The Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) is still seeking to block release of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The ONI, according to researacher Bill Kelly, is withholding records of its own internal investigations of Oswald after he defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and after JFK was killed in 1963. The latter reports would be explosive if they showed that U.S. Marine Corps investigators doubted that Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy.
ONI representatives assert that America’s oldest intelligence service doesn’t have any such records. That claim is dubious, for a number of reasons.
ONI, writes Kelly at JFKcountercoup:
seems to have misplaced all of its records related to the assassination of President Kennedy, the records of the Dallas ONI office, the investigative records and reports of the defection to the Soviet Union of former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald, the investigative reports of the assassination and the files of its director at the time – Admiral Rufus Taylor.
Two questions:
Could Oswald have been recruited (via the Marine Corps) to ONI before being “sheep dipped” for USSR work?
Second question: How does John Connolly fit into any of this, since he was Secretary of the Navy prior to becoming Gov. of Texas?
When the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) requested records from ONI, the Navy Reserve officer they assigned the task said she “accidentally” found an ONI file on defectors that the ARRB had requested. Some believe that ONI ran a fake defectors program. From Russia, former USMC defector Lee Harvey Oswald wrote a letter to John Connally, who had resigned his position as Navy Sec to run for governor of Texas. Connally passed Oswald’s letter on to his successor Fred Korth, a Fort Worth attorney who had represented Oswald’s mother and General Dynamics, the defense contractor. Oswald’s letter is among the public documents but records of the Dallas ONI office, the reports of the investigations of Oswald’s defection and post-assassination and the relevant records of the Director of ONI Rufus Taylor could not be located.
“The latter reports would be explosive if they showed that U.S. Marine Corps investigators doubted that Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy.”
I read Bill Kelly’s above referenced post over the weekend. It begs the question, who didn’t doubt Oswald acted alone?
In an interview with Walter Cronkite, LBJ doubted. David Talbot documents that RFK & Mrs. Kennedy doubted, so much so they sent an emissary to the USSR to personally relate their doubt to Khrushchev. Talbot goes on to write that two JFK’s top aides doubted, but were instructed by RFK to lie to the WC. How explosive is that?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10374276
It’s on record that Warren Commissioner’s, Ky. Sen. John Sherman Cooper & Ga. Sen. Dick Russell doubted, HSCA members, Richard Sprague & Robert Blakey doubted. CIA director John McCone doubted. Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry doubted.
And, even this little gem from CBS’s Don Hewitt shows that he doubted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWlFRCr33dk
As to whether Oswald acted alone in shooting President Kennedy, it’s doubtful whether an attorney from Los Angles or a cable TV news guy have any idea what they’re talking about.
It is without doubt, and factually accurate to say there was, is, and continues to be, from the lowliest man on the street to the highest councils of our government, doubt!
“The latter reports would be explosive if they showed that U.S. Marine Corps investigators doubted that Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy.”
I read Bill Kelly’s above referenced post over the weekend. It begs the question, who didn’t doubt Oswald acted alone?
In an interview with Walter Cronkite, LBJ doubted. David Talbot documents that RFK & Mrs. Kennedy doubted, so much so they sent an emissary to the USSR to personally relate their doubt to Khrushchev. Talbot goes on to write that two of JFK’s top aides doubted, but were instructed by RFK to lie to the WC. How explosive is that?
It’s on record that Warren Commissioner’s, Ky. Sen. John Sherman Cooper & Ga. Sen. Dick Russell doubted, HSCA members, Richard Sprague & Robert Blakey doubted. CIA director John McCone doubted. Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry doubted.
As to whether Oswald acted alone in shooting President Kennedy, it’s doubtful whether an attorney from Los Angles or a cable TV news guy have any idea what they’re talking about.
It is without doubt, and factually accurate to say there was, is, and continues to be, from the lowliest man on the street to the highest councils of our government, doubt!
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