The Covert Crack in
the Dealey Plaza Operation -
The Black Prop Op
that Failed – Exposing JFK’s Killers
Black Propaganda
Operations at Dealey Plaza
By William E. Kelly,
Jr.
Even at this late
date we still may not be able to say with certainty who killed President
Kennedy, but it can be demonstrated how he was killed.
It can still be
determined if the assassination of JFK was the work of a deranged lone nut, as
the official record contends, or was a very sophisticated covert intelligence
operation that utilized black propaganda and disinformation, framed a patsy and
permitted those responsible for the crime to get away with murder, as such
covert operations are designed to do.
Since all of the evidence
that implicates Lee Harvey Oswald as the accused assassin is questionable and
would have never been admitted into a court of law, and he was murdered while
in police custody, a strong case can be made that he was framed as a patsy, as
he himself claimed.
Even if Oswald was
the lone sniper who killed the president, wounded governor John Connally, and
killed Dallas policeman as an assassin and spree killer, his criminal personality
profile fits the Covert Operational Personality (COP) that indicates his motive
was political and not psychological, that he was operating as part of a covert intelligence
network on a standard need-to-know basis and was a pawn in a much bigger game.
If what happened at
Dealey Plaza is viewed, as Bill Simpich suggests, not as the spontaneous work
of a lone nut, but as well planned and successfully executed covert
intelligence operation, it all begins to make sense and comes into a clear and
understandable focus. The murder of the
president was not the result of a plot so much as it was a plan – a very
detailed and executed plan that was prepared in advance by perpetrators within
the government itself and continues today to shield those responsible. As an
intelligence “operation” it was a “Coup d’etat” that is still in effect and
continues to shield those responsible, even though most of them are dead.
It is not the perpetrators
who are now being shielded by the government today, but the MO – the Modus
Operandi that they utilized that is being kept secret, because it is the way
they continue to manipulate events today.
While the Dealey
Plaza operation was successful in killing the president and shielding those
responsible from justice, it failed to sell its cover story – that Fidel Castro
was behind the operational conspiracy, a failure that led the FBI, the Warren
Commission and other branches of government to adopt, as Peter Dale Scott
classifies it as the “Phase Two” lone-nut scenario as a plausible alternative
to the truth.
Professors Peter Dale
Scott and John Newman and attorney Dan Hardway have all recently called
attention to the significance of what Scott calls the “managed Oswald stories,”
– the “Phase One” black propaganda and disinformation campaign to blame what
happened at Dealey Plaza on Fidel Castro – a clearly defined intelligence
operation that continues today.
Because that part of
the operational plan – the original cover story failed, it provides a window into the intelligence
network responsible for the assassination because those involved in promoting
the black propaganda disinformation campaign that Castro was behind the Dealey
Plaza operation were certainly close to those who actually carried out the
operation.
This is a subject
that others have also written about – Mathew Smith wrote a book “The Second Plot” dedicated to the
subject, but I will limit the discussion at first to only to what Scott, Newman
and Hardway have recently had to say on the subject, and how it gives new leads
and direction to future inquires.
As we have learned
from the study of planets, it is often not as you see them, but more as you see
their reflections as viewed as blinking eclipses that tell you they are there,
just as we can see the reality of what happened at Dealey Plaza as a reflection
in Alices’s “Looking Glass” and what happens when you descend into the rabbit’s
hole of intentionally deceptive covert intelligence operations, especially
those that are successful.
TWO CONSPIRACIES – The Murder and the
Cover-Up
There are two documented conspiracies associated with the assassination of
President Kennedy – the first was the arrangement of his murder, the second
concerns the cover-up and thwarting of justice. The second conspiracy continues
today, so it should concern us all.
The evidence in both cases is in the form of fingerprints – as Senator Richard
Schweiker (R. Pa) put it - the distinct fingerprints of intelligence techniques at work. Evidence of
the first conspiracy comes in the form of foreknowledge - individuals who had
knowledge of the assassination before it occurred and expressed this knowledge
to others.
Sun Tzu, the fifth century Chinese philosopher and author of the classic manual
“The Art of War” said that
foreknowledge “cannot be elicited by spirits or obtained by magic” but rather
can only be acquired from an operational network of spies. “Foreknowledge,” he
said, “is the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the
enemy whenever they move.”
