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Aum123 Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 09:04 PM
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Forget 9/11. History never Lies
I have noticed people getting obsessed with 9/11 as if it's the first time that the government could have betrayed the trust of the people.

Check out this video. 6:21 onwards provides an overview of the terrorism carried out by the US government and CIA in other countries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPoltx3rSyI

What would stop them from doing the same in their own country? Please don't tell me that their intentions were noble and they wanted to spread freedom in those countries, especially the ones in which they installed a dictator in place of a democratically elected leader.

Osama is just a pawn to provide a pretext for expanding the war in the middle east. Anyway, it's official he worked for the CIA.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-02-09 09:07 PM
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1. "it's official he worked for the CIA."
No.
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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 07:48 AM
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28. I'm sure you're very happy you found that one little over-statement to jump on
otherwise you'd have to address his main premise-- or ignore it.
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zappaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 01:02 AM
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2. President Obama worked for the CIA?
Truly the funniest thing I've ever read about President Obama. Even better than the anti-christ video I just watched. Good stuff! Keep 'em coming, Aum123!
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jakeXT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 11:40 AM
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4. it's a stretch, he worked for a company that was once connected to the CIA
Edited on Mon Aug-03-09 11:40 AM by jakeXT
Business International Corporation
...
Barack Obama

United States President Barack Obama's first job after graduating from Columbia University was with the company. He held a position as a research associate in its financial services division, where he edited Financing Foreign Operations, a global reference service, and wrote for Business International Money Report, a weekly financial newsletter.

CIA

The company has been identified as cover organization for the Central Intelligence Agency, e.g. see Lobster Magazine, issue 14 in 1987. According to a lengthy article in the New York Times in 1977, the co-founder of the company told the newspaper that "Eldridge Haynes had provided cover for four CIA employees in various countries between 1955 and 1960".<2>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_International_Corporation
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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 07:57 AM
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30. good find
it seems our recent presidents and pres. candidates all had CIA or other intel connections
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vincent_vega_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 07:22 AM
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3. Intent
Apparently you know the CIA's intent then?

I don't know about nobility but I do believe they intended to make the US and it's interests "safer" regardless of the unintended consequences. Expanding the cause of democracy was purely secondary to stability and national security.



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Aum123 Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 01:24 PM
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5. Has anyone read PNAC
Project for the New American Century

I am baffled how the politicians can take their advice from such a bunch of crooks.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 04:14 PM
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7. Have you? n/t
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 08:43 PM
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9. Of course, it's required reading for anyone following Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al...
So, that would mean you've read it, correct?

I certainly have.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 08:48 PM
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10. So I have, or at least their paper on "Rebuilding America's Defenses"
Tell me, of the clearly laid out proposals that PNAC laid out in that paper, which are currently accomplished, which have yet to be accomplished, and what are the progress of the rest?

And can you demonstrate how 9/11 played a role in implementing any of these proposals that are either in the process of completion or are already completed?
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 03:18 PM
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6. IMO most intelligence agencies
in most countries act to protect and further the interests of the state (i.e. the permanent political apparatus).

That doesn't always coincide with furthering the interests of the citizenry.
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Aum123 Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 06:03 PM
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8. Just a correction:
"That doesn't always coincide with furthering the interests of the citizenry."

Just a correction:

That, more or less, always doesn't coincide with furthering the interests of the citizenry.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 08:44 AM
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61. That's true, but it isn't saying much.

Plenty of agencies could say the same thing. In this country, the CIA acts mainly to protect and assist large/powerful business
interests.
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rollingrock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-03-09 08:57 PM
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11. The Gulf of Tonkin incident
proves beyond all doubt: they will make up any stupid bullshit to start a war.
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Aum123 Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 12:03 PM
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12. Operation Nortwoods proves
that they will kill a few of the people in their own country in a heartbeat if it serves to promote their agenda
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 12:44 PM
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13. Do you know why Northwoods was scrapped?
n/t
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Aum123 Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 03:07 PM
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14. Do you know why 9/11 Operation Osama wasn't scrapped? n/t
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 03:19 PM
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15. What the fuck are you yammering about?
n/t
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 03:19 PM
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Aum123 Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 04:19 PM
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17. You realize that Osama was called Tim Osman by CIA?
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 05:18 PM
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18. And your proof is a easily forged piece of paper, right? n/t
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 05:35 PM
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19. You realize that you're spouting nonsense from...
dubious CT websites, don't you?

