MORE ON KENNEDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300010008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 1, 1966
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

RECENT Gallup poll has shown that two out of every three
-Americans no longer believe in the Warren Report.
Seldom'in human history has so monstrous a piece of nonsense, so
e aborate and painstaking a structure, become so rapidly, so com-.
ctely discredited. The air has collapsed out of it through two
nholes. The giant obfuscation has melted, like morning mist
' fore the sun. .
We come quite well out of it. `If you want the gen, read LM' could
an excellent slogan for our fund. The moment President Kennedy
was assassinated, the editor in the very first following Notes of the
1) ionth (see appendix, written within a few days of the murder),
1 fore damning new factual evidence uncovered by the indefatigable
i ork of Mark Lane had begun to become available in the American
ogressive weekly National Guardian (after refusal of publication in
I the other American press), pointed out the now admittedly
s gnificant, features of the story. The Observer consequently com-
enter? on this prior role of our journal. As soon as the Warren
ommission Report came out, broadcast over the entire world as
paper back, an article in the next succeeding issue (November
1 64) subjected it to analysis and disclosed a few of its contradictions.
Certainly our voice was not entirely a lone voice. But how populous
as the wilderness in which we then cried and which sought to
snout us down! Can The Times ever blush? The Neiv York Times
printed whole, as it swallowed whole, every word of Warren. Over-'
ght it became the longed-for manna. The multi-million news
tlets of `public servants' like the Thomsons, the gutter press and'
alities alike, had neither doubts nor_.qualms.'Truth' had been
e tablished. `Rumours' were silenced. The whole world was satisfied.
my Reds out of step. `The `proofs' were now before history: The
1 st word had been said.
But it had not.
And now, already: nobody will go to bat for Warren.
The bucket of whit;;wvash with which the American establishment
,I Id its s:,:rcd-cow herds on this side of the Atlantic had, sought to
v it the foi m of the emerging truth is peeling off in flakes. The report
i totally discredited. Its central thesis, its raison d'etre, disproved.
Truly a fast job.
Approved For Release 2001/08/;
Nyhen Kennedy was killed, the Dallas p
prepared `fall guy', a van der Lubbe, and shut his mouth. Just as did
the Nazis when they burned the Reichstag. But let no-one say
conspirators do not learn from history. Like the original of that name,
this van der Lubbe-Oswald-also had carefully prefabricated
`Communist' associations. Somewhere along the line, however,
someone of brighter intelligence than the lower echelons realised
such allegations could turn out too hot to handle. You could get rid
of the fall guy. But not even in a St. Bartholomew's'night would you
be able to dispose of every 'alleged accomplice in such an imaginary
plot. Trials would have to follow. And cross-examinations which
the fabric could not face. The Nazis convicted themselves because,
in trying to convict the Communists, they proved that van der Lubbe
could not have done the deed alone. When the crime would not stick
on those innocent of it, the Nazis found their evidence recoil upon
themselves. From the outset, in Dallas,--the concern of the police
became to conceal the traces of anyone who could be associated with
Oswald in the crime.
And as such traces multiplied, this became the concern of everyone
else anxious to preserve the good repute of the U.S. establishment:
that is, the FBI, the administration, its allies and sycophants abroad,
the `media', even the Kennedy family.
Just as it was the concern of Johnson, the concern of Warren, the .
wir;? -~,.;C their scruples, when it comes tote crunch The
pinpricks have settled the balloon. The first, as most newspaper
readers know by now, is a simple students' social study on `how a
society sets about improvising machinery' for a job of this sort. The
answer is, as will be seen by anyone who reads: by assembling a.
group of signatories whose variety and sanctity will preserve them
from criticism from as many quarters as possible, regardless of
whether they have time to do adequately the job they undertake;
provide them with inadequate staff, inadequate time, a number of
alibis from all those in the establishment who are under suspicion;
draft for them the necessary conclusions however much these may
be cuntiadictedt YlRtdWdence that, even in such conditions, has
bc+'cm,e available; and rely on them (justly as it turns out to sign,
It cannot work for anyone who reads the two books.* These'two
But it didn't work.
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