Valkyrie's Deception in Operation Today

 Valkyrie Deception in Operation Today 

The ideas that President Kennedy and his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy approved the CIA's attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro , and the plots backfired and led to the murder of the President continuously resurfaces as the deception aspect of the Valkyrie plan to kill Castro that continues today. 

While Kennedy baiter and haters like Sam Halpern, Gus Russo and Max Holland are the most frequently cited sources, I will use one of Kennedy's aides, former Senator Harris Wofford, who wrote: 

"From the findings of the (Church) Senate committee, we could begin to understand the burden of knowledge - even of guilt - that Robert Kennedy was carrying in the last years of his life. Together with the findings of the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979, these facts can account for the grief beyond ordinary grief with which Robert Kennedy wrestled for long months and years. They do not prove that John Kennedy was killed as a result of a conspiracy, but they do suggest that it was not a tragedy without reason." 

"Robert Kennedy must have considered the story of those facts told to be worse than the most terrible fiction. Adding to his burden was the obligation he felt to keep all the key facts secret from most, if not all, of his family and friends, and try to withhold them forever from the people of this country and the world." 

[ BK NOTES: And my doing so, protected those who framed and blackmailed him, and carried out the plan that killed his brother. ]

Wofford: 

"Those secrets provided the motives for Castro, or the Mafia, or the CIA's Cuban brigade, or some people in the CIA itself to have conspired to kill the President, yet to preserve the good name of John Kennedy and the government of the United States they had to be kept from the Warren Commission and from the eyes of history." 

"Also weighing on Robert Kennedy's mind must have been the risks of blackmail against the government and the family of the murdered president which threatened to make a special hostage of the Attorney General." 

"From the reconstruction of the record made possible by the Senate House reports, and from everything we know about the character of Robert Kennedy, I believe that the shock of these discoveries and his realization of what violence, crime, and secret conspiracies can lead to were significant factors in his transformation. Thus, in order to understand Robert Kennedy and his times, the truth about these stories must be sorted out and the painful facts faced. That is what I believe Robert Kennedy did....." 

 - And now what we must also find out the truth about these stories, sort them out and face the painful facts. 

[BK NOTES: many thanks to my friend Jim Dwyer, as well as John Simkin and Jefferson Morley for calling attention to Wofford's reference to this ] 

Most of those who accuse JFK and RFK of approving or even knowing about the CIA-Mafia plans to kill Castro. 

These are plans, not plots like those portrayed in the Hollywood movies Executive Action and JFK, where men sit around drinking and smoking and talking about how to whack the president. 

As I have detailed these two plans elsewhere, I want to address the allegation that is at the foundation of this story - that JFK and RFK approved the CIA plans to kill Castro, 

Since all CIA covert operations must be approved by the National Security Council's Special Group (Augumented) - that is augumented with the addition of RFK, there are records of such approval of covert ops, and much of it is documented, even though they are still with holding such government records. 

As documented by the Church Committee and HSCA, the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro began during the Eisenhower administration, included Allen Dulles, Richard Bissell, Richard Helms, James O'Connell, and Robert Mahu on the CIA side, and John Rosselli, Sam Giancana and Santo Traficante on the Mafia side. 

After the failure of the first poison plot, involving Traficante, he was dropped from the program, and after the Bay of Pigs, James O'Connell was replaced as Rosselli's CIA case officer by William Harvey, who was made head of the Cuban Desk in the basement of the CIA HQ at Langley, aka Task Force W. Harvey was responsible for running the expansive CIA JMWAVE base in Miami and Operation Mongoose, the covert ops against Castro that included his assassination. 

But did JFK and RFK know about those assassination contingency plans? 

The Valkyrie plan was probably approved by the NSC SGA - because it called for the recruitment of disenchanted Cuban military officers and administrators to organize a coup against Castro based on the German military's Valkyrie plan to remove Hitler by killing him and taking over the Nazi government. That plan eventually evolved into the AMLASH plan involving Dr. Rolando Cubella (AMLASH). 

But as one of it's major players - Carl Jenkins, told Jefferson Morley, the AMLASH plan was an assassination plan, as many have suspected. 

Jenkins was also a principle agent in the Pathfinder plan, that called for Castro to be shot in the head by snipers with high powered rifles as he drove by in an open jeep, the tactical covert operational contingency plan that according to those CIA NPIC technicians who saw and worked on it, the plan "was disapproved by higher authority," - that is the NSC SGA, RFK and JFK. 

As the overall strategic plan to overthrow Castro, the head of CIA operations for Cuba, Desmond FitzGerald informed the Joint Chiefs of Staff that while they had identified a number of disenchanted Cuban military officers, including Cubella, they didn't have the confidence to talk among themselves. 

That wasn't a problem with the US military and the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the top brass were united in their opposition to the President's policies, which accounts for the adoption of this plan to use against JFK. 

Of the five specific aspects of the origional German military plan to kill Hitler - that fit like a glove over what happened at Dealey Plaza, one stands out. It is the one that is most peculiar, almost  bizarre, but a key element in the plan that protects that actual sponsors. It is getting the intended victim to sign off and approve the plan that would ostensibly end in his death. 

