Preview of Larry Hancock's The Tipping Point
Larry Hancock’s new book The Tipping Point is a concise summary of his many decades long investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy.
[Those
who want a taste of The Tipping Point
before being tempted to purchase it, you can read key excerpts at the Mary Ferrell
web site here: https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Tipping_Point.html
]
I have
been following Larry’s work since his landmark Someone Would Have Talked (Updated in 2010), which firmly puts to
rest the often repeated and demonstratedly false cliche that if there as a
conspiracy to kill the President someone would have talked. They talked all right,
and Larry documents numerous cases, each of which leads to the heart of the case.
Since
the official deranged lone nut scenario has been proven false, it must have
happened another way, and in this book Larry lays out a very believable
alternative scenario, one that connects all of the main subjects to Cuba, and
defines the essence of a covert intelligence operation, the means by which the
conspirators achieved their goal, and got away with it.
The
Tipping Point picks up where Josiah Thompson’s Last Second in Dallas leaves off, with the President’s head
shattered by two almost simultaneous shots, one from the front and one from
behind. While Thompson gives a micro analysis of the eyewitness reports, ballistics,
medical evidence, and acoustics, fitting them all together without speculating
who was behind the triggers, Hancock puts things in their Cuban context, lays
out a chronology and gives names to those who are the most likely candidates
for pulling off such an audacious triangulation of firepower.
As with
the subjects in his Someone Would Have
Talked, and as CIA official Rolf Mowatt-Larsen explained in his 2019 CAPA
presentation in Dallas, the suspects are limited, limited to those who had the capability
to conduct such complex covert intelligence operations, and many of them are
the same ones who talked and most are familiar characters to anyone who has
studied the murder of the President in even a superficial manner.
James
Jesus Angleton ran the CIA counter-inteligence office that kept particularly
keen tabs on Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination, counter-insurgency
expert General Ed Lansale, America’s James Bond William Harvey director of the
anti-Castro Cuban Task Force W and the case officer for Mafia Don John
Rosselli, along with covert cowboy Rip Robertson, all of whom are associated
with the CIA’s Miami station JMWAVE, where most of the intirgue stems from.
Besides
documenting most of the references to records released under the JFK Act,
Hancock refers to the CIA crypt files that translates the codes into English,
puts everything into a clear and concise chronololgy, and quotes the suspect
themselves as to their participation in the Cuban ops that were turned against JFK
at Dealey Plaza.
Besides
the usual suspects, Larry brings some relatively new names into the fold – Carl
Jenkins and John I.F. Harper, CIA trainers who prepared the Cuban Pathfinders
for the Bay of Pigs and later Mongoose commando attacks against Cuba. And Gene
Wheaton, Jenkins’ former housemate and proprietor of a CIA airline propriety
company. Wheaton tried to blow the whistle on what he knew about renegade CIA
operations but then CIA director William
Casey was in on it, and the Assassination Records Review Board didn’t pay him
any attention.
Narrowing
down the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro to the few that resemble the Dealey
Plaza operation, Larry focuses on one particular plot – the Pathfinder Plan.
From CIA technicians at the National Photo Interpretation Center (NPIC) we
learn that Pathfinder was a plan to infiltrate anti-Castro Cuban commando
snipers into Cuba and shoot Castro in the head with high powered rifles as he
rode by in an open jeep.
I pretty
much see eye to eye with Larry Hancock, and while we are usually on the same
page, Larry always seems to be ahead of me, so I know I will learn something
new from anything he writes.
[https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Tipping_Point_Introduction.html
]
Some
excerts:
Reality
Check
“…..it
had become quite clear, to me at least, that the official history (as portrayed
in the Warren Commission Report) of the assassination was simply not credible.
That conclusion was based in part on an assessment of the materials offered in
support of the Warren Report were questionable in many respects – including the
fact that the legal chain of evidence used in support of the report was not
only broken, but contained so many questionable elements that an evidentary
approach simply did not offer a viable foundation for assessing the crime.”
“Beyond
that, the documentary record supported the conclusion that an iterative series
of actions had been taken after the assassinationto suppress certain items of
evidence, to obfuscate witness testimony, and to preempt any contemporary
investigation of conspiracy during the months immediately following the
assassination.”
