THE KENNEDY MYSTERY REOPENED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300010048-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: July 29, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

The Kennedy Mystery Reopened: ;;
CPYRGHT ' ANDREW KOPKIND
The Warren Commission consisted of seven.'; ore seriously, (lie commission an mos
'your wrist-watch. In (almost imperceptible) only comfortable theory of the assassination
descending order of nnimnearhahility they J -: that it was the work of one demented man.
-were: I~arl Warren, Chief Justice of the US; -ne most pervasive mytn in America is the
John J. McCloy, former High Commissioner delusion of innocence:' we are' essentially a
for Germany and President of the World benevolent, generous, sincere,- straight-for-
"'Dank; Alicia Doilies, former Director of the ; ward folk whose errors are those of incxpcri-
CIA; Senators' John Sherman Cooper (Re. 'cnce, guilelessness and eagerness. Americans
publican) of Kentucky and Richard Russell cannot conceive of themselves as conspire-
; (Democrat) of Georgia; and Representatives { tors (despite the tactics of corporations, the
:;If ale Boaas of Louisiana: the Democratic ! maGa, the CIA and the FBI,. And the -tor-.
'Republican Conference Chairman. It was 1? perhaps out of such delusions, the eom
the kind of list someone might bury in a'
? mission took great pains to construct
'gcncrntions who had embodied all that was'-!.---`
with its member basi belief
of determining exactly what happened in the,
hour after noon of 22 November 1963 in ?"
p -went.. a stat,rr ent to the corr,misslon:
.-
:a (( done; they botched that job.
% e do have a dirty rumour-that is very bad
'th'. 1?t is now almost torn years since the rnm_
? .....,,,, be .. rt,a,u trot . . ,. Not by exal fining
'President Kennedy, and released 26 volumes its cnurce (that wit--
"hich ??""" from "" be Known archetype of the guileless, benevo-
Estill remains: was Lee Harvey Oswald the.. le?t America? A..__. ..
very popular question to ask. RicharU' >.N+ + -
s address book, _ and was deleted: 777
Goodwi Oswald's one of President Kennedy's accia- .. ___. - . - ..
tank, has dismissed the early critics as,. of ore vovta scut!;.
tents - was explained by I loover: "The clr?
demonologists, charlatans and self-pro-., cumstances under' which (the) name; et'
- 'motors'. Now, all of a sudden, the seeds of .'cetera, appeared in Osivaid's notebook; we're'
.. rlnnh, 'h~vn - hlncennanA er,A M. l:.,.,
.a Erb oth +a,? Angus ?hims l a yueauvucr, ~'tile investigation was closed: I;atcr, Mr War-
although ?of a' more respectable category tldrp
, ,repo a?eorter that some facts of the
'magazines and newspapers are full of reg.. ~b--____:.._.:__
toed damage FBI
the investigation be reopened. about to the
-image (the assumption being that there are.,.;
The proximate cause of the I' ?
fuss is a thin ___ . _
book, called Inquest, by a young graduate ? II': di"rty`evidcncc " dcnce 'c nua"uasually' - be if it ca to were treat .
etnA.+nt FA,uar.t Tat. on:.. in tr.h.,t t,.,,,..? -if it: 'not
1:?s
dote ...fined to Withhold it altogether
. ?
as a master's thesis in political science, Ep? By its very composition the commission
fin-
stein's book shows the extent of the come :was'almost certain to produce an inadequate
mrtVnn't tlnnninecc nrniwl;r^ and
and status,in the US by closing doors, climi-
evcr read or heard all the testimony;- the :),eating ;:doubts, shoring up the American`
rnmmissinpnrs worn nnlrr a?n~e.l:ntill:. :? .;,_ ,''. .. _
'tvrnuth h' Ntutn nrm,i-atter t tlon events
heir lucrative private pfacticcs? before the
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as an o official
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July 29, 1966
Eisenhower administration), heard stories
that Oswald.might be an FBI informer, het'
seconds after Kennedy was hit, and a film-'
-record bears out this story): or that there is
.J seen in two place at the same time in the'
,,',..months before the assassination (suggesting,.
a., as, Professor Richard H. Popkin has done,
.,.;-that a 'double' was being employed by puta-.
tive conspirators). When junior staff members
began to explore such problems, they were
called off by Rankin and the commissioners..
Doubts about the Warren investigation''
exist on several levels. Mr Goodwin cannot
believe that Oswald was not the lone assas='?
in but he would -like the commission's
shoddy work patched up. 'if we cannot deny
I this book,' Goodwin said in a review last
unday in Book Week, 'then the investiga-
ion must be reopened if we ? wish' to ap?. ?
roach the truth more closely' Epstein's
1ut rt also contains uwyuicung?ma-
trial for an alternative theory of conspiracy.
erg a discursive and frequently
1 trident book, Whitewash, charges that the
1 olikin's 'long and detailed article, in tho
.
delicious; hlitchcockian plot of four con-'
pirators working to force a US Winnrche
gainst Cuba. Others, not surprisingly from
mong the most disaffected clcmchis in' the
ountry, would like to'implicate everyone in,thit ii
uoryn a massve national conspiracy.
evisionism. But even so, if the Warren com?
issioners are exposed as merely hapless
ver the last two decades become more per-
ncnt. Was the Rosenberg case also a fraud?
he FBI's role then was every bit as curious
it is in the Oswald business. Was the
vjar fraudulent? John McCloy and Allen
vy wiping
t' the 'dirty rumours' in the assassination
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lilvestigation and preventing 'damage' to
i beginning to be a political issue. Goodwin.
i more or less;?a member of-the Kennedy,
g vernmcrit?in-exile.` Others of like pglitics
a c worried,-about the flaws' 'in the report.- .
though there- is no evidence that Robert
needy has yet' taken 'any'interest in the
!ter, the t ontin ing doubts' Will certainiy
in lease liis~distun e' from flit Johnson ad-.
h~?1968 c1c,Ction,'carttPalgn;; Tltat hour in.
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