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Was the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy a Communist Conspiracy? By Charles A. Morse [Tuesday, June 5, 2001; 12:01 a.m. ET] URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ It´s been 38 years since President John Fitzgerald Kennedy got his head blown off while on a routine campaign stopover in Dallas, November 22, 1963. Interest and speculation continue to swirl around this horrible tragedy. The continuing government secrecy is responsible for creating an atmosphere of cynicism and distrust. At this late date, the American people are entitled, at long last, to know everything known concerning this evil event. There should be a complete and immediate disclosure. Since the assassination, enough books and articles on the events of the day and it´s aftermath have been written to fill a library. Most of these are factual and well researched but suffer from the necessary and inevitable limitations resulting from the government cover-up. In 1985, "The Final Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations" stated "The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy." This statement turned the Warren Commission report on its head. The government itself, as of 1985, recognizes a conspiracy behind the assassination and says so on the record in this congressional report. Having said that, if there is one central theme that both the Warren Commission and all the subsequent researchers agree upon, it is that Lee Harvey Oswald was at least one of the gunmen involved. Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? What is rarely discussed is that Lee Harvey Oswald was a fanatical Communist. What was Oswald´s Communist background? The State Department testified to the Warren Commission that Oswald received a visa to enter the Soviet Union from Finland in October 1959, two days after applying. Normally, at the time, such a visa would take anywhere from 30 to 90 days to obtain. Oswald would renounce his US citizenship and spend two years and eighteen months in the Soviet Union. The Warren Commission admitted, "Oswald´s life in Minsk is the portion of his life which the least is known" and that "Oswald was given considerable benefits which ordinary Soviet citizens…did not have." The commission stated that Oswald himself had "frankly stated" that money paid to him at the time "had come from the MVD (secret police)." Oswald´s Soviet wife, Marina, came from a high-ranking Soviet Checkist, or secret police family. At least two of her uncles, including the one she lived with in Minsk when she met Oswald, were high-ranking officers in the MVD. While in the Soviet Union, Oswald was granted a highly unusual membership in a "hunting club" where he was allowed to keep and use a rifle. When he left the Soviet Union, June 1962, his wife´s visa was quickly processed whereas, normally, a Soviet citizen had to wait from 6 months to a year for such permission. The Soviets had granted Oswald an exit visa a month in a half before he actually left which contradicts their contention that they wanted to get rid of him right away. Upon arrival in the US, he joined the Communist "Fair Play for Cuba Committee." Some weeks before the assassination, Oswald would travel to Mexico City where, at the Soviet embassy, he would meet with a man identified as a one of the top KGB operatives in the Western Hemisphere. As a result, ironically, of a weakening of security by the Kennedy State Dept., including the sacking of specialist Otto Otepka, the future assassin would return and would, in fact, roam unencumbered in and out of the US. He had obtained a passport to return to Russia after the assassination. The Warren Commission, in spite of these facts, refused to consider the possibility of a Communist conspiracy. What could possibly motivate the Soviets to assassinate Kennedy? The following is sheer speculation and is not meant to question the validity of the research of others. It has been all but forgotten, since the assassination and his subsequent martyrdom, that Kennedy´s popularity was, in fact, plummeting in the fall of 1963. He was encountering uneasiness and indifference as he traveled around the country that fall. Many in the Democratic Party were predicting serious trouble in the upcoming election of 1964. The Deep South had been virtually written off. Time Magazine, in October, published the results of a survey, which showed that Senator Barry Goldwater "could give Kennedy a breathlessly close race." Vice President Lyndon Johnson was concerned about whether or not Kennedy could carry Texas, which was why he urged him to campaign there that fateful November. Senator Barry Goldwater, the best-selling author of The Conscience of a Conservative was, on the other hand, on a roll with genuine grass-roots support. The Goldwater phenomenon was unprecedented and, if elected, threatened, before the assassination, the entire edifice of the authoritarian socialist gains that the left had put in place going back to the New Deal of FDR. The country seemed to be waking up. This momentum would be turned around after the assassination. In addition, Kennedy had proven to be ineffective in terms of getting legislation of a socialistic nature through Congress. Did the Soviets, and their American apparat, including Oswald, believe that, as a response to an assassination a reaction would ensue against the conservatives? Could this reaction be manipulated to benefit the socialist agenda? To doubt this as a plausible theory is to express ignorance concerning the workings of the left-wing Communist mind. |