Such
foreknowledge is obtained by what Sun Tzu called the “Divine Skein,” a skein
being a net, like a fisherman’s net that pulls in information, a network of
spies, an intelligence network.
Proof of the second conspiracy – evidence of the cover-story stems from the
fact that black propaganda operations were utilized before the assassination,
and continue to operate today to maintain security and protect those
responsible for the first conspiracy. This very distinct and descriptive black
propaganda disinformation operation attempts, but fails to blame the Dealey
Plaza operation on Fidel Castro of Cuba.
That people had foreknowledge of the assassination before it occurred and black
propaganda operations were conducted in concert with the murder are clearly
established facts that would not exist at all if the murder was the work of a
lone nut case, and indicates that the assassination was carried out by trained
covert intelligence operatives and not by a loner or the Mafia. This does not
preclude however, members of organized crime or crazy people from being
involved in the operation.
That Fidel Castro was behind the assassination is clearly defined
disinformation and part of the deception plan - the pre-prepared “cover story”
that shields those actually responsible for the President’s murder. Over a
dozen incidents, most if not all of which can be traced back to the same
source, attempt to portray the assassination as the work of Castro or his G2.
Tracing the deceptive disinformation back to its source should also give us the
source of the operation that resulted in what happened at Dealey Plaza. Since
disinformation, propaganda and psychological warfare operations utilize
explicit techniques, they can be identified, isolated and studied as to their
content, intention and source, and thus provide a window into the nest of the
responsible network.
BLACK PROP OPS
According to Ladislas Farago “Black
Propaganda is a fundamental intelligence operation…because it never identifies
its real source and pretends to originate within or close to the enemy.”
Paul Linebarger, a professor at the School for Advanced International Studies
at John Hopkins University, also taught the black arts of propaganda and
psychological warfare operations at his Washington D.C. home. Every Friday
evening student spys would take round-a-bout means to unobtrusively get to his
house where they learned the secret techniques of propaganda and deception.
Not a
subject found in the curriculum of most colleges, the textbook is rare,
Linebarger’s “Psychological Warfare –
International Propaganda and Communications” (Arno Press, 1948, 1952, 1972,
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, N.Y.) is a still used by today’s psychological warriors.
One of his students, Joseph Burkholder Smith (“Portrait of a Cold Warrior” G. Putnam/s Sons, N.Y., 1976), relates
how Linebarger explained that Black Propaganda is “carefully labeled to be acts
of the enemy.” According to Linebarger, “Psychological warfare, in the broad
sense, consists of the application of parts of the science called psychology to
the conduct of war; psychological warfare comprises the use of propaganda
against the enemy, together with such military operational measures as may
supplement the propaganda. Propaganda may be described in turn, as organized
persuasion by non-violent means. War itself may be considered to be, among
other things, a violent form of persuasion. War is waged against the minds, not
the bodies of the enemy.”
The term propaganda stems from the name of the department of the Vatican which
had the duty of propagating the faith. Specifically defined, propaganda
consists of “the planned use of any form
of public or mass produced communication designed to affect the minds and
emotions of a given group for a specific public purpose, whether military,
economic or political. Military propaganda consists of the planned use of any
form of communications designed to affect the minds and emotions of a given
enemy, neutral or friendly foreign group for a specific strategic or tactical
purpose.”
Note that if the communication is not planned, it cannot be called propaganda,
and that if does not originate from an intelligence agency or service, it is
not disinformation.
Linebarger developed the STASM formula for spot analysis, in which propaganda
can be distinguished by the consideration of five elements – 1) Source, 2)
Time, 3) Audience, 4) Subject, 5) Mission. According to Linebarger, this
formula works best in the treatment of monitored materials of which the source
is known. First point to note is the character of the source – the true source
(who really got it out?), the ostensible source (whose name is signed to it?);
also the first use source (who used it the first time?) and the second source
(who claims merely to be using it as a quotation?).
It is soon evident that the mere attribution of source is a job of high
magnitude. A systematic breakdown of the STASM formula produces the following
analysis outline: applicable to any single propaganda item, civil or military,
in war or peace, spoken, visual or printed. There are five kinds of propaganda:
Defense – maintains an accepted form of social action; Offensive – interrupts
social action not desired; Conversionary – change allegiance; Divisive – split
apart enemy components; Consolidation – insure compliance of occupied
civilians; Counterpropaganda – refutes. Security is designed to deep useful
information from reaching the enemy, while propaganda operations are designed
to get information to him.
