Impossible: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald (22 page)

Now, with a ready, willing, and able team of certain eager beaver academics salivating for the chance to get a grant to publish approved writings, and well over 1000 books consequently published with your “ready for prime-time” content, how do you make sure that the content of those books
makes
it to prime time? Well, if you control the media, you can make sure that those books are
reviewed
, and that the topics of those books also become
newsworthy
items. In this regard, it would be important to have a slew of media contacts, and with a secret program in place called
Operation Mockingbird
, the CIA had no shortage there (1 CCR 195):

The largest category of the above was “stringers” and “employees”, the vast majority of whom were well aware of their CIA relationships. That article by Tom Wicker, that story by James Reston, an
Op-Ed
piece in the
Times
by Errol Morris: a genuine piece, or was this a story planted and/or commissioned and/or approved by the CIA? I have no idea; do you? (1 CCR 196)

Of course, with all that false “information” floating around out there, you might think that this would have a negative impact on the ability of United States to construct an intelligent domestic and foreign policy. After all, for our policymakers, this false information would be as dangerous as false alarms on the screen of an air traffic controller. No need to worry though, the senior officials in charge were well aware of the subterfuge — well, at least
some
of the subterfuge (1 CCR 201):

Now, this may strike you as bizarre, but there are some people out there who don’t see a problem with actions of this nature, perhaps due to some dubious “national security” rationale that functions like a white blood cell of the mind to diffuse the implications of facts like these.

My advice to these people is to take a look at how far out that chain-link fence is from the center of your camp; the farther away from the center, the more you can call it “security”; the closer to the center, the more you should call it “prison wire.”

The Church Committee, like anyone else whose EEG had not flat-lined, was well aware of implication of the facts we have seen (1 CCR 179):

The bad news, as the Church Report noted, is that what we think has occurred is different from what can possibly occur, and as Murphy’s law tells us, anything that can go wrong will go wrong, so the question is, if there was a military coup d’état in America (unlikely though we wish that possibility to be), could any such coup possibly be stopped if the military would have control over how that coup was perceived? And if the CIA (or more precisely, one or more handfuls of highly placed officials in the CIA) was also behind a coup d’état, that would not be very good news, due to their control of the media.

That is why the following prediction in the
Times
that any coup d’état in the United States would be CIA-driven was particularly unwelcome, particularly since it appeared in an article in
The New York Times
on October 3, 1963, just six weeks before President Kennedy’s assassination!
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Now, folks, that is some wake-up call. Note that the source is a “very high official” in the federal government. What official would leak something as provocative as that to the
Times
without approval from President Kennedy himself?

Connect the dots: coup . . . CIA . . . media.

We need to follow this line a little further. Edward Luttwak, a professor at Georgetown University, told us in 1969 that Presidents could be put into power without the benefit of a general election (
Coup D’Etat,
p. ix):

Luttwak stated later in his book that an excellent public relations team would be just as effective in maintaining the public order as a legion of black-helmeted SWAT infantry equipped with pepper spray, rubber bullets, and tasers (
Coup D’Etat,
p. 173):

Seizing the control over the flow of information would be an absolutely critical tool to maintain power (
Coup D’Etat,
p. 117):

The media that would be best suited in this regard would be
mass
communications, particularly radio and television, which allows you to control the uncritical masses, who would rather watch
Blind Date
than read Luttwak’s
Coup D’Etat
;
Blind Date
, admittedly, is probably a lot more entertaining, but
Coup D’état
tells you where the cancer is, and thus gives you a means to fight it (
Coup D’Etat,
p. 174):

Not a touchy-feely guy, this Luttwak. Can’t believe what you’re reading? Well, since I can’t believe what I’m writing, I guess we’re on the same page. That, however, is the beauty of evidence; it gives you permission to think any thought naturally flowing from the evidence, including the formerly unthinkable ones.

Now, do we know, based on the information that has so far been presented, that the CIA (or, far more likely, a group of insiders who hijacked the CIA) was behind the assassination of President Kennedy? No, we do not.

We do know this though: if Oswald
was
the assassin of Kennedy, we
don’t
need to worry about that possibility. Conversely, if the evidence shows that Oswald was
not
the assassin of Kennedy, we
do
.