Working Hypothesis on the Assassination of President Kennedy

BILL KELLY’S HYPOTHESIS on the Assassination of JFK

After reading and posting John Newman's Hypothesis from his new book Countdown-to-Darkness (1), I recalled having put together my own hypothesis at the request of counter-conspiracy Professor Ken Rahn, some years ago

An hypothesis is "a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation." 

So I decided to give it another crack and here goes: Bill Kelly's Hypothesis on the Assassination of JFK

HYPOTHESIS

1) Regardless of the role of Lee Havey Oswald,  it doesn’t matter whether the chief suspect was the lone assassin or a patsy, Oswald fits the profile of the Covert Operational Personality (COP), and the crime fits the MO – Modus Operandi of a covert intelligence operation, therefore – H1 -whatever happened at Dealey Plaza was a covert intelligence operation - CIO - that utilized standard covert operational procedures, techniques and deceptions designed to protect the actual sponsors. Since all Covert Intelligence Operations are referred to by a code name – we will call it the Dealey Plaza Operation (DPO).

2) H2 – Cuba is the key. The domestic anti-Communist intelligence network responsible for planning and executing the Dealey Plaza operation had performed similar operations in the past and continues to do so today, and at the time - 1963 - was deeply entwined and overlapping operations in Cuba, and Cuba is the key to unlocking the identity of the network.

As the Microsoft engineer who assisted in the application of their recently developed Azure Search and Cognitive Services to the recently released (2017-2018) JFK assassination records of the JFK Collection by the National Archives and Records Administrations (NARA), immediately recognized the correlation among the Cuban interests of many of the main participants in the assassination story. Cuba is the key to unraveling the covert mysteries of the assassination.

3) H3 -  The Operational Plan for the Dealey Plaza Operation was originally devised to have snipers kill Castro with high powered rifles as he rode in an open jeep in Cuba, as he often did,  a plan (like Pathfinder) that was "disapproved by higher authority," taken off the shelf by those who conducted it, and used to kill the higher authority himself.

4) H4 - This Operational Plan (alao Pathfinder) included a black propaganda psychological warfare disinformation twist to blame the murder on Oswald and Castro Cuban Communists.

5) H5 - The Dealey Plaza operation was designed to be publicly viewed and officially investigated as a conspiracy of at least two snipers - albet a Cuban Communist conspiracy, but this part of the Operational Plan was rejected by President Johnson the evening of the assassination and replaced with the (Phase Two) deranged lone nut scenario. [See: The Tipping Point ]

6) H6 - Since there is no statute of limitations on murder, the legally unresloved homicide of the president and those murders associated directly with it (Tippit, Oswald, Kothe, Giancana, Rosselli, Meyer, et al) should be active investigations, especially with the upcoming release of previously sealed records that could help resolve these cases.

H7 –OTHER?

JOHN NEWMAN'S HYPOTHESIS 

From: VOLUME II – John M. Newman 

Major Working Hypotheses. The following working hypotheses pertain to the entire series of volumes in the present work. Hypotheses Three and Four was presented in the 2008 edition of my previous work, Oswald and the CIA. We will build upon them as the volumes of this series unfold.

(1)   1-          Hypothesis One: At some point in 1962, regardless of how much earlier someone might have wanted President Kennedy to be assassinated, the contours of the plot that eventually emerged began to fall into place: an American Marxist, Lee Harvey Oswald would assassinate JFK and APPEAR to have done so for Fidel Castro with the assistance of the KGB.

(2)   2-          Hypothesis Two:  The plot was also designed to make it APPEAR that the Kennedy brothers’ plan to overthrow Castro had been successfully turned around by Fidel, resulting in the assassination.

(3)   3-          Hypothesis Three:  Lee Harvey Oswald was sent by his agent handler to New Orleans in the summer of 1963 to build upon his pro-Castro Cuban legend that he had begun to establish in Dallas at the beginning of that year.

(4)   4-          Hypothesis Four: Oswald’s CIA files were manipulated by CIA counter-intelligence in the weeks before the assassination to support the design mentioned in Hypothesis One and Two.

In this connection, Oswald (or an imposter) traveled to Mexico City (28 September-3 October 1963) and met with a Soviet diplomat, Valery Kostikov, who was known to U.S. intelligence to be the head of KGB assassinations (Department 13) for the Western Hemisphere.

(5)   5-          Hypothesis Five: An essential element of the plot was a psychological operation to raise the specter of WWIII and the death of forty million Americans. 7.  

      [Note: 7. See the discussion in David Talbot’s Brothers – The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (New York: Free Press, 2007, p. 252-253). Talbot discusses the threat of nuclear war, and also Castro’s remark, “You watch and see, I know them, they will try put the blame on us for this thing.”].

      This threat of a nuclear holocaust was then used by President Johnson to terrify Chief Justice Earl Warren and some of the other men who served on the Warren Commission to such an extent that they believed there was no alternative to writing a report stating Lee Oswald alone had assassinated the president.

(6)   6-          Hypothesis Six (New): The deaths of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo and Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic – without regard to who actually pulled the triggers – were ultimately the result of President Eisenhower’s top secret plan according to which their elimination was an indispensable requirement for the success of his covert plan to overthrow Castro.

(7)   7-          Hypothesis Seven (New): President Kennedy’s April 1961 decisions against direct U.S. military intervention in Cuba and Laos spawned the deep hatred in many circles that gathered momentum during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and later became a critical part of the motivation for his assassination in 1963.

(8)   Further Assumptions

(9)   -          Neither Fidel Castro nor the Soviet Union was involved in the assassination of JFK.

