The Case for a Covert Conspiracy

 THE CASE FOR A COVERT CONSPIRACY - By Bill Kelly

The Great Debate over who killed President Kennedy has been raging now for almost 60 years, with no end in sight.

So I would like to propose a different approach, not arguring over who killed JFK or why, but rather discuss how the assassination was accomplished.

THE MO – MODUS OPERANDI SYSTEM

The MO – Modus Operandi approach to criminal investigation is not new, but first formally and officially developed by UK Canadian-British Major General Llewellyn W. Atcheriey (1871-1954), who began to maintain records and files on criminals and the types of crimes they committed.

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In 1908 he secured the position of Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Constabulary. During his time there he produced M.O. Modus Operandi in Criminal Investigation and Detection (1924), a well regarded manual on police detection.

The Policeman (p. 191) By Cornelius Francis Cahalane writes, “The policeman, upon investigation of a crime in which he found a familiar mode of operation, would look up the records of various thieves who usually committed the crime in a like manner. If such a person were at large, and he had no promising leads in another direction, he eliminated all other suspects and confined his efforts to a scrutiny of the thieves who he knew from past experience used methods of operation similar to those used by the thief who committed the crime under investigation. Policeman who followed this system usually kept the information to themselves; some used a book, while others relied upon their memory. The need of spreading this information to all members of the Force, and of not confining it exclusively to the man making the investigation, prompted the compiling of a system by Major General Llewellyn W. Atcherley, Inspector of Constabulary, Office of the Home Secretary.”

It is contended for this system that it tends to narrow the search by a process of elimination of those not known to the police, and of those who are known but who do not commit this certain crime, or, if so, have always committed it differently from the manner found in connection with the crime under investigation. This system is helpful in many instances, but too much reliance cannot be placed upon it. There are some instances where thieves have committed the same crime in the same way for years, or until caught and convicted,...This system is helpful, but not infallible….The big thing to be remembered is …that the information he gathers is to be used as a comparison with other records on file...”

APPLYING THE MODUS OPERANDI SYSTEM TO DEALEY PLAZA

In applying Atcheriey's MO System to Dealey Plaza, the choice is pretty easy, and a very definate line in the sand - and that is whether the assassination of the President was the result of the impulsive, spontaneous actions of one Deranged Lone-Nut Case, whose individual psychosis can be classified in the realm of medical diagnosis, or was it a conspiracy - a plot, or a covert intelligence operation - a pre-arranged plan that was designed to be kept secret.

If the former, then we can all go home and let the psychiatrists and psychologists analysize the psychosis of a madman, and the assassination was disconnected to any of the political and historical activities of the day, while if the latter, they were connected, and therefor can be figured out even if designed to be kept secret. As John F. Kennedy once said, “the problems of man can be solved by man,” and his murder is no exception. 

In examining the designated lone nut scenario, as laid out by the Warren Commission, it is easily apparent that there are many problems with it, as it is full of holes that don’t hold up when examined closely, as most of the first generation of researchers discovered.

For myself, I examined the movements of the accused assassin at the time of the shooting and determined, at least for myself, that Oswald was not even on the sixth floor at the time of the shooting, so that scenario can be dispensed with.

See:    https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2020/06/dispensing-with-oswald.html    /   https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-doors-of-perception-why-oswald-is_14.html                                                   

THE COVERT OPERATIONAL CONSPIRACY

All of the evidence taken together strongly indicates that whatever happened at Dealey Plaza, the Modus Operandi of the crime was that of a covert intelligence operation, a Black Op designed to remain secret, planned in advance as an illegal act, conducted on a need to know basis using standard covert operational tradecraft, using deception as an attribute and acted out so it was plausibly denialable by the actual sponsors.

Even if Lee Harvey Oswald was the Lone Sniper in the Sixth Floor Window and killed the President in line with the Warren Commission and single-bullet Theory, especially if Oswald was involved in any way, rather than the act of a Lone Mad Man, the assassination must be considered a covert intelligence operation - and investigated as such.

Even professional Lone Wolf assassins need a support network – ala John Wilks Booth and the hired assassin in the Day of the Jackal, and even if Oswald was not the patsy he claimed to be, and somehow got to the sixth floor and took the shots that killed the President, he was still a covert operative and part of an intelligence network that controlled his activities.

