Thursday, October 26, 2023

A Spys Disinformed Propagation of the Assassination

 A Spy’s Disinformed Propagation of the Assassination 

By Billkelly3@gmail.com

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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