John Barbour: Averill Harriman ordered the assassination

[Peter Lemkin]

I manged to ignore the Trump/right-wing cheer leading to listen to this. Here's what stood out to me:

Barbour apparently has something like 67 (don't remember the exact number) boxes of Garrison files that supposedly contain many details of the actual plot but that just prior to that announcement he said that the CIA is refusing to release those files. If that's so then how did he get them? From Garrison? If so, can he just release them himself? Would he be in legal jeopardy if he did so? And if that's true isn't he in jeopardy right now for possessing them? And how did the CIA get Garrison's files in the first place?

The claim about Harriman is intriguing but even Garrison admitted it was speculation and he had no actual proof. This is exactly the kind of thing that the MSM and establishment scholars jump on and use to discredit all assassination research. I'll give Barbour some leeway since he's more of an entertainer than a researcher but I think that there's enough provable evidence to discredit the WC and therefore make a conspiracy the only realistic explanation that venturing into speculation like this does more harm than good.

Same thing with the alleged GHWB photo. I don't know why anyone obsesses over this stuff. Could it be Bush? Yes, but there's at least an equal (or more likely a more than equal) probability that its not. And there's no way to prove either case. Furthermore, even if it is Bush does that mean he was involved in the plot or the "mastermind"? Of course not. Yes, I know there's other circumstantial evidence linking Bush to the CIA and the BOP (both of which I find completely credible) and there's also the issue of him not recalling his whereabouts on 11/22/1963 and trying to implicate some innocent guy. However, none of that proves anything about his alleged involvement in the actual assassination plot. He could have just been disseminating disinformation like other CIA assets. And finally, if he actually were involved in the plot why in the world would he want to be anywhere near Dealey Plaza that day? That kind of reads like one of the dumb criminal stories on Cops.

Especially in the beginning of his investigation, but throughout it, Garrison's 'team' was infiltrated by CIA goons left, right and center. At times they all but outnumbered non-Company persons on his staff. It is amazing he accomplished as much as he did, given this fact. He gave some files or copies of files to several persons. I don't know about Barbour specifically, but having Garrison files is legal and one can do anything one wants with them. If Garrison were alive today he'd be very pleased to see the progress made since his investigation, but he did have the basic story and M.O. down, IMO. Some new facts, some new names, some new information has come out since he died - but very very little he stated as his premise of what, who, how has turned out to be wrong in any fundamental way. That is why they had to destroy him......he was on the right track! Only one of Garrison's team to my knowledge is still alive and I have his contact. I'll email him and see what he knows about how and what Barbour might have. By the way, this person I allude to has some files too....although not too much nor anything dynamite. Joan Mellon was quite close to Garrison and her book in him is IMO one of the best and from the horse's mouth.