I'm shocked! Absolutely shocked! The CIA involved in RFK's assassination? Who'd have thunk it was possible?
Shorty Dawkins
Howard Hunt, the probable author of "Watergate", said that in twenty years in CIA, there were two types of people he'd never met: an assassin; or a fellow-Republican. CIA recruits highly-educated people, who are overwhelmingly Democrat-supporting.
In 1960 Paul Helliwell was transferred to provide business cover for the CIA’s Cuban operations. According to Peter Dale Scott (The Iran Contra Connection) Helliwell worked with E. Howard Hunt, Mitch WerBell and Lucien Conein on developing relationships with drug-dealing Cuban veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion. It was during this period that Helliwell met Ted Shackley and Thomas Clines. Helliwell later became CIA paymaster for JM/WAVE. In this way, Shackley was able to finance unofficial CIA operations against Cuba.
QuoteHoward Hunt, the probable author of "Watergate", said that in twenty years in CIA, there were two types of people he'd never met: an assassin; or a fellow-Republican. CIA recruits highly-educated people, who are overwhelmingly Democrat-supporting.
If E. Howard Hunt said that, he was lying.
Paul Helliwell (Paul Lionel Edward Helliwell) was a CIA operative and "Mr. Republican" in Florida. I'm fairly certain Hunt and Helliwell knew each other.QuoteIn 1960 Paul Helliwell was transferred to provide business cover for the CIA’s Cuban operations. According to Peter Dale Scott (The Iran Contra Connection) Helliwell worked with E. Howard Hunt, Mitch WerBell and Lucien Conein on developing relationships with drug-dealing Cuban veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion. It was during this period that Helliwell met Ted Shackley and Thomas Clines. Helliwell later became CIA paymaster for JM/WAVE. In this way, Shackley was able to finance unofficial CIA operations against Cuba.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhelliwell.htm - Terrible picture of Helliwell...he was a very handsome man in his youth.
I can't vouch for everything in this article, but I know personally that much of it is true.
My experience with CIA operatives (which ended some years ago) is that they were overwhelmingly Republican.
Helliwell was also our family attorney and the attorney for Disney when they purchased the land for Disney World. A well rounded (and very nice) fellow. His CIA involvement became public after "60 Minutes" ran an "expose" of the Bahamian banks accusing Helliwell of financial misdeeds. He died shortly after the show aired and they did a retraction explaining that he was a CIA operative and had arranged the financing for the Bay of Pigs operation. At that point, he was considered a patriot rather than the crook they made him out to be.
I knew Lucien Conein as well. Now there was a character....and probably the person most responsible for the "War on Drugs". Warriors need wars...certainly Conein did.
I guess the bottom line is, IF CIA operatives are Democrat-supporting (which I doubt), it's a recent phenomenon.
Spatter
PS: I have an 8 x 10 photo of an SR-71 in serene high flight on my living-room wall, signed for me personally by Richard M. Bissell, jr.
Don't forget that the CIA is an arm of the executive branch, meaning under the President, whether he is a Democrat or a Republican, so I would imagine that it is populated by both Donkeys and Elephants.
Disinformation On Every Front
by Paul Craig Roberts
...I doubt we will ever know. But I can offer one possible explanation. Nixon, like John F. Kennedy before him, alarmed the military/security complex with his plans to withdraw US troops from Vietnam (Vietnamization) and his determination to open communication with communist China and improve relations.
As President Eisenhower warned in his last address to the American people, conflict brings power and profit to interest groups that benefit from conflict. Nixon, like Kennedy before him, was perceived as a threat by these powerful interests, because he was working to reduce conflict.
James W. Douglass in his documented book, JFK and the Unspeakable, attributes the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to the CIA, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secret Service. Douglas reports that these powerful government institutions were concerned by Kennedy’s refusal to approve Operation Northwoods, to back the CIA’s invasion of Cuba, and to confront the Soviets militarily over the Cuban missile crisis and by Kennedy’s plans to end US military intervention in Vietnam. JFK also told his brother Robert that after his re-election he was going to break the CIA into a thousand pieces.
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There was enough suspicion of JFK’s assassination that yet another president assassinated by another “unhinged lone gunman” might raise more eyebrows. Nixon was disliked by the media, which made him a good candidate for political assassination. The Watergate burglary provided the opportunity. The Washington Post did the job with reports of “Deep Throat” meeting with reporters in spooky underground parking lots after midnight. Little, if any, information of consequence was contained in these reports. Instead, the newspaper’s reporting transferred the spooky danger of the deserted parking garages to Nixon and an aura of evil was attached to Nixon that eroded his support.
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The Two NPIC Zapruder Film Events: Signposts Pointing to the Film’s Alteration
by Douglas P. Horne
Most Americans don’t know anything about the two significant events involving the famous Zapruder film of President Kennedy’s Assassination that took place back-to-back, on successive nights, at the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) – in Washington, D.C. – on the weekend immediately following JFK’s assassination. But anyone evenly remotely interested in what is perhaps the key piece of film evidence in the Kennedy assassination – what for decades was viewed as the “bedrock evidence” in the case, the “closest thing to ground truth” – needs to become acquainted with what happened to Abraham Zapruder’s home movie of JFK’s assassination during the three days immediately following President Kennedy’s death.
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