(10)                 -          For the plot that was used in the JFK assassination to work, Castro had to be alive after the president’s death. Rolando Cubela would have to be denied the means to easily kill Castro until after – several months at a minimum – the assassination in Dallas took place.

(11)                 -          Many of the post-assassination lies and cover-ups were carried out by people who had nothing to do with the pre-existing plot to assassinate the president. Many of these people mistakenly thought that what they were doing was in the best interest of the country.

(12)                 -          We would be mistaken to assume that just because there is no written evidence for an event that it never took place.

(13)                 -          (New): DCI Allen Dulles was aware, well before Congo’s independence, of Belgium’s plans for the recession of Katanga Province.

(14)                 -          (New): The claims, by top advisors to Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, that an exile invasion would trigger an uprising of the Cuban population against Castro were known to be false by those who made them.

(15)                 -          (New): The CIA attempt to cobble together a functional government-n-exile from the exiled Cuban leaders was doomed to fail right from the start.

(16)                 -          (New): Given the level and timing of Soviet Bloc military aid to the Castro regime, there was not enough time to adequately prepare, train, and equip a Cuban exile military force capable of toppling the regime.

(17)                 -          (New): DCI Allen Dulles and the Joint Chiefs of Staff knew that the CIA-planned invasion of Cuba would fail, and deliberately withheld this judgement from the president. Furthermore, they assumed that, once the exile forces were being slaughtered on the beachhead at the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy would reverse his policy of refusing to intervene with U.S. military forces.

(18)                 -          (New): Allen Dulles hoped that DDP Dick Bissel would be fired for the failed landing in Cuba, and that Dulles would get to remain as DCI instead of being replaced by Bissell as JFK had originally planned.

(19)                 The Implications of the False Defector Scenario

(20)                 Once you say you are willing to seriously consider that Oswald was sent as a false defector to the Soviet Union to surface a Soviet mole or moles in the CIA and/or MI-6, you have walked into the proverbial wilderness of mirrors. For several reasons, it is best not to aver that this scenario was, in fact, so; rather, it is better to treat it as a hypotheses best described in terms of the probabilities of its many possible scenarios. When considering intelligence operations, “beyond a reasonable doubt” or “by a preponderance of the evidence” are standards of proof that are undercut by plausible deniability. 

(21)                 And like it or not, in this case your choices have important consequences. Whatever permutation you choose, from the many scenarios available, fundamentally affects the way you understand Oswald’s behavior in Japan, and just about all of the major events in his life after his defection to the USSR and re-defection to the U.S

(22)                 To begin with, you must accept as probable, the possibility that neither side (CIA or KGB) in this counterintelligence chess match would have officially acknowledged that Oswald was a false defector. To have done so against the backdrop of the Kennedy assassination would have revealed an embarrassing serious interest in him when both intelligence services were desperate to establish as much distance as possible from the alleged assassin. And if Oswald was not a false defector, both sides would still say the same thing. So the denials get you exactly nowhere. But understanding both sides would deny it if it had been true is important.

(23)                 Oswald’s status as the alleged killer of JFK made him radioactive to both intelligence services. Oswald’s late 1963 Soviet KGB contacts in Mexico caused the KGB – after the assassination – to send a false defector, Yuri Nosenko, to claim that they had nothing to do with the “abnormal” Oswald. In the end, the CIA would be happy to let that fairytale go unchallenged, as it assisted their analogous claim – that the CIA had nothing to do with Oswald’s sojourn in the USSR.

(24)                 In this scenario of moles and false defectors on both sides, you must also accept as probable, the possibility that even when one side discovered a mole in its midst while working for the other side, the mole had to be left in place – perhaps for several years even as more damage occurred – in order to prevent the other side from figuring out how the mole was uncovered. Before arresting the mole, it was necessary to create and sell a secondary and believable story about how the case was solved to divert the opponent’s attention to the true source of the discovery.

(25)                 With so many layers of deception, you must admit that, at the end of the day, you do not have the “true” story or all of the story; rather, what you have is a complicated best-case scenario. In the hypothesis under consideration here, the basic scenario is already complex: using Oswald to surface a highly placed Soviet mole in the West who had betrayed the U.S. U-2 program and also very likely the CIA mole in the GRU, Pyotr Popov. But this scenario was made exceeding MORE complex by a subsequent KGB defector....Nosenko gave the CIA a COMPLETELY FALSE account of that (Oswald’s) file. The KGB, Nosenko said, had no interest at all in Oswald, had not interviewed him, watched him or bugged his apartment in Minsk. Similarly, the CIA’s official position has been that they never had contact with or interest in Oswald. Both sides were telling false tales…..

(26)                 His (Nosenko’s) claim of complete familiarity with the Oswald’s Soviet sojourn was the bait that assured he would be allowed to defect to the U.S. What happened afterward was one of the hardest fought and destructive battles in the history of the Agency…

(27)                 The Soviet denial of interest in Oswald collapsed with the demise of the USSR. We have not suffered a political collapse of similar proportions in America, but instead have witnessed a further entrenchment of a national security state….

(28)                 Little by little, as the small pieces of information were reevaluated in the light of yet more small pieces, new life was breathed into the false defector hypothesis. That story is important all by itself, aside from the JFK case, because it leads so deeply into the spy-counterspy wars of the past and that may still be taking place.

(29)                 If Oswald was a witting tool of an Angleton operation at the beginning of the story, it increases the probability that he might have been witting or manipulated into an operation at the end of the story.

(30)                 A CIA propaganda associate of David Phillips, William Kent, intimated as much to his daughter at a family Thanksgiving gathering: “Oswald was a useful idiot.”

(31)                 Countdown to Darkness: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume II (Volume 2): John M. Newman: 9781511503945: