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I'm not a conspiracy theorist but the idea he was assassinated by the CIA isn't out of the realm of believability. They had the ability to do it and probably g

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but the idea he was assassinated by the CIA isn't out of the realm of believability. They had the ability to do it and probably get away with it, and they had motive: self preservation.

atdrummond 4y ago
I think it’s as likely as him being killed right before he reigned in the Federal Reserve with Executive Order 11110. That is, not very likely. It sounds attractive on paper but neither theory has anything more that extremely tenuous circumstantial evidence to support the claim.
- recursivedoubts 4y ago
  Just before Kennedy was killed he fired a man named Allen Dulles, then head of the CIA. Dulles, as would make sense given that he was just fired by the man, was then put in charge of the investigation of who killed Kennedy. There's an airport named after Dulles in DC. Which is funny: he never came up when I was taught history in school.
  - frumper 4y ago
    It's named after a different Dulles.
    - recursivedoubts 4y ago
      doh, his brother...
RichardCA 4y ago
It's possible for both things to be true, that Oswald did it and the CIA still had to perform a massive cover-up (for institutional self-preservation, as you pointed out). If you view Oswald as a "Wannabee" who tried to ingratiate himself into the intelligence community and failed (because he was a loser and also mentally unbalanced), you can apply Occam's Razor and come up with a plausible way to explain the CIA's odd behavior as pure bureaucratic CYA. And when you add in how scared both the US and Soviet intelligence communities were after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the picture that comes into focus is just a banal story of a loser who got ridiculously lucky in carrying out his true motivation, to throw a big fat middle finger at the CIA.
- singularity2001 4y ago
  De Mohrenschildt was Oswalds CIA handler and was suicided after his final letter to his college contact George Bush. He was even intimately connected to JFKs wife and family: https://youtu.be/2KR0oU6TNuQ https://youtu.be/2KR0oU6TNuQ

atdrummond 4y ago

I think it’s as likely as him being killed right before he reigned in the Federal Reserve with Executive Order 11110. That is, not very likely. It sounds attractive on paper but neither theory has anything more that extremely tenuous circumstantial evidence to support the claim.

recursivedoubts 4y ago
Just before Kennedy was killed he fired a man named Allen Dulles, then head of the CIA. Dulles, as would make sense given that he was just fired by the man, was then put in charge of the investigation of who killed Kennedy. There's an airport named after Dulles in DC. Which is funny: he never came up when I was taught history in school.
- frumper 4y ago
  It's named after a different Dulles.
  - recursivedoubts 4y ago
    doh, his brother...

RichardCA 4y ago

It's possible for both things to be true, that Oswald did it and the CIA still had to perform a massive cover-up (for institutional self-preservation, as you pointed out). If you view Oswald as a "Wannabee" who tried to ingratiate himself into the intelligence community and failed (because he was a loser and also mentally unbalanced), you can apply Occam's Razor and come up with a plausible way to explain the CIA's odd behavior as pure bureaucratic CYA. And when you add in how scared both the US and Soviet intelligence communities were after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the picture that comes into focus is just a banal story of a loser who got ridiculously lucky in carrying out his true motivation, to throw a big fat middle finger at the CIA.

singularity2001 4y ago
De Mohrenschildt was Oswalds CIA handler and was suicided after his final letter to his college contact George Bush. He was even intimately connected to JFKs wife and family: https://youtu.be/2KR0oU6TNuQ https://youtu.be/2KR0oU6TNuQ