MORE ON KENNEDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600150039-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: November 1, 1966
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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Ivor Montagu
A 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
elaborate and painstaking a structure, become so rapidly, so com-
pletely discredited. The air has collapsed out of it through two
pinholes. The giant obfuscation has melted, like morning mist :
before the sun. .
We come quite well out of it. 'If you want the gen, read LW could
be an excellent slogan for our fund. The moment President Kennedy
was assassinated, the editor in the very first following Notes of the
Month (see appendix, written within a few days of the murder),
before damning new factual evidence uncovered by the indefatigable
work of Mark Lane had begun to become available in the American
progressive weekly National Guardian (after refusal of publication in
all the other American press), pointed out the now admittedly
significant, features of the story. The Observer consequently com-
mented on this prior role of our journal. As soon as the Warren
Commission Report came out, broadcast over the entire world as
a paper back, an article in the next succeeding issue (November
1964) subjected it to analysis and disclosed a few of its contradictions:
Certainly our voice was not entirely a lone voice. But how populous
was the wilderness in which we then cried and which sought to
shout us down! Can The Times ever blush? The Nev iYork Times
printed whole, as it swallowed whole, every word of Warren. Over-
night it became the longed-for manna. The multi-million news
outlets of 'public servants' like the Thomsoiis, the gutter press and'
qualities alike, had neither doubts nor qualms. `Truth' had been-
established. 'Rumours' were silenced. The whole world was satisfied.
Only Reds out of step. The 'proofs' were now before history The
But it had not
And now, already: nobody will yo to bat for Warren.
The buc''Ket of whitewash with which the American establishment
an>>1 its sac:"--d-cow herds on this side of the Atlantic had. sought to
vwrl the fog '-f the emerging truth is peeling off in flakes. The report
is totally di-leiedited. Its central thesis, its raison d'etre, disproved.
Truly a fast job.
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' then Kennedy was killed, the Dallas police picked up a previously
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,
der had carefully prefabricated
`Communist' associations. Somew ere along the line, however,
someone of brighter intelligence t an the lower echelons realised
such allegations could turn' out too of 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 ccomplice in such an imaginary
plot. Trials would have to follow. And cross-examinations which
the, fabric could not face. The Naz s 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 and their evidence recoil upon
themselves. From the outset, in D Has, -the concern of the police
became to conceal the traces of arty e who could be associated with
Oswald in the crime.
And as such traces multiplied, the became the concern of everyone
else anxious to preserve the good r pute of the U.S. establishment
that is, the FBI, the administration, is allies and sycophants abroad,
the 'media','even the Kennedy fame .
Just as it was the concern of Joh son, the concern of Warren, the.
concern of his Commission.
But it didn't work. '
It cannot work for anyone who A ads the two books.* These'two-
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 anyo e who reads: by assembling a
group of signatories whose variety and sanctity will preserve them
from criticism from as many qua ers as possible, regardless of ;
whether they have time to do ade uately the job they undertake;
provide them with inadequate staff inadequate time,. a number of
alibis from all those in the establis ment who are under suspicion;
draft for them the necessary conch sions however much these may
be contradicted by the evidence that, even in such conditions, has
become available; and rely on then ' (justly as it turns out) to sign,
whatever their scruples, when it co es to the crunch. The sc.cond is
Edward Jay Epstein: Inquest: ' T7re rya ren Commission and the Establislunent
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