For decades, the President John F. Kennedy assassination research community has been unfairly dismissed, if not ridiculed, as agenda-driven “conspiracy nuts.”
But now, the assassination researchers, busy since the Nov. 22, 1963 shooting, have decided to earn their reputation.
Prominent conspiracy activists have hit upon a new and possibly more-remunerative answer to the aging question of “Who shot John?”
Answer: Mossad! And the Israelis perpetrated the atrocity by working through a senior CIA apparatchik named James Jesus Angleton. But first, some background.
Since the slaying of JFK more than six decades ago, questions have lingered regarding the probability that a lone gunman, armed with a single-shot per bolt-action rifle—the alleged assailant Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO)—could have fired so quickly and accurately to perpetrate the foul deed.
Conspiracy theorists have posited many true authors of Kennedy’s demise, from disenchanted assets within the CIA, to the Mafia, to succeeding US President Lyndon Johnson, to globalist-capitalists, to the Soviet KGB, or Cuba’s G2 intelligence service. And others, even less plausible.
In truth, all such explanations flounder in the transition from shadowy theory to facts in the harsh sunlight. The only suspect known beyond reasonable, or even casual, doubt to have been in Dealey Plaza, the site of shooting on November 22, was Oswald.
And LHO was shot dead two days later, by a mobbed-up nightclub operator named Jack Ruby.
Not knowing Oswald’s confederates, if he had any, has left all theories “live,” and none disproven. Yet no concrete explanation—the who, what, and how kind of explanation—has ever been authored.
In a nutshell, we have narratives of JFK assassination suspects, and their motives…and then leaps to accusations of the actual act, with the persuasiveness of a pole-vaulter crossing the Grand Canyon.
In every telling, between the suspect-de-jour and the actual JFK assassination are several missing links in a short chain.
Rising prominently in recent years into this dimming kaleidoscope of JFK assassination allegation has been Mossad, most recently and appallingly touted by one of the dons of assassination theorist community, book author Jefferson Morley.
Appearing on a podcast of popular talk-show host Tucker Carlson (formerly of Fox News), Morley dog-whistled that Israel benefited from the JFK assassination, as the charismatic president had opposed Tel Aviv’s plans to build a nuclear bomb.
But President Johnson gave the thumb’s up!
Mossad is “juxtaposed” the the Kennedy assassination—and worse, Tel Aviv to this day is acting to suffocate JFK assassination-related documents releases, averred Morley.
Israel will tell President Donald Trump, “Oh no, you can’t do that,” on certain JFK Records releases, said Morley. This will help hide Mossad’s role in the Kennedy assassination, presumably.
Others in the conspiracy community have piled on, claiming that President Johnson tilted to Israel in his foreign policy after he assumed office, another factor that motivated Mossad.
Some have even posited had Kennedy lived, he would have successfully reversed “the Nakba,” and thus brought permanent peace to the Middle East. (Israel has plenty of real historians, so I won’t bother to rebut this counterfactual tale.)
The anti-Semitic crackpots, such as those camping at Ron Unz’ website, have seized on Morley’s commentary, the way a fidgeting alcoholic grabs for a drink.
Angleton
But, back to Angleton, the CIA counterintelligence chief. To be sure, Angleton was friendly with Mossad—and, of course, with intelligence agencies of all other Western liberal democracies, and very friendly with the Vatican, then an anti-communist bulwark in Latin America, South Vietnam and Eastern Europe.
Nevertheless, the vitriol-soaked anti-Zionist The Grayzone in mid-August reported that “Angleton’s CIA counterintelligence staff ordered Lee Harvey Oswald’s removal from federal (FBI) watchlists six weeks before Kennedy’s assassination, despite Oswald’s classification as as a high security risk.”
In fact, there is no evidence that Angleton ever ordered any such thing, but more importantly he could not have—the FBI controlled the watchlist in question, and FBI agents do not take orders from CIA officers. Indeed, if Angleton had ever even tried to prevail upon FBI agents, the reality of bureaucratic turf wars would have resulted in the agents forwarding the out-of-lane request up the ladder to their superiors, including then-FBI Chief J Edgar Hoover.
But The Grayzone wants readers to believe that Israel’s minion Angleton ordered Oswald’s name off of watchlists just before the Kennedy visited Dallas, to enable the assassin to operate freely in Dallas. Morley has repeated this ugly canard from The Grayzone.
Agendas
The Kennedy assassination has long been a platform upon which partisans of every stripe mount their ethnic, political and ideological agendas and biases.
In general, the left-wingers have long sought to blame the US national security state, in league with capitalist-globalist cabals, for the murder—this version having been re-vivified of late by the MAGA-Moscow crowd, with an additional spin of Mossad collusion, most prominently touted by Tehran-friendly (and financed?) social influencers.
Right-wingers counter with narratives of KBG or Castro oversight, or devotion to the original “Lone Nut” definition of Oswald.
All told, the assassination theorists, like the event itself, are of a certain generation, aging and receding into the past.
Not content to exit the stage gracefully like more-sensible senior actors, evidently some assassination buffs want to disappear…by sinking into the mire.
Jeff Morley is disappearing from view.
