Did G-2 Encourage LHO to Perp the JFKA?

[John Corbett]

It's easy to conjure up reasons any number of entities would have wanted JFK killed. What nobody has been able to conjure up is any real evidence any of them conspired with Oswald to do the deed.

[Benjamin Cole]

JC--

Say you lived in a town somewhere, and Mr. Smith was murdered.

The mayor says to the police chief, "Whatever you do, don't look into Mr. Jones. He is too important to the prosperity of the town."

Indeed, years later we would have little evidence that Mr. Jones murdered Mr. Smith.

That is what happened to the WC/FBI. They were told not to follow leads in Havana, and people lost their jobs for doing so.

Gus Russo is a serious JFKA scholar and no leftie. He says much what I say: There was no investigation into LHO connections to Havana.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Here is Russo (page 455) in his concluding chapter of "Live By the Sword" - note the uncertainties, "we can't be sure" et cetera.

Again, this is the main theme of his book: He thinks the covert war on Cuba played a role in Oswald's act. I.e., a type of "blowback". But he doesn't know how or how much. Did Oswald learn about the war on his own? Or was he told about it? By who? Pro-Castro people or Castro's agents? And what did they tell him? Again, he doesn't know. His argument is that the rumors or allegations of Oswald meeting with pro-Cuban figures (private citizens or agents) were never fully investigated. Maybe, he says, they would have found direct evidence of Cuban involvement (although he says Castro didn't directly order the assassination). Maybe not. Maybe it was Oswald on his own volition based on his own discoveries. It's all, as he says, "educated guesses."


 

[John Corbett]

JC--

Say you lived in a town somewhere, and Mr. Smith was murdered.

The mayor says to the police chief, "Whatever you do, don't look into Mr. Jones. He is too important to the prosperity of the town."

Indeed, years later we would have little evidence that Mr. Jones murdered Mr. Smith.

That is what happened to the WC/FBI. They were told not to follow leads in Havana, and people lost their jobs for doing so.

Gus Russo is a serious JFKA scholar and no leftie. He says much what I say: There was no investigation into LHO connections to Havana.

A rather humorous tale. The CTs have been looking for evidence that Mr. Jones was complicit in the assassination and have come up empty. Why would anyone believe Mr. Jones had anything to do with it. If we are going to simply assume Mr. Jones was involved, why stop there. Why not accuse, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Michaels, or Mr. Thomas. Oh, wait. The CTs have already done that. Never mind.

I was ready to assume Russo was just another CT huckster separating gullible CTs from their money but I decided to look into it. According to Wikipedia, Oswald acted on his own in retribution of JFK's policies toward Cuba. While nobody knows why Oswald decided to kill JFK, that seems as good an explanation as any. It wouldn't require Oswald to know anything that wasn't public knowledge. JFK did sign the trade embargo with Cuba, but only after Pierre Sallinger had scored 1200 Cuban Petite Upmann cigars.

[Benjamin Cole]

SMG-

Thanks for your comments.

To be sure, mere reporters and authors, without incarceration, investigative and subpoena powers, can only say for certain so much. Russo is careful to say what he has learned, and to not go beyond that.

Sure, a reporter can gently ask questions, peruse the public domain. 

But it remains that Al Haig, Win Scott and Thomas Mann (and State Dep't staffer Thomas) all thought somebody was behind LHO. I do too. Win Scott papers are a curious lacuna in the public record.

Moreover, it is beyond dispute that forma or government investigations into LHO-Havana connections were suffocated in 1963-4 by LBJ order, and that G2'ers have told Russo (and were filmed in his documentary) that other G2'ers triggered LHO.

Did G-2'ers physically assist LHO on 11.22?

As the SBT-LNT theory does not hold water, I think it is an open question.