Do you bother to fact-check any of this stuff or do you just blindly buy what you read? You might want to research the logical fallacy known as "false certainty" because you're standing square in the middle of it as we speak, dude.
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Aum123 Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 08:35 PM
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20. Dude, argument is futile
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 08:54 PM
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21. Yeah, you just KNOW you're right, right?
Maybe you should question how open-minded you are.
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Aum123 Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 10:21 PM
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22. No dude
In fact, I am absolutely sure that there are many aspects of the story that I can never be completely sure of. It's exceedingly difficult to put all the broken pieces together in an event like this.

I just have my doubts about various parts of the official story. And, I just wonder how anyone can take it at face value.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 10:27 PM
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23. Why don't you point to someone who "takes it at face value"?
I'd love to hear who that is.
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Aum123 Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 11:07 PM
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24. I wish I could introduce some of my acquaintances to you.
However, I'd be interested in knowing if there is any part of the official story that you find suspicious or a blatant lie.
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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 07:51 AM
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29. *crickets*
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 11:07 PM
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25. It was scrapped because JFK wouldn't have anything to do with it..
JFK removed Lyman Lemnitzer as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (the JCS drafted Operation Northwoods) over this. Also fired were then CIA director Allen W. Dulles, Deputy Director Charles P. Cabell, and Deputy Director Richard Bissell. Kennedy also sought to bring changes in the way that the CIA operated...

Funny how he wound up dead not long afterward, huh?

Do you think Bush/Cheney would reject a plan like this if it was proposed to them? I personally think they would have jumped at the chance.. but that's just purely my opinion...


How's the world treating you? :hi:


Peace,

Ghost
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 11:28 PM
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26. Better question, dude...
How's the world treating YOU?

We're all in your corner, dude. Please let us know how you're doing, pal!

P.S. I don't believe the CIA had anything to do with JFK's assassination.
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 09:49 AM
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31. I'm doing good here, brother... thanks for asking...
Hope you're doing well, also...

:hi:

Peace,

Ghost

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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 09:55 AM
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32. Not even indirectly?


"P.S. I don't believe the CIA had anything to do with JFK's assassination."


Does that mean that you agree that the assassins did not include anyone with the name Oswald?
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-08-09 08:08 AM
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37. Oswald didn't work for the CIA...
dude.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-08-09 08:19 AM
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38. CIA never acknowledges that anyone works for the CIA

So, there's no way that you or anyone else can say for certain about who did or didn't work for CIA...directly or indirectly.
I think Oswald's employment status with U.S. intel services depends on how you define "worked" for them.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-08-09 09:37 AM
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39. Total bullshit...
Edited on Sat Aug-08-09 09:57 AM by SDuderstadt
I have known several CIA employees in my life. It's really silly to claim that the CIA never acknowledges anyone works for them. You seem to believe all CIA employees work in Clandestine Services.

Here are the names of several CIA employees FROM THEIR WEBSITE.

Leadership

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is Leon E. Panetta. The D/CIA serves as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency and reports to the Director of National Intelligence. The D/CIA is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The Director manages the operations, personnel and budget of the CIA and acts as the National Human Source Intelligence (HUMINT) Manager.


Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
The Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is Stephen R. Kappes. The DD/CIA assists the Director in his duties as head of the CIA and exercises the powers of the Director when the Director’s position is vacant or in the Director’s absence or disability.


Associate Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
The Associate Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a position created July 5, 2006, was delegated all authorities and responsibilities vested previously in the post of Executive Director. The post of Executive Director, which was responsible for managing the CIA on a day-to-day basis, was simultaneously abolished. The current Associate Deputy Director is Scott White.


Director of Intelligence
The Directorate of Intelligence, the analytical branch of the CIA, is responsible for the production and dissemination of all-source intelligence analysis on key foreign issues. The current director is Michael J. Morell.


Director of the National Clandestine Service
The National Clandestine Service is responsible for the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence. The current director is Michael Sulick.