According to Smith, “Linebarger’s two leading operational heroes whose
activities formed the basis for lessons he wished us to learn and whose
examples he thought we should follow were Lt. Col. Edward G. Lansdale and E.
Howard Hunt,” who had what Linebarger called “black minds.”
Besides his own textbook, Linebarger used another book in his classes, - “The Big Con” by David W. Maurer (Pocket
Books, N.Y., 1949), which is the story used as the basis for the screenplay of
the movie “The Sting.”
Maurer,
a Kentucky linguistics professor, began to study the unique slang of confidence
men, but developed that interest into a unique analysis of the Big Con
confidence games that proliferated during the early part of the last century. That
book, “gives ideas on how to recruit agents, how to handle them and how to get
rid of them peacefully when they’re no use to you any longer.” As Linebarger
concluded, “Believe me, that last one is the toughest job of all,” as David A.
Phillips learned with Antonio Vechina.
“The big time confidence games are in reality, only carefully rehearsed plays
in which every member of the cast EXCEPT THE MARK knows his part perfectly,”
wrote Maurer.
According to Linebarger, “Propaganda is directed to the subtle niceties of
thought by which people maintain their personal orientation in an unstable
interpersonal world. Propaganda must use the language of the mother, the
schoolteacher, the lover, the bully, the policeman, the actor, the
ecclesiastic, the buddy, the newspaperman, all of them in turn. And propaganda
analysis, in weighing and evaluating propaganda, must be even more
discriminating whether the propaganda is apt to hit its mark or not.”
Those
who pre-planned the Dealey Plaza operation to kill President Kennedy assumed
that the assassination would be considered a conspiracy and intentionally
deflected the attention of the law enforcement and public opinion using black
propaganda techniques to implicate a Fidel Castro and Communists in the
operation, and shield the identity of the actual sponsors.
PETER DALE SCOTT – The
Deeper Truth Still Not Revealed
Peter Dale Scott in Deep Politics 3 [excerpted in the CAPA
Newsletter Vol. 1 #1] writes about what he calls the “Managed Oswald Stories.”
“In the days after the murders in Dallas,” Scott writes, “ the U.S. was flooded
with dubious stories, most of them swiftly discredited, linking Oswald to
either a Cuban or Soviet conspiracy. Those which most preoccupied the FBI and
CIA all came out of Mexico. These stories exhibited certain common
characteristics. 1. They all came from either directly from an intelligence
source, or from someone in the hands of an intelligence agency. Nearly always
the agency involved was the Mexican DFS or secret police. The DFS, along with
the Nicaraguan intelligence service, which was also a source, were under CIA
tutelage.”
“2 The Stories changed over time, to support either a pro-conspiratorial
hypothesis (‘Phase One’) or a rebuttal of this (“’Phase Two’).”
“3. The Warren Commission was led to believe that the ‘Phase One’ stories were
without basis. In fact a number of unresolved anomalies suggest that
behind them was some deeper truth, still not revealed.”
“4. As noted the two main sources, Silvia Duran and Gilberto Alvarado, gave
varying stories while detained by the DFS. Of the two, Duran was actually
tortured, and Alvarado reportedly threatened with torture... In retrospect, these stories should not have
been taken seriously. In fact the CIA was able to rely on them, not as a source
of truth, but as a source of coercive influence over the rest of the
government. It will help us to understand what was going on if we refer to
the stories, not as 'information' or even as 'allegations,' but as MANAGED
STORIES. To say this leaves open the question of who were the ultimate managers
– the DFS, U.S. Officers in Mexico, or higher authorities in Washington.”
“The full history is complex and confused, with many unanswered questions. But
nearly all of these managed stories, along with others outside
Mexico.....resolve into this simple pattern of a Phase One/Phase Two evolution.
To this day both 'Phase-One' and 'Phase-Two' versions are trotted out from time
to time. These control public perceptions of the Kennedy assassination seize
the debate from genuine critics who have less access to the media.”