LEE HARVEY OSWALD AS A COVERT INTELLIGENCE OPERATOR

Oswald’s basic background clearly indicates that in his 24 years he was a member of a military family, was reared to be a soldier, was infaturated by spy films, TV shows and literature, and was recruited for intelligence work before defecting to the USSR. 

Oswald’s brother Robert made note of the fact that one of his younger brother’s favorite TV shows was the story of Herbert Philbrick, an FBI undercover agent who infiltrated local political organizations posing as a communist in order to ferret out real commnists. Oswald also reportedly read Philbrick’s book, and Philbrick himself, in an address before a lawyer’s group, expressed foreknowledge of JFK’s assassintion shortly before it occurred.

Besides Philbrick’s story, a major motion picture was made along the same lines that starred x – as the undercover agent. X also played the role of Strategic Air Command (SAC) general Curtis LeMay in the movie about SAC, that also starred Jimmy Stewart, who served in the 8^th Air Force in Europe during World War II and – was a general? in the Air Force Reserves.

Both of Oswald’s brothers served in the military, Robert in the USMC, the main inspiration behind Oswald’s desire to be a Marine, as he reportely memorized Robert’s USMC handbook as a youngster. Joining the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), which was founded in 1941 by Texas oilman D. H. Byrd, who owned the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) at the time fo the assassination, and Cord Meyer, Sr., father of CIA official Cord Meyer, Jr. Oswald wore a uniform and took part in their activities, and became associated with CIA contract agent and pilot David Ferrie, who also worked for Eddie Rickenbacker’s Eastern Airlines. Oswald’s other half-brother, John Pic, enlisted in the Coast Guard, where he was serving on the Port of New York when Oswald and his mother visited and stayed for a number of months. Pick later also enlisted in the USMC Reserves, and then joined the Air Force, and was serving at Lackland AFB in Fort Worth at the time of the assassination.

I know that the USMC had an enlistment program to encourage the brothers of Marines to enlist, and I believe Oswald was the subject of this program, as an enlistment recruiter convinced Oswald to enlist before his 17^th birthday, but he was unable to do so. He then did enlist shortly after his 17^th birthday, droping out of high school to do so.

MINNESOTTA MULT-PHASIC PERSONALISTY INVINTORY – MMPPI

One of the most important points that serial plagerist Gerald Posner makes in his book Case Closed (xx), is the fact that when Oswald was picked up playing hookie from school in New York City, where he and his mother were living with his brother John Pic at the time. Classified as a Juvinile Delinquent, Oswald was evaluated by Dr. R. Herzog, who according to Posner, administered the Minnesotta Mulit-Phasic Personality Invintory (MMPPI) test to him.

Not really a test you can pass or fail, it is a series of questions the answers to which determines a personality type, and according to Posner, Herzog listed Oswald’s personality as being “PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE,” not typical but unique to about 20% of the population.

I found this interesting when I read about the London Sunday Times interview with US Navy Lt. Commander Thomas Narut at a NATO conference in Oslo. Narut was a nuro-psychiatrist stationed primarly in San Diego, California, where Oswald was also stationed.  In the interview Narut said that the Navy tests recruits looking specifically for those with a “PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE” personality, the type that are best suited to be trained as assassins, and the type Herzog said Oswald was.  The recruits are then put through a training program that uses films of violence that are repeated to the point that the subjects are not affected by the violence. As the US Marine Corps comes under the supervision of the Department of Navy, Narut said that such trainees are mainly Marines who are placed in US Embassys abroad and called upon to commit assassinatoins when necessary.

THE PARALLAX VIEW

The movie The Parallax View, staring Warren Beaty as a reporter who stumbles on an assassins recruiting network, infiltrates them. They begin with a written test very similar to the MMPPI, that Beaty takes to a University professor to see what its all about. The professor explains that it is used to identify certain persoanlity charastics, including the ability to commit murder, so they give the test to a convicted homicidal maniac to fill out.  After acceptance into the program Beaty is forced to watch a series of films, just as Narut said was done. The movie ends with the assassination of a Senator at the Texas Trade Mart, where JFK was supposed to be at a luncheon when he was assassinated in Dallas.

I obtained a used copy of a paper back book The Parallax View that the movie is based on, written by Alan Sagner, a former OSS officer during World War. The biggest difference between the book and the movie, as far as I could determine, was the ending. Rather than an assassination at the Texas Trade Mart, the victim is run off an ocean side rode between Wildwood Crest and Cape May, New Jeresey, near where I lived at the time. So I drove there and found a high security US Navy Research facility, that a local bartender told me was a Navy radio antenas used to communicate with nuclear submarines at sea.

In an interview with Len Osanic on Black Op Radio, the Parallax View author Alan Sagner said that the testing in the program, including the MMPPI and film closage, were real, and based on testing and training he received in the OSS during World War II.

But that wasn’t the end of Parallax, as it is defined as a problem in viewing expereinced by pilots who loose their ability to deterine what’s up and down – xxxx – and probably one of the reasons John Kennedy, Jr. died in a plane crash.

When I requesed and obtained the annual reports for Collins Radio for 1962-63-64, I knew they supplied the radios for all SAC bombers and Air Force One, and provided cover for the CIA’s JMWAVE boat The Rex, but was surprised to read that they received a major multi-million dollar contract to study and try to resolve the Parallax problem experienced by pilots.

The Modus Operandi behind the assassination of President Kennedy must be cosidered a covert intelligence operation because the facts of the case indicate that, including 1) Those individuals who expressed foreknowledge of the murder; 2) Many if not most of the principle characters were trained in covert intelligence operations, utilized tradecraft and had direct intelligence agency/network associations; 3) deception and traceable disinformation was utilized; 4) There were, as former Senator Richard Schweiker (R.Pa.) put it, "fingerprints of intelligence" all over the place.

As detailed in the study of the use of the Modus Operandi System, it is not perfect, and is only a tool of investigation that eleminates some and narrows down the number of suspects that should be investigated.

The MO System, when applied to Dealey Plaza, does not tell you who was responsible for the crime, but does provide a method for approaching the crime in a way that can lead to its resolution.

Because Covert Intelligence Operations are conducted in a specific way, and those characters involved were also involved in previous covert intelligence operations, both before and since Dealey Plaza, in Guatemala, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam and Chile, the players and suspects are identifiable if not already known.

As my friends and associates well know, I have been studying the assassination of President Kennedy for many years, so the most frequently asked question I get from those who know this is, "Who killed JFK?," but I still can't answer that question.

While I am certain that the accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone gunman he has been portrayed to be, and I don't know the identities of those actually responsible for what happened at Dealey Plaza, I have, in the words of the Hollywood detective Lieutenant Peter Faulk Colombo, - "I don't know who committed the murder, but I figured out how they did it."

I got the MO down - the Modus Operandi - was that of a covert intelligence operation.

According to the U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, a covert operation (covert ops) is "an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor."

 thieves who usually committed the crime in a like manner. If such a person were at large, and he had no promising leads in another direction, he eliminated all other suspects and confined his efforts to a scrutiny of the thieves who he knew from past experience used methods of operation similar to those used by the thief who committed the crime under investigation. Policeman who followed this system usually kept the information to themselves; some used a book, while others relied upon their memory. The need of spreading this information to all members of the Force, and of not confining it exclusively to the man making the investigation, prompted the compiling of a system by Major General Llewellyn W. Atcherley, Inspector of Constabulary, Office of the Home Secretary.”

“It is contended for this system that it tends to narrow the search by a process of elimination of those not known to the police, and of those who are known but who do not commit this certain crime, or, if so, have always committed it differently from the manner found in connection with the crime under investigation. This system is helpful in many instances, but too much reliance cannot be placed upon it. There are some instances where thieves have committed the same crime in the same way for years, or until caught and convicted,...This system is helpful, but not infallible….The big thing to be remembered By him is that the information he gathers is to be used as a comparison with other records on file...”

APPLYING THE MODUS OPERANDI SYSTEM TO DEALEY PLAZA

In applying Atcheriey's MO System to Dealey Plaza, the choice is pretty easy, and a very definite line in the sand - and that is whether the assassination of the President was the result of the impulsive, spontaneous actions of one Deranged Lone-Nut Case, whose individual psychosis should be classified in the realm of medical diagnosis, or was it a covert action, a pre-arranged plan that was meant be secret to protect the actual sponsors?

If the former, then we can all go home and let the psychiatrists and psychologists analysis the psychosis of a madman, and the assassination was disconnected to any of the political and historical activities of the day, while if the latter, the murder was connected to the political realities of the day, and therefor can be figured out.

But all of the evidence taken together strongly indicates that whatever happened at Dealey Plaza, the Modus Operandi of the crime was that of a covert intelligence operation, a Black Op designed to remain secret, planned in advance as an illegal act, conducted on a need to know basis using standard covert operational tradecraft and acted out so it was plausibly deniable by the actual sponsors.

Even if Lee Harvey Oswald was the Lone Sniper in the Sixth Floor Window and killed the President in line with the Single-bullet Theory, especially if Oswald was involved in any way, rather than the act of a Lone Mad Man, the assassination must be considered a covert intelligence operation - and investigated as such. 

 

While the Secret Service study of assassins tried to come up with a common diagnosis, they failed to recognize one specific type of assassin that Oswald fits – what I call the Covert Operative Personality (COP) profile. The COP profile is very specific, as those who fit this personality are trained by the military, usually the Marines, they are fluent in a foreign language, use Post Office boxes, keep an apartment separate from their families, and they utilize what Allen Dulles called the crafts and techniques of intelligence. Oswald sets the pattern for the COP personality but it also fits others such as Watergate burglars Frank Forini Sturgis and Eugenio Martinez, Gerry Patrick Hemming, Tosh Plumley and Felix Rodriguez, to name a few famous ones.

Whenever a COP profile personality is involved in an incident such as what happened at Dealey Plaza or Watergate, that incident should be assumed to be a covert intelligence operation and investigated as such.

The Modus Operandi behind the assassination of President Kennedy must be considered a covert intelligence operation because the facts of the case indicate that, including 1) There were individuals who expressed foreknowledge of the murder; 2) Many if not most of the principle characters were trained in covert intelligence operations, utilized tradecraft and had direct intelligence agency/network associations; 3) deception and traceable disinformation was utilized; 4) There were, as former Senator Richard Schweiker (R.Pa.) put it, "fingerprints of intelligence" all over the place.

As detailed in the study of the use of the Modus Operandi System, it is not perfect, and is only a tool of investigation that eliminates some and narrows down the number of suspects that should be investigated.

The MO System, when applied to Dealey Plaza, does not tell you who was responsible for the crime, but does provide a method for approaching the crime in a way that can lead to its resolution.

Because Covert Intelligence Operations are conducted in a specific way, and those characters involved were also involved in previous covert intelligence operations, both before and since Dealey Plaza, in Guatemala, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam and Chile, the players and suspects are identifiable if not already known.

Once you view what occurred at Dealey Plaza as an operation, a covert intelligence operation, it doesn't matter what Oswald's role was - lone gunman, co-conspirator or patsy.

Joshia Thompson, a first generation JFK researcher and longtime San Francisco private detective in the Sam Spade tradition, is the author of "Six Seconds in Dallas" and "Gumshoe," that details some of his exploits. Thompson once said that every case he worked on always had a point where a piece of evidence fit the bill, made the case come unraveled and led to its resolution, - except the Kennedy assassination.

Well, I think that point is being reached, not only by me, but by other researchers and writers whose work is coming together, as the previously hidden pieces of the puzzle fall into place, giving us a good picture of what really happened at Dealey Plaza.

I was very disenchanted when I first realized that the crime was not only a complex conspiracy but an even more unfathomable covert intelligence operation that was designed to deceive and remain hidden, and only become visible when they fail, and the Dealey Plaza Operation didn’t fail.  I became disenchanted because I realized that it would take an even more powerful counter-intelligence operation to determine the truth and seek some semblance of justice.

I knew the network responsible for the crime and was getting away with the murder of a president was much more powerful than me or any group I could put together, so I considered the resolution of this crime an unattainable possibility.

Now however, decades later, I can see it happening - the vision comes before reality.

The resolution of the assassination of President Kennedy - to a legal and moral certainty, is now attainable for three reasons - 1) the Power of the Internet gives us a network that makes all knowledge the significant information needed available to us; 2) The JFK Act of 1992 - as it is still in force, legally gives us access to all of the necessary records and evidence in the case; 3) the commitment and perseverance of a small number of very knowledgeable and dedicated independent researchers who are working on this case, many full time. Those three things together wield the power to overcome the intelligence network responsible for the Dealey Plaza operation.

We have the internet network, we have the JFK Act law behind us and we have a dedicated group of individuals who, if they work as a team, can identify, expose and take down the network that was responsible for what happened at Dealey Plaza that day.

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So in a sense, as we consolidate our research and knowledge of the case, and prepare legal maneuvers, we won't have to go to them, eventually they will come to us.