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JFK files expose family secrets: Their relatives were CIA assets
- hank808 1y agoAnyone have a gift URL or similar?
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- DueDilligence 1y ago[dead]
- timewizard 1y ago> The Trump administration’s release of more than 77,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has thus far shed little new light on the killing We never expected it to. It has shed much new light on the conspiracy to cover up the crime. It also highlighted how an intelligence agency with no oversight was allowed to continually and constantly break the law and ignore the constitution. A great story, but sadly, one the main stream media is just not interested in. For some reason. > Some families are learning for the first time how parents, grandfathers or spouses participated in American spycraft The CIA actively looked for American businessmen who could be useful to their operations. They called the "Clandestine Contact Service." It's about the lowest level of "participation" you can have in "spycraft." > “confident that Oswald was at no time an agent controlled by the KGB. From the description of Oswald in the files he doubted that anyone could control Oswald.” They just wont give up the cover up. Here we are 60 years after the _murder_ of an elected President and we're still playing these games. Ridiculous. If you accept this as true then you have to accept the United States Secret Service was criminally incompetent in failing to stop a single "lone nut." > He was a patriot, Dorothy said, and probably saw his work for U.S. intelligence officials as a way to help his country. ...and then: > As a child during the early 1960s, his dad would leave for Vietnam and the family wouldn’t hear from him for a month or two. There was nothing patriotic about the war in Vietnam. This whole article is revisionist deep state jingoist propaganda.
- etchalon 1y agoThe neat part about conspiracy theories is they're always unfalsifiable.
- timewizard 1y agoThey are completely falsifiable. You would just need to have the intelligence agencies actually cooperate with the investigation and release all their information on it. We know for a fact they didn't do that. They intentionally obstructed several investigations. They knowingly lied to congress. They destroyed records they were ordered to preserve. These facts are all part of the released documents and they're all plain as day. They tried to keep this all locked up until 2060 for a reason. At the very least we can retrospectively look at the actions of CIA, FBI and USSS and see their corruption. That they've never been held responsible is unconscionable. I'm glad you're somehow capable of defending them with this lazy nonsense.
- Almondsetat 1y agoEvery piece of evidence an intelligence agency produces you can always claim to be manufactured or altered, so no, it's unfalsifiable
- mardifoufs 1y agoI don't think anyone is claiming the CIA documents that were released recently were fake so I don't think that's the case. In fact, a lot of people, even the conspiracy types, give documents from intelligence agencies a lot of weight. They just don't trust random press releases or official public statements.
- etchalon 1y agoThe intelligence agencies have said Oswald acted alone. Multiple times. Across nearly 5 decades now. Conspiracy theorists give weight to anything which confirms their worldview, and dismiss anything that does not. It is an unfalsifiable belief system.
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- ChrisArchitect 1y agoArticle from March. A recent Ask HN: Did someone dig into the JFK files? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43803060
- yieldcrv 1y agoany who has worked in DC would find this to be not that interesting "Hey by the way your 2nd cousin worked for the CIA" like, and?
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- xhkkffbf 1y agoThat sure is a long list of people at the end of the article who "contributed." Yet, there are only a few first person anecdotes that make up the spine of the article. Odd.
- bamboozled 1y agoSo there was good reason why the files weren’t released earlier and much of the released content had redacted sections ? Can we move on now ?
- dyauspitr 1y agoAmericans were CIA assets. Yawn.
- raincom 1y agoMovies portray spies as some special operations people. However, most of the academics in humanities are potential spies: they gather intelligence by offering fellowships, scholarships and grants to people from abroad to stay at hosting institutions' "Depart of Government", "Center for Peace", "Department of Political Sciences", "Department of Asian studies", "Center for conflict resolution". The targets are usually other Ph.Ds and others who are connected to the elite in the target countries.
- raincom 1y ago“The file also reflected that Oswald was a poor shot when he tried target firing in the U.S.S.R.” How is it possible for Oswald to become a sharp shooter, then?
- drewbitt 1y agoPractice, but you may prefer the 'telekinesis' theory.
- raincom 1y agoI don't believe in telepathy, telekinesis, etc. I think, Oswald was not the shooter.
- bni 1y agoDo you believe Oswald brought curtain rods to work that day? Also how come his rifle, that he had mail-ordered, was found in the building he worked in right after?
- raincom 1y agoI won't dispute the veracity of the fact that he mail-ordered a rifle, and the fact that he kept his rifle there. What is it evidence for? Did he really shoot JFK? Was he really a sharp shooter? One can answer that Oswald got lucky with his target. This, I am not buying.
- bni 1y agoWhy does that matter? Target moving away from you is an easy shot. If you go to the Plaza you will experience how small the place really is. The difficulty of the shot has been exaggerated by conspiracy book and filmmakers.