J Kenneth McDonald Discusses His Work at CIA

[Benjamin Cole]

https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/cia-in-the-early-postwar-period/57851

McDonald sure seems to know his stuff.

Some say McDonald made an inexplicable, incredible blunder, when he defined Clay Shaw as a "highly paid contract source."

Well, maybe so.

Maybe Billy Barty played center for the Harlem Globetrotters. Maybe Jackie Gleason gave up acting to become a jockey at the race track. Maybe Donald Trump spends his evening reading Shakespeare.

[Tom Graves]

https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/cia-in-the-early-postwar-period/57851

McDonald sure seems to know his stuff.

Some say McDonald made an inexplicable, incredible blunder, when he defined Clay Shaw as a "highly paid contract source."

Well, maybe so.

Maybe Billy Barty played center for the Harlem Globetrotters. Maybe Jackie Gleason gave up acting to become a jockey at the race track. Maybe Donald Trump spends his evening reading Shakespeare.

Give it up, dude.

David Robarge, CIA's official historian, is hot you-know-what, too.

Except for the fact that he thinks Yuri Nosenko was a true defector-in-place in Geneva in June 1962 and a true physical defector to the U.S. in February 1964.

Please find one example where someone in the CIA (other than bonehead J. Kenneth or his bonehead staff in the document at issue) used the expression "contract source."

GROK searched 10 to 12 million pages and drew a blank, but I'm sure you'll come up with several.

(LOL)

[Benjamin Cole]

TG--

McDonald used the term "contract source" rather than "contract agent."

Big deal.

You (and FL) are shooting in the dark on a foggy night with a pop-gun, and upon not hitting anything, you declare, "There ain't nothing out there."

Shaw worked for the CIA, and was highly paid. Get over it. Shaw was a source of information, but likely not an agent, involved in any type of operations.

So it goes. IMHO, does not change the complexion of the JFKA much.