Larry Hancock Tips His Hat To KGB Suspects

[Lance Payette]

Who were LHO's most likely confederates?

It doesn't really fit any very popular or sexy conspiracy theory, but realistically his most likely confederate would have been Oswald Junior - some equally pro-Castro character he had met in the course of his travels and activities and to whom he could turn on or about 11-20 and say, "I'm gonna do it - are you with me?"

You keep mentioning Woolsey. We've gone down that road before, but I would bet Woolsey knew less about Oswald and the JFKA than you, I or most people on this forum.

[Benjamin Cole]

LP-

Woolsey: Yale Law grad, Rhodes Scholar, extensive career in and out the US foreign policy and national-security apparatus, and former CIA director.

You and me: JFKA hobbyists.

I am uncomfortable simply dismissing Woolsey's POV. I may suspect lower-level G2'ers, or even Alpha-66'ers, possibly double agents, rather than the formal KGB.

But that's IMHO.

[Tom Graves]

LP-

Woolsey: Yale Law grad, Rhodes Scholar, extensive career in and out the US foreign policy and national-security apparatus, and former CIA director.

You and me: JFKA hobbyists.

I am uncomfortable simply dismissing Woolsey's POV. I may suspect lower-level G2'ers, or even Alpha-66'ers, possibly double agents, rather than the formal KGB.

WHAT ABOUT THE IRANIANS?

[Benjamin Cole]

LP:

Add on:

You might be pointed in the right general direction with your musings that perhaps LHO had relatively local or small-fry accomplices in the JFKA. 

There is a lone eye-witness account of LHO being at the Alpha-66 house on Harlandale.

I accept the WC narrative that LHO took a potshot at General Walker (in April), but my take is LHO likely had a ride to the location, and used a 30.06 and WII military surplus steel-jacketed ammo, available at the time. After all, two DPD detectives and two patrolmen signed contemporary statements that they had found a steel-jacketed slug in the Walker home the night of the assassination, and some inscribed their initials into the slug as well. LHO had copper-jacketed slugs. That's a hard one to dance around.

Perhaps a couple Alpha-66'ers-G2'ers, Dallas-based, played a role in the Walker shooting, and then convinced LHO to go big on 11.22, as payback for the many assassination attempts on Castro perped by the Kennedy Administration.

There were connections between G2 and KGB, obviously.

Anyway, Woolsey wrote his book, and he is a serious fellow.

[Michael T. Griffith]

Certainly, in comparison to narratives that have somewhat become canon, that is the “CIA and/or Mossad did it,”

Ben, very few conspiracy theorists claim that the Mossad was involved. This is a rather recent claim that has come from radical leftist JFKA researchers. I know most of the JFKA community, and very of them posit a Mossad connection.

Also, many JFKA researchers believe the Mafia was involved. The evidence of Mafia involvement is stronger than the evidence of rogue CIA involvement.

the narrative that assets related to the KGB or G2 might have manipulated or helped LHO perp the JFKA have been less researched.

I think this is because the KGB angle simply makes no sense, due to the following facts: (1) JFK was making dramatic moves to improve relations with the Soviet Union, and (2) it is extremely hard to imagine that anyone in the KGB would have thought that the hawkish LBJ would be preferable to the detente-pursuing JFK.

The Cuban angle suffers from a similar lack of motive. Two facts: (1) As Castro himself told the HSCA, he would have had to be out of his mind to go within 10 miles of any plot to kill JFK because this would have given the U.S. Government the perfect excuse to invade Cuba. (2) JFK was in the process of reaching out to Castro to improve relations when the assassination occurred.

Did fanatical rogue elements of the KGB and G2 (1) get wind of the plot and do what they could to help it, or, (2) initiate the plot themselves without the knowledge of their respective governments? I would not dismiss that idea out of hand. It's not wild or illogical. But, I think the evidence of Mafia and rogue CIA involvement is much stronger than the evidence of KGB and/or G2 involvement.

[Benjamin Cole]

MTG--

Well, we are on different pages on this one.

Surely, there were zealots galore in the Cuban exile community, and also in G2, in the highly nationalist and ideological 1960s. Many had actually served in combat, BoP and so on.

The record shows JFK tried to have Castro assassinated many times, and Castro knew it, and Castro also publicly stated (in Sept 1963) that assassinations could go both ways.

Elements within Cuba, or G2, or G2 assets stateside could have perped the JFKA.

As for nations acting rationally...why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor? Why did Germany go into Russia? Why has Russia persisted in a ghastly and catastrophic fool's mission in Ukraine?

Why did the US occupy Afghanistan for 20 years? Why did JFK have the Diems eliminated, thus further destabilizing SV?

I can't rule out the Mob, or elements attached to the national security state, perped the JFKA.

But...I lean to a small plot involving G2'ers of Alpha-66'ers. Just IMHO.