Inside the plot to kill JFK: The secret story of the CIA and what really happened in Dallas
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/22/inside_the_plot_to_kill_jfk_the_secret_story_of_the_cia_and_what_really_happened_in_dallas/Excerpted from "The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government"
Those resolute voices in American public life that continue to deny the existence of a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy argue that “someone would have talked.” This line of reasoning is often used by journalists who have made no effort themselves to closely inspect the growing body of evidence and have not undertaken any of their own investigative reporting. The argument betrays a touchingly naïve media bias—a belief that the American press establishment itself, that great slumbering watchdog, could be counted on to solve such a monumental crime, one that sprung from the very system of governance of which corporate media is an essential part. The official version of the Kennedy assassination—despite its myriad improbabilities, which have only grown more inconceivable with time—remains firmly embedded in the media consciousness, as unquestioned as the law of gravity.
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 2003, when an old and ailing Howard Hunt began unburdening himself to his eldest son, Saint John.
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Laura Hunt ultimately cut short her husband’s extraordinary journey of truth telling with his son. But before Hunt died in 2007, he left behind video interviews, audiotapes, and notes in his own hand—as well as a somewhat revealing memoir called American Spy. Hunt’s confessional trove amounts to a tortured effort to reveal what he knew, while still guarding his family’s sensitivities, old professional loyalties, and whatever was left of his good name. After his father died, Saint John would make a valiant effort to get Hunt’s confessions—which should have been headline news—into the hands of the major media gatekeepers. A 60 Minutes producer spent days poring over Saint John’s rich material, but he was finally forced to apologize that the story had been spiked from above. In the end, only Rolling Stone—along with a scattering of alternative media outlets—covered the story of Howard Hunt’s astonishing final statements about the crime of the century. Saint John’s own memoir of his father’s escapades and his family’s ordeal, Bond of Secrecy, was released by a small Oregon publisher and received little promotion or attention.
This was the story that Howard Hunt left behind. Sometime in 1963, Hunt said, he was invited to a meeting at one of the CIA safe houses in Miami by Frank Sturgis, a soldier of fortune who had worked under Hunt in the anti-Castro underground—a man with whom Hunt would be forever linked when they were later arrested for the Watergate break-in. Also in attendance at the Miami meeting was David Morales, another CIA veteran of the anti-Castro campaign who was well known to Hunt. Morales—a big, intimidating man who had grown up in a poor Mexican American family in Phoenix—did not fit the polished CIA profile. But the agency found a use for “El Indio”—as Morales, with his strong indigenous features, was known by his colleagues.
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David Talbot, the founder of Salon, is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years.” He is now working on a book about the legendary CIA director Allen W. Dulles and the rise of the national security state.
So much more at the link.
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Worse than ever.
It was also extremely disappointing how most of the liberal bloggers also refused to talk about it.
A lot of people are terribly frightened of anything that has even a hint of "conspiracy theory". 
Excellent and meticulously researched book on the matter, by James Douglass:
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
for bringing some sanity into this discussion.
and am riveted. I always believed the CIA killed Kennedy or had him killed. And based on the fact the Allen Dulles was fired by JFK after the CIA's disastrous Bay of Pigs (for which JFK took blame), that JFK wanted to break up that spook network (and its dirty deeds), and that JFK's world view -- especially concerning the cold war and he end of colonialism in Africa -- differed mightily from Dulles and Eisenhower, I believe it even more.
In 1963, I was 10 and living in Washington, DC (my home for 40 years). I remember that special time from January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963 very well since my carpool drove by the White House everyday going from my NW Washington home to an experimental school in SW DC. More than a president died 52 years ago today.
It was truly a special era... the real time of hope and change! But the CIA with its then new handmaiden -- the MIC, and of course the ever present right wing killed it. They all benefitted from Kennedy's murder as evident by their wide ranging scope and influence in today's policies and politics.
Anyway, I recommend this book along with JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass, and Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio and Steven Davis.
Thanks for posting and remembering what this day in history meant to this nation
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