Director of Science & Technology
The Directorate of Science and Technology creates and applies innovative technology in support of the intelligence collection mission. The current director is Stephanie L. O’Sullivan.


Director of Support
The Directorate of Support provides the mission critical elements of the Agency's support foundation: people, security, information, property, and financial operations. The current director is under cover.


Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence
The Center for the Study of Intelligence maintains the Agency's historical materials and promotes the study of intelligence as a legitimate and serious discipline. The current director is Carmen A. Medina.


General Counsel
The Office of General Counsel advises the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on all legal matters relating to his role as CIA director and is the principal source of legal counsel for the CIA. The current Acting General Counsel is John A. Rizzo.


Director of Public Affairs
The Office of Public Affairs advises the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on all media, public policy, and employee communications issues relating to his role as CIA director and is the CIA’s principal communications focal point for the media, the general public and Agency employees.


If you're going to make categorically stupid claims, you might want to confine them to ones that aren't so easily refuted.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-08-09 11:24 AM
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40. Great find!

Oswald was a CLANDESTINE operative for intelligence services and the FBI, but there's plenty of information about his activities that can be discovered with just a little bit of the resourcefulness you've already proven you have. If you need any help finding it,
let me know. I'll be glad to be of assistance to you. His intelligence services work on behalf of the U.S. is not common knowledge
even among many people who have read about JFK's assassination.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-08-09 07:24 PM
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42. Oswald never ever worked for the CIA, dude...
if you have specific concrete evidence to the contrary, please provide it or else this is just more JFK assassination CT bullshit, dude.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 09:12 AM
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45. Suspicions about Oswald & CIA have been confirmed...

again and again, by independent researchers as well as by investigators for various official commissions such as the Warren
Commission and the HSCA. That JFK's death was the result of a conspiracy is a fact and it makes your ridicule seem even more
childish than well-known conspiracy deniers such as Vincent Bugliosi, who spent more than 20 years writing a book which has
itself become an object of ridicule and scorn for its egregious omissions and other intellectual dishonesty (so much so that
a book-length review was necessary to correct the historical record). Gerald Posner, a CIA propagandist writer, tried to
fool the world with his book "Case Closed", in 1993. It didn't work and neither has any other conspiracy-denier's efforts for
the simple reason that the truth cannot be changed into a lie, no matter how much or for how long someone tries.

YOUR efforts as a conspiracy denier are futile to those of us who know the truth.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 09:41 AM
Response to Reply #45
46. If you have any concrete evidence that Oswald worked for the CIA...
present it, dude...
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 09:46 AM
Response to Reply #46
47. If you can refute ANY of the evidence that LHO worked for the CIA

present it. Just admit the truth: you can't refute it.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 09:49 AM
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49. Dude, you haven't presented any evidence he did...
Edited on Sun Aug-09-09 10:31 AM by SDuderstadt
just speculation without evidence from other people who believe the same nonsense as you.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 10:02 AM
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50. Avoiding the facts seems to be your stock in trade
If you think you can refute any of the evidence I've presented, do so. Pretending it doesn't exist is childish.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 10:05 AM
Response to Reply #50
51. Dude, you haven't presented any evidence...
citing a book which makes assertions without evidence is not proof. Have you ever heard of "false certainty"?

Simple question. Do you have any evidence which can be confirmed or falsified?
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 10:07 AM
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53. Deleted message
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 10:30 AM
Response to Reply #53
55. Yeah, I can imagine being asked for actual proof...
could spoil your little game.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 01:46 PM
Response to Reply #55
57. I haven't asked you for proof, I've provided it to you

