A Spy’s Disinformed Propagation of the Assassination
Former
CIA agent Bruce Held is writing a blog post on a Spys View of American History,
the details of which clearly indicate can be classified as very distinct
disinformation and black propaganda.
Bruce
Held’s post on his 60 Years Ago Today blog falsely claims that Lee Harvey Oswald
was inspired to kill the President after reading Daniel Harker’s September 9th
1963 Associated Press (AP) article published in the New Orleans newspaper
reporting on Harker’s September 7th
interview with Fidel Castro at the Brazilian embassy in Havana. Held calls
attention to the article that is indeed a significant piece of assassination
evidence, although he misinterprets it.
Harker’s AP article is the most frequently
used source for those who try to pin the Dealey Plaza donkey tail on Fidel
Castro, but is also an important lead into the nefarious counter-intelligence
operations that have a bearing on the assassination.
Held
writes: “Castro had made an impromptu appearance at a reception hosted by the
Brazilian Embassy in Havana on Saturday evening, 7 September. He took the
initiative to approach an American journalist named Daniel Harker and offered
him a quick interview. In the interview Castro said, ‘We are prepared to
fight them and answer them in kind. United States leaders should think that if
they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves
will not be safe. Let Kennedy and his brother Robert take care of themselves
since they, too, can be the cause of an attempt which will cause their deaths.’”
The
article published in the New Orleans Times Picayune on page 7 of the September
9th edition, has a headline that refers to Castro’s rant against the US
government approved terrorist attacks against Cuban industrial targets by the
CIA paid and trained Cubans that operated out of the JMWAVE station, notably
the Pathfinders. Some of them were captured and tortured and admitted that the
CIA paid and trained them. Some, like those who were captured in the late
October raid by the CIA raider ship Rex, head high powered rifles with scopes,
that CIA raider ship Captain Rolando Martinez said “weren’t for shooting rabbits.”
Castro
knew they were gunning for him, he just didn’t know if the Kennedy brothers had
approved those CIA backed assassination missions, and there is no documented
proof that they did, while there is documented proof that JFK had two
backchannel communications going with Castro, one at the UN and another with
French journalist Jean Daniel.
When
Castro’s comments to Harker were quoted over the media, a handful of men (FitzGerald,
his two assistants Bruce Cheever and Samuel Halpern and possibly one or two
others) at the Cuban desk in the basement of the CIA headquarters at Langley
knew that the date of the interview – September 7th, and the location – the Brazilian
embassy, were significant indications that Castro knew about the meeting
between Dr. Rolando Cubela (AMLASH) and Desmond FitzGerald’s agent Nestor
Sanchez in Bolivia that very day. And the fact that a Cuban businessman had
warned the CIA that Cubela was a “dangle,” a fake agent attempting to lure
those who opposed Castro out into the open.
Held
continues: “Castro made these threatening comments because he knew that a
senior Cuban government official was meeting in Brazil at that very time, 5-8
September, with a senior CIA officer named Nestor Sanchez. The senior Cuban
official, Rolando Cubela, volunteered to assassinate Castro and establish a new
Cuban government that was less hostile to the United States. Sanchez told
Cubela that his proposal would be brought to the attention of the “highest
levels” of the US government and promised a response at their next meeting,
scheduled for 29 October in Paris.”
What
Held doesn’t tell you is that Nestor Sanchez’s boss and case officer Desmond
FitzGerald, who had replaced William Harvey as head of the Cuban desk,
personally met with Cubela in Paris and convinced him that the Kennedys did
approve of assassinating Castro when in fact FitzGerald later testified that he
never told them, or CIA director John McCone, who he knew to be Catholics who
opposed murder on principle. While FitzGerald has the name associated with the
Kennedys of Boston, the looks and charisma, he was not a Kennedy nor did he
inform them of the Castro assassination operation.
According to Held, “By speaking to Harker, Castro had gone out of his way to warn the CIA
that he knew about the ongoing discussions with Cubela. Unfortunately, we
ignored the warning. What we found out some years later was that Cubela was a
double agent. He was not working with the CIA; he was working for Cuban
Counterintelligence. Everything the CIA would ask Cubela to do would be
immediately reported back to Castro.”
Yes, we
agree that Cubela “But in the Harker interview, Oswald must have felt that
Castro was speaking directly to him.”
But, and
it’s a BIG But – we haven’t even established that Oswald actually read that
issue or that article.
Held: “Five
months before he had attempted to assassinate Edwin Walker in an effort to earn
a place for himself in Cuba.”
But how
is the Walker shooting related to Cuba, or an effort to earn a place for
himself in Cuba? That is not established either. Oswald told Marina he tried to
kill Walker because he was a fascist like Hitler who should have been
assassinated as well. Nothing about Cuba.
Held: “Just two weeks before he had renewed
practicing with his sniper rifle,”
But wait
a minute, the Warren Report concluded that Oswald didn’t practice with the
rifle, nor did he ever purchase or have ammunition.
Held: “….explaining
to his wife, ‘Fidel Castro needs defenders. I’m going to join an army of
volunteers. I’m going to become a revolutionary.’”
Wow, I
never heard that before. And it’s not footnoted, other than claiming Marina
said it and I don’t believe she did.
“The
threats against President Kennedy from Castro himself would have a profound
impact on Oswald - - and, in 11 weeks, on the nation.”
But were
they threats or a warning?
The
Murder, Inc. that LBJ referred to was the mechanism “we were running a Murder,
Inc. in the Caribbean,” and while Castro did have spies everywhere, including
infiltrating JMWAVE, he tried and executed his opponents (ala American William
Morgan), and didn’t have a mechanism like our Murder, Inc. – aka ZRRIFLE, that
could do it.
The
obvious question isn’t whether Oswald knew of the Harker interview, and Castro’s
statements, or if Castro attempted to retaliate against JFK, but whether the
Murder, Inc. Boys at JMWAVE redirected their target from Castro to JFK, as they
certainly hated him as much as they did Fidel Castro.
And we know from the comments of Desmond FitzGerald after being informed of the assassination, wondering if his Cubans were involved, and the recently released Heath Memo, that there were those in the CIA itself who also suspected this immediately after the assassination and conducted an investigation of the JMWAVE station, the results of which have not been forthcoming.
More on Disinformation at Dealey Plaza
In Deep Politics III Peter Dale Scott writes:
“In the days after the murders in Dallas, 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. -
They all came from either directly from an intelligence source, or from someone
in the hands of an intelligence agency - The Stories changed over
time, to support either a pro-conspiratorial hypothesis (“Phase One”) or a
rebuttal of this (“Phase Two”).- 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.-
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?”
Scott: “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.”
Newman: “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."
“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.”
You can't understand what happened at Dealey Plaza unless you understand the
fundamentals of psychological warfare, disinformation and black propaganda –
because that's the part of the Dealey Plaza operational plan that failed, that
failed in its contention that Castro Cuban Communists were responsible for the
assassination, and because it failed it gives us a good glimpse into the
Looking Glass and brings us very close to those who designed the plan,
especially the part that failed.
https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/06/disinformation-at-dealey-plazq.html
https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2015/04/list-of-psychwar-black-prop-ops.html
For an opposing perspective here’s a Naval War College Review of a book “Disinformation, Misinformation and the ‘Conspiracy” to Kill JFK Exposed” (Hamden, Conn. Archon Books, 1987) that dismisses all conspiracy theories and concludes JFK was killed by a deranged lone nut.
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4213&context=nwc-review
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