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Global Research, June 25, 2020
The Future of Freedom Foundation 22 June 2020
One of the fascinating phenomena in the JFK assassination is the fear of some Americans to consider the possibility that the assassination was actually a regime-change operation
carried out by the U.S. national-security establishment rather than
simply a murder carried out by a supposed lone-nut assassin.The mountain of evidence that has surfaced, especially since the 1990s, when the JFK Records Act
mandated the release of top-secret assassination-related records within
the national-security establishment, has been in the nature of
circumstantial evidence, as compared to direct evidence.
Thus, I can
understand that someone who places little faith in the power of
circumstantial evidence might study and review that evidence and decide
to embrace the “lone-nut theory” of the case.
But many of
the people who have embraced the lone-nut theory have never spent any
time studying the evidence in the case and yet have embraced the
lone-nut theory. Why? My hunch is that the reason is that they have a
deep fear of being labeled a “conspiracy theorist,” which is the term
the CIA many years ago advised its assets in the mainstream press to
employ to discredit those who were questioning the official narrative in
the case.
Like many others, I have studied the evidence in the case. After doing that, I concluded that the circumstantial evidence pointing toward a regime-change operation has reached critical mass.
Based on that evidence, for me the Kennedy assassination is not a conspiracy theory but rather the fact of a national-security state regime-change operation,
no different in principle than other regime-change operations,
including through assassination, carried out by the U.S.
national-security establishment, especially through the CIA.
Interestingly,
there are those who have shown no reluctance to study the facts and
circumstances surrounding foreign regime-change operations carried out
by the CIA and the Pentagon. But when it comes
to the Kennedy assassination, they run for the hills, exclaiming that
they don’t want to be pulled down the “rabbit hole,” meaning that they
don’t want to take any chances of being labeled a “conspiracy theorist.”
For those who have never delved into the
Kennedy assassination but have interest in the matter, let me set forth
just a few of the reasons that the circumstantial evidence points to a
U.S. national-security state regime-change operation. Then, at the end
of this article, I’ll point out some books and videos for those who wish
to explore the matter more deeply.
I start out with a basic thesis: Lee Harvey
he was
an intelligence agent for the U.S. deep state. Now, that thesis
undoubtedly shocks people who have always believed in the lone-nut
theory of the assassination. They just cannot imagine that Oswald could
have really been working for the U.S. government at the time of the
assassination.
Yet, when
one examines the evidence in the case objectively, the lone-nut theory
doesn’t make any sense. The only thesis that is consistent with the
evidence and, well, common sense, is that Oswald was a U.S. intelligence
agent.
Ask yourself: How many communist Marines
have you ever encountered or even heard of? My hunch is none. Not one
single communist Marine. Why would a communist join the Marines?
Communists hate the U.S. Marine Corps. In fact, the U.S. Marine Corps
hates communists. It kills communists. It tortures them. It invades
communist countries. It bombs them. It destroys them.
What are the chances that the Marine
Corps would permit an openly avowed communist to serve in its ranks?
None! There is no such chance. And yet, here was Oswald, whose Marine
friends were calling “Oswaldovitch,” being assigned to the Atsugi naval
base in Japan, where the U.S. Air Force was basing its top-secret U-2
spy plane, one that it was using to secretly fly over the Soviet Union.
Why would the Navy and the Air Force permit a self-avowed communist even
near the U-2? Does that make any sense?
While Oswald was serving in the Marine
Corps, he became fluent in the Russian language. How is that possible?
How many people have you known who have become fluent in a foreign
language all on their own, especially when they have a full-time job?
Even if they are able to study a foreign language from books, they have
to practice conversing with people in that language to become proficient
in speaking it. How did Oswald do that? There is but one reasonable
possibility: Language lessons provided by U.S. military-suppled tutors.
After leaving the Marine Corps, Oswald
traveled to the Soviet Union, walked into the U.S. embassy, renounced
his citizenship, and stated that he intended to give any secrets he
learned while serving in the military to the Soviet Union. Later, when
he stated his desire to return to the United States, with a wife with
family connections to Soviet intelligence, Oswald was given the
red-carpet treatment on his return. No grand jury summons. No grand-jury
indictment. No FBI interrogation. No congressional summons to testify.
Remember: This was at the height of the
Cold War, when the U.S. national-security establishment was telling
Americans that there was a worldwide communist conspiracy based in
Moscow that was hell-bent on taking over the United States and the rest
of the world. The U.S. had gone to war in Korea because of the supposed
communist threat. They would do the same in Vietnam. They would target
Cuba and Fidel Castro with invasion and assassination. They would pull
off regime-change operations on both sides of the Kennedy assassination:
Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Cuba (1960s), Congo (1963), and Chile
(1973).
During the 1950s, they were targeting any
American who had had any connections to communism. They were
subpoenaing people to testify before Congress as to whether they had
ever been members of the Communist Party. They were destroying people’s
reputations and costing them their jobs. Remember the case of Dalton
Trumbo and other Hollywood writers who were criminally prosecuted and
incarcerated. Recall the Hollywood blacklist. Recall the Rosenbergs,
whom they executed for giving national-security state secrets to the
Soviets. Think about Jane Fonda.
Indeed, if you want a modern-day version
of how the U.S. national-security state treats suspected traitors and
betrayers of its secrets, reflect on Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and
Chelsea Manning. That’s how we expect national-security state officials
to behave toward those they consider traitors and betrayers of U.S.
secrets.
Not so with Oswald. With him, we have
what amounts to two separate parallel universes. One universe involves
all the Cold War hoopla against communists. Another one is the one in
which Oswald is sauntering across the world stage as one of America’s
biggest self-proclaimed communists — a U.S. Marine communist — who isn’t
touched by some congressional investigative committee, some federal
grand jury, or some FBI agent. How is that possible?
Later, when Oswald ended up in Dallas,
his friends were right-wingers, not left-wingers. He even got job at a
photographic facility that developed top-secret photographs for the U.S.
government. How is that possible? Later, when he ended up in New
Orleans, he got hired by a private company that was owned by a fierce
anti-communist right-winger. Why would he hire a supposed communist who
supposedly had betrayed America by supposedly joining up with America’s
avowed communist enemy, the Soviet Union, and to whom he had supposedly
given U.S. national-security state secrets, just like Julian and Ethel
Rosenberg had?
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Jacob G. Hornberger is
founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born
and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from
Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of
Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an
adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and
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