The Back
Door
“After
fifteen years of my own inquiry into President Kennedy’s murder, I concluded
that there had indeed been a conspiracy in play – but that my initial and
preferred, evidentiary approach to the crime would remain both frustrating and
fruitless. Pursuing a conspiracy by going through the front door was simply not
viable.”
“….What
we foundwas that irrespective of the individual (we studied) and the lead, to
some extent all of them shared some sort of history with the Cuban revoluion of
the late 1950s, the rise to power of Fidel Castro, the Cuban resistance to his
regime, the various CIA efforts to oust Castro from power or the years-long
anti-Castro resistance movement inside Cuba or among Cuban exiles in the United
States.”
“Perhaps
most startling, not only did all of the sources and associations which seemed
most credible connect to Cuba in some fashion, in the end they actually pointed
in the same direction that Robert Kennedy appears to have immediately suspected
on the afternoon of November 22, 1963.”
The
Cuban Backstory
“…Due to
its proximity and its long-standing trade relationships with the United States,
Cuba was already an area of routine CIA foreign intelligence collections as
well as political influence (anti-communist) efforts…..In support of such
options the U.S. Army began using commercial covers to secretly place officers
inside Cuba to collect military intelligence…..”
The CIA
Cuba Project 1960-61
“The initial
CIA effort to oust Fidel Castro, approved by President Eisenhower in March,
1960, bailed in its goal to produce well-armed, widespread guerilla action
against the Castro regime by the end of October, 1962…”
“Moving
dramatically from covert action, the CIA turned to the creation and amphibious
landing of a heavily aremed, brigade sized, conventional infantry force –
supported by tanks, armored trucks, heavy weapons units and parachute drops as
well as by a Cuban volunteer air element.”
BK
NOTES: When the original covert insertion of Pathfinder commandos into the east
coast mountains was removed from the planning and replaced with the full force
brigade, General Ed Lansdale and his Phillipine trainer were removed from the
operation.
“It has
only been with the release of a body of new information from the CIA’s own
internal inquiries and histories as well a great deal of relatively recent oral
history work, that we can begin to fully appreciate the disconnnects between
the mission as it was directed and understood by President Kennedy, and the
actual military operation as it was carried out by (Richard) Bissell and those
reporting to him…..”
Covert
Action against Cuba 1961-1962
“For the
Kennedy administration the year 1962 began with a reset in Cuban affairs.
President Kennedy remained committed to action against Cuba, but it was going
to be covert action – orchestrated at an interdepartmental level above the CIA.
The program would officially begin early in the year, designated Operation
Nongoose and headed by a Kennedy appointee rather than a senior CIA officer….Instead
the CIA was assigned to a support role, carried out by a relatively small group designated as Task Force W (headed by
William Harvey) and with field operations conducted by the JMWAVE station….”
“Still, a number of the highly trained infiltration cadre that had been originally trained under Carl Jenkins remained operational, although relegated to performing relatively minor missions under officers such as Bay of Pigs veterans Rip Robertson and Grayston Lynch. The paramilitary personnel involved in those missions are of special interest because of the strength of their anti-Castro commitment, and the degree to which they remained militarily active in both sanctioned and unsanctioned efforts against the Castro regime over a number of years.”
Larry and I agree on a number of basic hypothesis. For one, the official story just doesn't hold water, so it must have happened another way. In addition, whatever happened at Dealey Plaza it was a covert intelligence operation that is centered around Cuba, CIA operations against Cuba, and specific CIA-Mafia plans to kill Castro. One of the plans to kill Castro was turned against JFK in Dallas, and the multi-gunman ambush and conspiracy was meant to be transparent, and Castro was to be blamed for it.
And I think there are others who are working on this case who now think the same - Peter Dale Scott, John Newman, Bill Simpich, Jeff Morley, Malcolm Blunt, Alan Dale and others.
And
every line item is footnoted to the hilt.
Additional Links:
https://larryhancock.wordpress.com/2019/08/25/cia-pseudonyms-and-aliases/
http://www.larry-hancock.com/documents/index.html
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