“I do wish to argue that these managed stories, fleeting and
insubstantial though they are, were of central importance in determining the
outcome of the Kennedy assassination investigation. In succeeding
years, furthermore, the discredited ‘Phase-One’ stories have been revived to
manipulate public opinion, even after the CIA and FBI had agreed on a
‘Phase-Two’ interpretation of Oswald's movements in Mexico City. In 2013, for
example, the discredited Garro story of the twist party was revived in a
mainstream book by Philip Shenon. [Philip Shenon, A Cruel and Shocking
Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination (New York: Henry
Hold and Company, 2013), 496-98 etc.].”
“David Phillips is
the one man who seems to cover all aspects of the CIA - Oswald operation and
cover-up in 1963. David Phillips even had one friend, Gordon McLendon, in
common with Jack Ruby. McLendon, a sometimes intelligence officer and Dallas
owner of radio stations, had known Phillips since both men were in their teens.
(The two men would in the 1970s join in forming the Association of Former
Intelligence Officers.). McLendon was close to two other wealthy men in Dallas
who have attracted the attention of JFK researchers, Clint Murchison and
Bedford Wynne. What is not yet known is why McLendon, whom Ruby described as
one of his six closest friends, embarked on a sudden and surprising trip with
his family to Mexico City in the fall of 1963. …”
“Those of us who genuinely wish to see overt, rational forces prevail in the
world must reject a superficial and spurious defense of our institutions. The
ideal embraced by our society, that it be based on truth and openness, is not a
cynical cliché, but a real condition for our institutional health. The pursuit
of leads hinted at in this essay may seem frustratingly difficult, esoteric,
and above all slow. But to abandon this pursuit is to break faith with the
American dream of enlightenment itself.”
To abandon this
pursuit is to break faith with the American dream of enlightenment itself.
JOHN NEWMAN – Where
Angels Tread Lightly
John Newman in Where
Angels Tread Lightly [Excerpted in the CAPA Newsletter Vol. 1 #1]
writes, “In this investigation…we are attempting to look inside a very dark
box. The people involved in the design of the plot, even if they were only a
few, were very sophisticated in propaganda and deception operations.”
Newman continues: “In
his book, The Craft of Intelligence [Allen W. Dulles, Craft
of Intelligence: America’s
Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free
World (Guilford, Connecticut: The Lyons Press, 2006), p. 147.], former
Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles wrote about the ‘collateral
effect’ of a successful deception operation. Dulles often used the term ‘black
operation,’ which is similar to the term used in this volume, ‘dark
operation.’”
“Dulles explained the ‘collateral effect’ this way: once a single piece’ of the
enemy’s deception has succeeded in its purpose, then almost anything that
happens can be taken as one of his tricks. The point that Dulles was driving at
was this: ‘Often the very fear of deception has blinded an opponent to the real
value of the information which accidents or intelligence operations have placed
in his hands.’ …It is worthwhile pondering how Dulles’ point might apply to the
Kennedy assassination. As stated in the Introduction to this work, in this case
a very significant “single piece” of deception succeeded in its purpose….”
“The plot to assassinate President Kennedy was designed to deceive both people
in the government and the public at large. A convincing trail of evidence was
established to make it appear that the Kennedy brothers’ plan to overthrow
Castro had been turned around and used against them by Fidel himself, resulting
in the assassination of President Kennedy. “
Newman writes: “We should heed Dulles’ advice and not fear that almost
everything’ is a successful deception operation. We should, as Dulles advises
us, realize that accidents in intelligence operations happen. Such accidents
have occurred in this case too. They have placed important clues into our
hands.”
“There is an unstated
corollary principal in the game of deception that Allen Dulles was kind enough
to give us. Once a ‘single piece’ of a black operation has been compromised,
the entire fabric of that operation can potentially unravel.”
DAN HARDWAY
said: "If (the 'Oswald, the Pro-Castro Commie' story)
was that coordinated, that quick, and as detailed, it would be reasonable to
infer that it had been laid on in advance. I set out to identify the sources of
these stories that came out immediately after the assassination with detailed
information on Oswald and his pro-Castro activities. I started asking for the CIA
files on all those sources. I got a lot of them before we lost access, but I
did not get them all. That was one of the things I was really pressing on, when
I got shut down."
In a deposition in
the Morley v. CIA case, former HSCA investigator Dan Hardway made some rather
specific allegations that can be followed up and provide what they call “actionable
intelligence” that could make a significant breakthrough in the case.
In the Declaration of
Dan L. Hardway [05/11/16 Re: Civil Action 03-0254 (RJL) Page 6 – 8], he clearly
states that: “During the course of my research I was able…. to review CIA 201
files on individuals who had been sources for stories that appeared in
the immediate aftermath of the assassination tying LHO (Lee Harvey Oswald) to Castro or the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee. I was able to establish that most of the sources of these
stories were, or had been, agents or assets used at one time or another by
David Atlee Phillips…..I had been able to document links between David
Phillips and most of the sources of the disinformation that came out
immediately after the assassination about Oswald and his pro-Castro
proclivities.”
“I confronted
Phillips with those in an interview at our offices on
August 24, 1978. Phillips …was forced to admit that many of the sources were
former assets that he had managed in the late 1950s and early 1960s – but were
also assets whom he was personally managing in the fall of 1963. Mr. Phillips
was asked, but could not explain why the information that came from anti-Castro
groups and individuals pointed to Cuban connections all seemed to come from
assets he had handled personally, but acknowledged that was the case.”
“An extension of
materials used in preparation for this interview of David Phillips has not been
found so far as I know. The memorandum of that interview has not been
located in the official records of the HSCA, although a partial copy has been
circulated in the JFK assassination research community.”
THE
PARTIAL HSCA MEMO
Dan Hardway’s heavily redacted and partially missing
Memo of the August 24, 1978 Interview with David Atlee Phillips reads in part:
Phillips, page 18.
“Mr. Phillips said that he did not participate, nor
was he aware of, in any campaign after the assassination to spread
misinformation about the death of Kennedy. He could not explain why the
misinformation that came from the Cuban groups and individuals that tended to
point to Castro involvement were predominately from assets that he had handled
personally as opposed to ones that had been ran out of the Miami station. He
said that he agreed that it was strange that the one piece of evidence that
tended to show at least DGI foreknowledge was not pursued by his shop while
disinformation from his former assets occupied the attentions of investigators
in that area. Mr. Phillips stated that he did not know of any hard evidence
that existed in 1963 that pointed to Castro’s involvement.”
“When asked about his relationship with Julio Lobo,
he became a bit upset and said he thought he had covered that adequately in his
deposition. He says as far as he can recall he met Lobo only one time, perhaps
it was even in Madrid and not Havana, he doesn’t recall, and he had no
substantial dealings with him.”
“He wanted to know if Veciana’s story about Bishop
is still being considered and if any decision about his being Bishop had be(en)
conclusively arrived at. He said he doesn’t like living under the fear and
tension of possibly being called before the television cameras and having
Veciana suddenly stand up and point a finger at him and say that he is Bishop
and that he saw him with Oswald.”
“Phillips was told by the interviewers that they had
no authority to discuss anything of substance about our investigation to him.
He asked that the interviewers seek permission to let him know what was going
on. He was told that his request would be brought to high-level attention but
that a response of any kind at all could not be assured.”
“Phillips stated that he did not know Paul Bethel
very well, but it was not Bethel who introduced him to Lopez-Fresuet.”
Phillips, page 21
“Mr. Phillips said that he had met McClendon
(Gordon) once when they were in college. He said that he had not seen him again
until September of 1976 when he attended a Retired Intelligence Officers
meeting. Later McClendon had called him and reminded him of an incident
mentioned in Nightwatch involving a school day’s episode and McClendon told him
that he was the man who picked him up in his car. As far as Phillips can recall
he never had any contact with McClendon during the intervening years. He never
met McClendon at any time during 1963 in Dallas.”
“Phillips stated that he had no familiarity with the
Catherwood Foundation or Cummins Catherwood or E. Wharton Shober. He was not
specifically familiar with the Foundation’s Cuban Relief operation in Miami.
Phillips said that debriefing centers in Miami were under the aegis of the CIA
but the Agency only got the product from xxx, they were actually run by another
agency. He said that it many have been ran by military intelligence.”
Bill Kelly
notes: That single piece of the black propaganda at Dealey Plaza that
failed and compromises the whole operation is the disinformation campaign to
blame the assassination on Fidel Castro, which gives us an open window and a
crack in the door into the intelligence network responsible for the otherwise
successful Dealey Plaza operation.
