scapegoat Hunt and Sturgis. Hunt's luck was run out, and the CIA had decided to sacrifice him to protect his clandestine service. The agency is fur…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:03:08
CIA covered_up
Assassination of John F. Kennedy book_quoted
“an easy target. His reputation and integrity had been destroyed. In the public hearings, the CIA will admit that Hunt was involved in the conspiracy to kill Kennedy. The CIA may go as far as to admit that there were three gunmen shooting at…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 1:03:38
CIA covered_up
Assassination of John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“It conjured up all kinds of swampy intrigue that began leeching through the Kennedy administration after Allen Dulles and his agency suffered their humiliation in Cuba. Everything the CIA wanted to keep deeply hidden, and Howard Hunt was kn…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22 @ 39:12
Mentions (21)
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The official version of the Kennedy assassination, despite its matriarch of improbabilities, which have only grown more inconceivable with time, remain firmly embedded in the media consciousness as unanswered questions that would be lie, ev…
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In fact, many people have talked during the past half of a century, including some directly connected to the plot against Kennedy. But the media simply refused to listen. One of the most intriguing examples of someone talking occurred in 20…
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On the way back home, Hunt told Saint that he had been doing some special work for the White House and things had gone south. It was the beginning of the Watergate drama in which Howard Hunt played a starring role as the leader of the White…
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A CIA son involved with drugs. Huh. A trip that eventually deposited him in the coastal area of Northern California. But by the time he reunited with his father, he was sober, middle-aged, and a law-abiding citizen who was eager to make sen…
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that he was at home in Washington the day it happened, which means nothing. Hunt claimed that he was shopping for ingredients at a Chinese grocery store in Washington to cook dinner that night with his wife when the news bulletin of Kennedy…
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He found his father's cover story about cooking Chinese meal, which Hunt told under oath at a trial related to Kennedy's assassination, absurd. I can tell you that was the biggest load of crap in the world, Saint said. My dad in the kitchen…
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The mystery of his father's whereabouts that day would prey on Saint for years. He was determined to find out what happened. In 2003, Howard Hunt was finally ready to talk. He feared that his life was going to come to an end, and he was dee…
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Hunt suggested that St. will him back to his bedroom in case his wife returned. We don't want to get her upset. St. John said, I think she's very naive about the darker side of politics. Well, Hunt said, that's one of the reasons why I love…
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it soon became clear, was to assassinate JFK. Morales and Sturgis referred to the president's planned demise as, quote, the big event, unquote. In his account of the meeting, Hunt presented Harvey and Morales as the key operational figures …
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I tried to cut short any contact with him, said Hunt. To Morales, Kennedy was a no good son of a bitch, MF-er, that was a quote, who was responsible for the death of men he had trained for the Bay of Pigs. We took care of that son of a bitc…
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that the media ignored, even after it was reported by one of their own, Gaten Fonzie, a Philadelphia investigative journalist who, after going to work for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, unearthed some of the most important in…
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As Hunt related a story to his son, he remained fuzzy about his own involvement. In the end, he said, he played only a peripheral, benchwarmer role in the killing of Kennedy. It was Bill Harvey who was the quarterback, according to Hunt. De…
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That's all been established in previous books we've done. In fact, among the strange and murderous characters who converged on Dallas in November 1963 was a notorious French OAS commander named Jean Sautere, S-O-U-E-T-E-R-E, who was connect…
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brought an urgent inquiry from French intelligence officials to the CIA about a dangerous outlaw's likely whereabouts, since de Gaulle was about to travel to Mexico. Hunt's speculation about the Kennedy conspiracy were in line with the susp…
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anti-Castro operation as the nest, and Bill Harvey soon emerged as a prime suspect. We tried to get Harvey's travel vouchers and security file from the CIA, but they wouldn't allow us to have them, according to Dan Hardway. Hardway was a Co…
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So you're from Congress. What the hell is that to us? You'll be packed up and gone in a couple of years and we'll still be here. But we did come across documents that suggest Harvey was traveling a lot in the weeks leading up to the assassi…
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on yellow security paper with a purple bond marked top secret. The memo disappeared. While the Miami co-conspirators made it clear that Bill Harvey was playing a central role in the big event, they assured Hunt that the chain of command wen…
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As he observed in his memoirs, LBJ was an opportunist who would not hesitate to get rid of any obstacle in his way. Hunt was mindful of Washington's strict caste system, but he was convinced that Harvey's rank and position was such that the…
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passive accessory or even an active accomplice in what would be the crime of the century. But Johnson was certainly not the mastermind, and yet loyal to the end, even to his deathbed, Hunt could not bring himself to name Dulles. In his memo…
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Dulles had recruited them and promoted them throughout the agency. Meyer was particularly beholding to Dulles, who had saved his career in 1953 when Joe McCarthy wanted him purged. Howard Hunt might have been worried about joining the JFK p…
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In August of 78, as the House Select Committee on Assassinations entered the final stage of its probe, a former CIA official, Victor Marsetti, published an eye-opening article in the spotlight, a magazine put out by the right-wing Liberty L…