German Col. Clause Von Stauffenberg was the one who devised the Valkyrie plan to have the Home Guard - ie. National Guard, to take over key government buildings and media outlets during a crisis, the revolt of slave laborers was the example given, and Hitler signed off and approved the plan.

With the adoption of the Valkyrie plan by the CIA and Joint Chiefs, and redirecting it to JFK, it called for JFK to approve the plans to kill Castro, something he was reluctant to do.

JFK privately told his old PT109 shipmates and Assst. Navy Sec. Paul Fay, while they were sailing off Massachusetts, and to journalist Joe Alsop, that he was under a lot of pressure to approve the plans to kill Castro, but as with their advice, refused to do so.

And the top leaders of the CIA involved, Dulles, Bissell, Helms and FitzGerald, they all said they DID NOT discuss the plans to kill Castro with the president.

And we know for a documented fact that the Pathfinder Plan to kill Castro, that most closely resembles what occurred at Dealey Plaza, was "disapproved by Higher Authority," though we don't know if that means it was at a previous time approved and then disapproved.

With the president effectively kept out of the operation - plausible denial, the effort shifted to RFK, the President's brother. Attorney General and head of the SGA of the NSC, responsible for approving all such covert ops, especially those against Cuba.

It was no secret that RFK and William Harvey were at odds, and after Harvey sent the elite Pathfinders into Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, RFK had them recalled before they got to Cuba. Then Harvey was replaced as head of the covert Cuban ops by Desmond Fitzgerald, who had a better relationship with RFK.

Shortly after FitzGerald took over he made a tour of his foreign bases, and told them RFK had given them orders to do whatever was necessary to get rid of Castro.

It appears from JMWAVE activities, the NSC SGA approved a series of covert commando terrorist raids against industrial targets - ie. oil and sugar, giving the anti-Castro JMWAVE commandos hope their activation was the beginning of better things to come, especially the plans to kill Castro they had trained for, including Pathfinder.

RFK is known to have visited JMWAVE at least three times, one when he had an infamous run in with Harvey, whose biographer (Stockton) wrote that Harvey usually visited the base to meet with Rosselli. 

The other two times were a visit to a CIA safe house on a Miami golf course, where he met base top brass (Shackley, Campaigns) and case officers (Porter Goss). And then a helicopter jaunt RFK took to a remote Evergades training base where he met some of the elite Pathfinder commandos personally, telling them, "good luck on your mission," whatever it was.

When RFK was asked about his approval of the CIA plans to kill Castro, on at least two occasions, he responded to such allegations by saying, "I put a stop to them," not approve them.

There are a number of documents that support the idea RFK did not approve the CIA plans to kill Castro, often used to make a case against RFK.

One is the Hemingway plot, promoted by Gus Russo in The Nation, that stems from Hemingways wife visiting Cuba to retrieve personal items from their house after Hemingway death. When Castro learned she was there, he went over and spent some time with her there. When CiA people learned of this, they considered it an opportunity to kill Castro that was missed. 

And if that's the best the RFK baiters could come up with that he wanted to kill Castro, it is certainly a stretch.

Another popular example is Desmond FitzGerald's Deputy Samuel Halpern, who repeatedly claimed RFK was the driving force behind the CIAs plots yo kill Castro, and he claimed that CIA officer Charles Ford was the middle man between RFK and Rosselli and the mobsters brought in to kill Castro.

Charles Ford, from Atlantic City and Princeton, was sent to China by the OSS during WW2 on a mission with G. Walton Moore, who became the head of the CIA's Dallas Domestic Contacts office, and personal friend of George deMohrenschilts, the best friend of the accused assassin.

Ford was assigned to the CIAs Training Division at Quantico, VA (aka the Farm), where he was given custody of the Secret Service copy of the Zapruder Film, "for training purposes."

That is he was assigned to Training except for one year - 1963, when he was cross posted to Operations and assigned to JMWAVE. 

When he testified in closed executive sessions before a Congressional Committee investigating the assassination, when it was finally released, clearly indicated that while he  must have interacted with both RFK and Rosselli at JMWAVE, he did not, as Halpern claimed, serve as a liaison between them in any plans to kill Castro.

The whole idea behind having the Kennedys approve the CIA plots to kill Castro, as the Valkyrie plan requires, is to make them responsible for the covert action plans that were developed for use against Castro but turned against them instead.

While the fall back position of those who promote the Kennedys knew and approved the Castro murder plots, and thus themselves deserved to die, lamely attempt to say Castro retaliated and killed JFK before JFK could kill him, that is demonstratedly false.

A further fall back position is that Oswald was motivated to kill JFK because of his knowledge of the CIA plots to kill Castro, something that the Warren Commission didn't even know because it was intentionally kept from them. 

These types of speculation are best made by former Church Committee attorney and author of the book Murder, Inc., that takes its title from LBJs statement in regards to the Kennedy assassination, that "We were running a Murder incorporated in the Caribbean."

But the answer isn't Castro retaliated, or Oswald was inspired by the plots, but the Murder incorporated apparatus we set up to kill Castro, turned around and killed JFK. That was the backfire.

And it was all part of the deception aspect of the plan - the Valkyrie Plan to kill Hitler, adapted for use against Castro, and turned on JFK in Dallas. 

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