And you simply haven't been able to refute it. Your game plan doesn't seem to involve substance.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 02:42 PM
Response to Reply #57
58. Dude...just because someone writes something in a book...
Edited on Sun Aug-09-09 02:43 PM by SDuderstadt
especially a CT book, hardly makes it true. According to all the JFK assassination CT books, somewhere just shy of a hundred people are the actual assassain. Did you, in any way, fact-check the book you claim is proof? Why do I doubt that you did?
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 03:18 PM
Response to Reply #58
60. Just because you can't refute what a WCommission member

said and just because you can't refute what WCommmission member Senator Russell's investigator discovered, hardly means that
the Lone Nut theory has any credibility at all. And if you want to discuss the credibility of Lone Nut Theorists/authors, be prepared
to eat a great big ol heapin helpin of CROW, daddy. Go ahead. I've got a plate waiting just for your dining pleasure.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-08-09 11:39 AM
Response to Reply #37
41. Info on Oswald and CIA
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-08-09 07:32 PM
Response to Reply #41
43. So, essentially, your source is Jim DiEugenio...
Edited on Sat Aug-08-09 07:33 PM by SDuderstadt
Have you ever listened to him yammer on and on? Dude, in another few months, 46 years will have passed since the assassination. If you guys can solve it, what are you waiting for?
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 08:04 AM
Response to Reply #43
44. More on OSWALD & CIA connections

Serious, knowledgeable people have long known about Oswald's clandestine work on behalf of U.S. military and civilian intelligence
services. Since you either don't know much about this or about the assassination conspiracy itself, and I assume you wouldn't merely
pretend to be ignorant, though I can't be certain of that, and since you didn't even attempt to refute one thing in the article
I cited a link to, here's some more information. People interested in knowing the truth about historic events will be enriched.

"Warren Commissioner Richard Russell. Russell was the Georgia senator who suspected from the start that the Commission was a dog and pony show governed by J. Edgar Hoover and Nicolas Katzenbach. So he used people on his personal staff along with other acquaintances to conduct his own inquiry. One of the people he consulted with was Colonel Philip Corso, a retired Army Intelligence officer who had been on the staff of the National Security Council under Eisenhower. Corso did some investigating for the Commissioner and found out some interesting tidbits. He concluded that the Mannlicher-Carcano could not have performed as the official story leads us to believe. (p. 126) He also concluded that there was a Second Oswald. (ibid) Further, that Oswald had gone to Russia as part of a fake defector program being run out of the Office of Naval Intelligence. (p. 127) After doing all this inquiry he told Russell that his opinion was the assassination was a project of rogue CIA agents and anti-Castro Cubans. (ibid) Russell tended to agree with him but he said he could never get the other members of the panel to believe him.

HSCA and the appointment of Richard Sprague. The Sprague chapter is even better. It begins with his appointment as Chief Counsel

Sprague came to the conclusion that there was more of a connection between Oswald and the intelligence community "than has ever surfaced." (p. 56) Two of the areas he was interested in were Oswald in Mexico City and the puzzle of why Oswald was not debriefed by the CIA on his return from Russia.

While in the Far East, Nagell worked in Japan. He used the aliases of Joe Kramer and Robert Nolan, and the CIA has certified this. (p. 61) It was at this time and place, Japan in 1957-58, that Nagell first met Oswald. This was after Oswald was observed outside the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo. (p. 72) Curious about what he was doing there, Nagell arranged to be introduced to the young Marine under an assumed name. (ibid) Also, Nagell told the author that both he and Oswald had girlfriends at the Queen Bee, a famous nightclub in Tokyo. (p. 76) Further, Nagell raised the possibility that Oswald was involved with him and a Japanese local in an attempt to get a Soviet intelligence officer named Eroshkin to defect. (p. 73)
When Nagell left his Far East assignment in late 1959, he moved to Los Angeles, and a he got a job working for the state of California. But, he told the author, that he was still working for the CIA"


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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 09:47 AM
Response to Reply #44
48. "While in the Far East, Nagell worked in Japan. He used the aliases of Joe Kramer and Robert Nolan..
and the CIA has certified this. (p. 61)"


Would this be the same CIA that you earlier claimed never acknowledge anyone who worked for them?
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 10:06 AM
Response to Reply #48
52. Yes. You know why Nagell is such an important witness, right?
The very same CIA. It's a rare admission from them, but it's an important one, because of it's evidentiary value in the conspiracy.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 10:12 AM
Response to Reply #52
54. Which contradicts your previous claim...
did you notice that?
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 01:43 PM
Response to Reply #54
56. Yes, I've noticed your lack of knowledge about the case

