Can We Agree?

[Lauren Johnson]

It always seemed clear to me.


How can a government say a guy is a "Lone Nut," with no particular ties to anyone, and then feel compelled to classify as "secret" or "top secret" more than a hundred thousand pages of documents potentially referring to him?


How can someone who allegedly served in a U-2 radar installation "defect" to the U.S.S.R., tell our guy in Moscow he's going to tell the Russkies everything he knows, return home without punishment, and then, just a few years later, be given permission to defect again?


The cover story is preposterous, and smacks of intel operations.


When I talk with normal people about this, I'm surprised how many say something like, "Oh, that obviously was a government hit."

Jim, your exact question has been addressed extensively here at DPF. In fact, it has to do with why Deep Politics Forum is named as such. When I get a chance I will dig up some of this discussion and maybe it will shed some light. But briefly, the terms "the government," "the CIA," "the military/industrial complex," and so forth are in themselves very problematic.

I think the best analytical tool for working with this issue, although it was used endlessly to beat people over the head, was the Evica/Drago Model. Some liked it and some did not, but it helped me to appreciate the complexity of the JFK murder.

At any rate, your question certainly deserves another airing.