Kelly's Response to Powers' Review of Morley's "Ghost"
AND ANOTHER THING:
Along with David Martin ("Wilderness of Mirrors"),
David Wise ("Mole hunt"), Thomas Ross, with Wise ("The Invisible
Government"), John Marks and Victor Marchetti ("The CIA and the Cult
of Intelligence") and a few other journalists, Thomas Powers knows more
about espionage and the history of the Cold War than many spies.
But as a 30 year veteran of the Council of Foreign
Relations, he fails to tackle the assassination of the President - the ultimate
mystery of our times - because he is an apologist for the same system that was
responsible for the murder of the President.
The "intelligence community" still wants to
protect its "sources and methods" (what Allen Dulles called the
"craft of intelligence") - which are technically neutral and used by
every intelligence agency and network since the days of Sun Tzu and the Art of
War in China thousands of years ago. But it's too late, since these "sources and methods" have already
been exposed, and counter-intelligence techniques are being properly applied to
analysis of the assassination, as they should have been from the start.
Now that the "Wilderness of Mirrors" has been well
documented and mapped out,
In his review of Jefferson Morley’s biography of James Jesus
Angleton “Ghost,” Powers resorts to attacking Morley personally rather than
wrestling with the evidence, something we can and must do.
Powers says Morley shouldn't be taken seriously and
criticizes him for providing an uneven profile of Angleton - the CIA's chief of
Counter Intelligence (CI) during whose watch the assassination occurred.
But it is Angleton who provided the CI tools and trade
craft, the means and methods needed to understand what actually occurred at
Dealey Plaza.
Morley and Powers both tell us about Angleton's
"Monster Plot" - an obsessive fear that the Soviets penetrated the
CIA at its highest levels - as they did the British, West German and French
intelligence agencies. Crucial to the
analysis are the alleged fake defectors who were muddying the waters -
especially Anatoly Golitsyn, Yuri Nosenko and Lee Oswald, the accused assassin
of the President.
Were they real or fake defectors? Thanks to the recent
release of records we have the tapes and transcripts of Nosenko's interrogation,
and the five CIA studies of Nosenko, one of which weighed the cost benefits of
the information he gave up, and concluded he was a legitimate defector because
of the value of the information. Other
knowledgeable researchers familiar with Nosenko's complete file are convinced
that he lied and was a false defector.
And what about Golitsyn and Oswald? They are players in the
"Monster Plot" we have yet to decipher.
Powers accuses Morley of being "strangely indifferent
to the 'Monster Plot' story that engulfed Angleton - a plot that he says
includes the JFK assassination," which Powers sees as "notoriously
tricky" to tackle.
Powers contends that Morley is strangely indifferent to
Angleton's "Monster Plot," and that Angleton's bugbear is somehow
connected to the assassination of the President. But Powers never elucidates that
connection.
It was JFK himself who nominated Michael Straight to head
the National Federation of the Arts, which sparked an FBI background
investigation of Straight, which discovered that he had attended Cambridge with
Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald MacLean and others who were recruited to be
Soviet spies before going undercover in the British government. Straight
confessed to being approached for recruitment by Philby but declined Philby's
overture, despite Straight's communist sympathies.
Philby tipped off Burgess and MacLean before they could be
arrested, so they had already made it safely to Moscow. And Philby was warned
of Straight's confession by MI6 officer Nicholas Elliott and permitted to
escape to Moscow. Nicholas Elliot was a close personal friend and MI6 associate
of NANA's Ian Fleming and his brother Peter Fleming. Elliot was sent to Beirut,
Lebanon to confront Philby, and give him the opportunity to get while the
getting was good.
But the damage was done, since Philby was the MI6 liaison to
the CIA and already knew all the secrets. In fact, it was Philby who taught
Angleton many of the CI crafts of intelligence during WWII. Philby and Angleton later had three-martini
lunches in Washington, which eventually led CIA analyst Clare Petty to suggest
that Angleton himself was the Soviet mole.
As former FBI agent William Turner has said, we know that
the assassination of the President was originally devised as a CIA plan to kill
Fidel Castro and was diverted to kill JFK at Dealey Plaza. It was a carefully
devised Plan, not a plot, a plan that included a black propaganda
disinformation deception to blame the murder of Fidel Castro, an aspect of the
plan that failed.
Those who say one man alone did it for his own unknowable irrational motives have solved the case in their minds, to their own satisfaction. Those
of us who believe there's more to the story, however, can look upon all of the evidence as
part of a covert intelligence operation, and utilize the CI tools at our
disposal to analyze it.
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