I've also noticed that when you've been provided with evidence, you haven't been able to refute it.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-09-09 02:47 PM
Response to Reply #56
59. Dude, just because I reject your goofy claims...
hardly means I have a ''lack of knowledge about the case''. I'm just not easily duped, like you. If you want to prove your claim, you'll need to provide more than just some goofy assertions you read in a book.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 08:47 AM
Response to Reply #59
62. If not from books, where do your goofy claims...

come from? Bizarre web sites run by self-described "amazing" people?
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Make7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 02:03 AM
Response to Reply #25
27. Hadn't those people in the CIA "resigned" prior to JFK being briefed on Operation Northwoods? nt
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 10:05 AM
Response to Reply #27
33. I think you're partly correct about that...
They didn't resign, they were fired by Kennedy, but it was after the Bay of Pigs incident: **smacks self for going from memory instead of double-checking myself**

President John F. Kennedy personally rejected the Northwoods proposal. A JCS/Pentagon document (Ed Lansdale memo) dated March 16, 1962 titled MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT, 16 MARCH 1962 reads: "General Lemnitzer commented that the military had contingency plans for US intervention. Also it had plans for creating plausible pretexts to use force, with the pretext either attacks on US aircraft or a Cuban action in Latin America for which we could retaliate. The President said bluntly that we were not discussing the use of military force, that General Lemnitzer might find the U.S so engaged in Berlin or elsewhere that he couldn't use the contemplated 4 divisions in Cuba."<16> The proposal was sent for approval to the Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, but was not implemented. Kennedy removed Lemnitzer as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shortly afterward, although he became Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in January 1963.

The continuing push against the Cuban government by internal elements of the U.S. military and intelligence community (the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Project, etc.) prompted Kennedy to attempt to rein in burgeoning hardline anti-Communist sentiment that was intent on proactive, aggressive action against communist movements around the globe. After the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy fired then CIA director Allen W. Dulles, Deputy Director Charles P. Cabell, and Deputy Director Richard Bissell, and turned his attention towards Vietnam.

Kennedy also took steps to bring discipline to the CIA's Cold War and paramilitary operations by drafting a National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) which called for the shift of Cold War operations to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. Department of Defense as well as a major change in the role of the CIA to exclusively deal in intelligence gathering. Kennedy was notably unpopular with the military, a rift that came to a head during Kennedy's disagreements with the military over the Cuban Missile Crisis, shortly before the presentation of Northwoods. Personally, Kennedy expressed concern and anger to many of his associates about the CIA's growing influence on civilians and government inside America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods#Reaction
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Make7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 04:01 PM
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35. His [Dulles] letter of resignation was released by the White House on November 29.
 
John F. Kennedy
Remarks Upon Presenting an Award to Allen W. Dulles
November 28, 1961

Mr. Dulles, Mr. McCone, General Cabell, members of the Central Intelligence Agency:

I want, first of all, to express my appreciation to you all for the opportunity that this ceremony gives to tell you how grateful we are in the government and in the country for the services that the personnel of this Agency render to the country.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded--your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself. But I am sure you realize how important is your work, how essential it is--and how, in the long sweep of history, how significant your efforts will be judged.

So I do want to express my appreciation to you now, and I'm confident that in the future you will continue to merit the appreciation of our country, as you have in the past.

I'm also particularly grateful because this ceremony gives us all an opportunity to pay tribute to an outstanding public servant. Allen Dulles' career as a citizen of this country--and as one who has made his vast personal resources available to the country-stretches all the way back to the administration of President Woodrow Wilson. I know of no other American in the history of this country who has served in seven administrations of seven Presidents--varying from party to party, from point of view to point of view, from problem to problem, and yet at the end of each administration each President of the United States has paid tribute to his service--and also has counted Allen Dulles as their friend.

This is an extraordinary record, and I know that all of you who have worked with him understand why this record has been made. I regard Allen Dulles as an almost unique figure in our country. I know of no man who brings a greater sense of personal commitment to his work--who has less pride in office--than he has. And therefore I was most gratified when we were permitted today to come out to the Agency to present this award to him in your presence.
I'd like to read the citation.

"Allen Welsh Dulles is hereby awarded the National Security Medal.

