OUT OF COMMISSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300030020-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: October 1, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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The American people recoil in horror from any consideratio L .1 in an in a moving automobile on the street below with every
of the possibility that a plot might have operated either from s lot ....... but the same marksman, with the same rifle, fired
through forces within the government. The Warren Commissio General Walker from the concealment of darkness outside his
appears to have shared this aversion. Perhaps the whole populac j indow, as he sat perfectly still in his chair - and missed!
that lived through these times may have to pass away,.before o } Based on what we know -- or can know -- at this time, the
descendants can look at the crime in the way detectives exam Warren Commission has set; the re cord straight.
ine an ordinary murder case, and ask the questions that natu.rall Perhaps the greatest lesson in it is the unspoken conclusion that"
follow. ere is nothing more dangerous than to raise up a human being
We shall for our lifetime continue to be. astonished by severa ithout love.)
facets of the case. or the purposes of histor i, - l
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truth whatever was given them by these agencies. at Maxine Sharpshooter Oswald from the sixth fI id 1.
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it Wmajor weakne i nthe,in est gationis theTfact~that most -f W11at is,this,,farce7about~Oswald's attempting to kill Gen,ral.,,
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slam the door on history. 'Because of the difficulty of provi ence Agency, he was the man directly responsible for botching
negatives to a certainty the possibility of others being involv a invasion of Cuba. President Kennedy had replaced him for !
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panel of responsible men, headed by an astute jurist; and t f '
evidence indicates that Oswald did It, alone.
'' This is to say, the evidence that was available. This Colnna'i }
sion made the most rigorous examination of all tine facts th y
were able to gather, and the country is indebted to justice Wa -
ron and his group for their conscientious work.
While they have done us a service bysettingg'to rest false rump s
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It contained iiotli ixg that has not been carefully ^'lea;.cci ! to t E 1
newspaper weeks or even months before.
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Agents of the FBI and the CI :.appear to have visited Oswald, v stig?ations after the death of Lincoln gave no hint of what we
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explained, "were made in the regular exercise oE their di.fferen
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Dallas was Beethin with,)ohr4 Birch ~ociety;fanatic's and othe "~ l I ''~
The FBI made up no list of dangerous subversives, nor checke .4 v' l na recognition that madmen sometimes are .used by others I
on their whereabouts, before the President's visit. 5uchinform a } instruments of destruction:
tion it is their. responsibility to provide to the Secret~.Sc vice ..
' d one more thing the guard assigned to President Lincoln .'
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n w know; that the murder plot originated with a member of the
P esident's own cabinet, probably Stanton, the Secretary of War. :~
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h.c.te groups, and was acknowledged the most dangerous cita V
the nation for John F., Kennedy to visit ..... yet the Secret Ser
vice made no effort whatever to check on the occupants of build
inks along the parade route. At the Inauguration there were dozens k
arksmen'on the roofs, watching with binoculars the windows o6!i
C,c buildings opposite. Why none in Dallas? 1
Even more difficult to believe, a portion of Kennedy's Secret J
ervice bodyguard was out"drinking till 3 a.m. and even 5 a.::~:
i . ... before going on 4luty at a a.ni.! Have you everstayed
p till 3 a.m.., and then attempted anything that requires quick
r;'jexes,_;u;d physical performance
Al,l)o,: zh *this is flatly against, regulations, none of these men t,
lave been discharged. Instead,' the only Negro member of the
ecret Service, who revealed the drinking-on-duty infractions to
le newspapers, was himself discharged on the claim he had tried,
o sell information to someone.
Why was Allen Dulles 'a member of the W
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