02-11-2016, 01:11 AM
As I've said before, I think that the people who killed JFK - certain military & intelligence people, with the aid of some Cuban exiles and mobsters - wanted a dramatic, shocking public execution, with the blame placed on Cuba and the KGB, to trigger a preemptive nuclear strike. This would force the public and the elite to accept a huge shift in US foreign policy (ala Pearl Harbor, 9/11)
Around the time Oswald was arrested, wrote FBI Agent James Hosty, "I learned after the assassination from two independent sources fully armed warplanes were sent screaming toward Cuba. Just before they entered Cuban airspace, they were hastily called back...the entire US military went on alert. The Pentagon ordered us to Defense Condition 3...Def Con 3..." (Hosty, Assignment Oswald p219)
Somebody in the Pentagon was certainly ready to get the war started before LBJ could even do anything about it, but apparently someone else was able to order the planes back.
7/20/1961 At a National Security Council Meeting, the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Gen. Lemnitzer and CIA director Allen Dulles present a plan for a preemptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union "in late 1963, preceded by a period of heightened tensions." President Kennedy walks out of the meeting, saying to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, "And we call ourselves the human race."
There was a concern among hawks that by 1964-65, the US would lose its overwhelming nuclear superiority, and its ability to launch a preemptive strike and win a nuclear war.
But it was the high-level elites who put the lid on all of that Seven Days in May plotting, and recast the patsy as a demented loner and covered the whole thing up to prevent a war and keep the US from looking like a banana republic.
Around the time Oswald was arrested, wrote FBI Agent James Hosty, "I learned after the assassination from two independent sources fully armed warplanes were sent screaming toward Cuba. Just before they entered Cuban airspace, they were hastily called back...the entire US military went on alert. The Pentagon ordered us to Defense Condition 3...Def Con 3..." (Hosty, Assignment Oswald p219)
Somebody in the Pentagon was certainly ready to get the war started before LBJ could even do anything about it, but apparently someone else was able to order the planes back.
7/20/1961 At a National Security Council Meeting, the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Gen. Lemnitzer and CIA director Allen Dulles present a plan for a preemptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union "in late 1963, preceded by a period of heightened tensions." President Kennedy walks out of the meeting, saying to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, "And we call ourselves the human race."
There was a concern among hawks that by 1964-65, the US would lose its overwhelming nuclear superiority, and its ability to launch a preemptive strike and win a nuclear war.
But it was the high-level elites who put the lid on all of that Seven Days in May plotting, and recast the patsy as a demented loner and covered the whole thing up to prevent a war and keep the US from looking like a banana republic.