"As principal intelligence adviser to the. President of the United States, Mr. Dulles has fulfilled the responsibilities of his office with unswerving purpose and high dedication. His ten years of service in the Central Intelligence Agency have been the climax of a lifetime of unprecedented and devoted public service beginning in the First World War, and stretching through the administrations of seven Presidents.

"The outstanding contributions Mr. Dulles has made to the security of the United States have been based upon a profound knowledge of the role of the intelligence office, a broad understanding of international relations, and a naturally keen judgment of men and affairs. The zestful energy and undaunted integrity of his service to his country will be an enduring example to the profession he has done so much to create."



Note: The President presented the National Security Medal to Mr. Dulles at the CIA Building in Langley, Va. in his opening words the President referred to John A. McCone, successor to Mr. Dulles, and Gen. C. P. Cabell, Deputy Director of CIA.

Mr. Dulles served as Director of CIA from February 23, 1953, to November 29, 1961. His letter of resignation was released by the White House on November 29.




http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=8461
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 10:16 PM
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36. Forced to resign still = "fired"...
During the Kennedy Administration, Dulles faced increasing criticism. The failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and several failed assassination plots utilizing CIA-recruited operatives from the Mafia and anti-Castro Cubans directly against Fidel Castro undermined the CIA's credibility, and pro-American but unpopular regimes in Iran and Guatemala that he helped put in place were widely regarded as brutal and corrupt. The reputation of the agency and its director declined after the Bay of Pigs Invasion fiasco; he and his staff (including Deputy Director for Plans Richard M. Bissell, Jr. and Deputy Director Charles Cabell) were forced to resign (September 1961). President Kennedy did not trust the CIA, and he reportedly intended to dismantle it after the Bay of Pigs failure. Kennedy said he wanted to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds."<5>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_W._Dulles#CIA_career


Within seventy-two hours all the invading troops had been killed, wounded or had surrendered. Bissell had a meeting with John F. Kennedy about the Bay of Pigs operation. Kennedy admitted it was his fault that the operation had been a disaster. Kennedy added: "In a parliamentary government, I'd have to resign. But in this government I can't, so you and Allen (Dulles) have to go."

As Evan Thomas points out in The Very Best Men: "Bissell had been caught in his own web. 'Plausible deniability' was intended to protect the president, but as he had used it, it was a tool to gain and maintain control over an operation... Without plausible deniability, the Cuba project would have been turned over to The Pentagon, and Bissell would have become a supporting actor."


Post-CIA
As a face-saving exit from the CIA, John F. Kennedy offered Bissell the post as director of a new science and technology department. This would place him in charge of the development of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the new spy plane that would make the U-2 obsolete. Bissell turned down the offer and in February 1962 he left the Central Intelligence Agency and was replaced as head of the Directorate for Plans, by Richard Helms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Bissell,_Jr.#Invasion_fails


CIA career
On 23 April, 1953, while still an active Air Force officer, he was appointed deputy director of the CIA. In 1956, along with the CIA's Richard Bissell, he flew to Bonn, to brief the West German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, on the U-2 program. Adenauer allowed U-2 planes, pilots, and support teams to be based at Wiesbaden. He was promoted to full general in 1958.

Cabell became Deputy Director of CIA under Allen Dulles. He was forced by President Kennedy to resign, on 31 January, 1962, following the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion.<1> Cabell's brother, Earle Cabell, was Mayor of Dallas when Kennedy visited that city and was assassinated, on November 22, 1963
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cabell#CIA_career


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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 12:11 PM
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34. Take this a step or two further
Edited on Fri Aug-07-09 12:11 PM by BuddyBoy
Who is the "they" you refer to?

Why would "they" want to start wars?

* Note: I'm merely asking because I'm interested to know your views. I am definitely not saying nor do I mean to imply that
I disagree with anything you said in your post.
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 12:43 AM
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63. Poppy Bush; "what this countries needs is another 'Pearl Harbor'to unite the people" this
was all over the Internetz 5 months before 9-11 and disappeared thereafter...
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 07:15 AM
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64. Some here would say that's just a "goofy claim" Poppy made

They sure gave us enough hints that 9/11 was in the pipeline, didn't they. Or, would you say that Poppy was just
another Conspiracy Theorist who didn't know what he was talking about?
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