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Colby: Angleton has MJ directive 11/20/63". Colby is CIA asset Clay Shaw directly implicates CIA here acknowledging that Angleton, two days before _ counterintelligence. Ensuring Oswald's participation in Kennedy's assassination, had the MJ directives—the the Kennedy assassination, no matter how minimal, burned document—and would use them to respond to provided a powerful rationale for preventing a thorough Kennedy's NSAM. This handwriting directly implicates investigation of the assassination. With Oswald being a Angleton in the Kennedy assassination due to the former communist defector, Angleton and the CIA could cryptic MJ-12 assassination directive. persuasively argue that Oswald's involvement directly There is more evidence to implicate Angleton directly implicated the USSR. This allowed the CIA to argue in the Kennedy assassination. Lee Harvey Oswald was successfully to the Warren Commission through Allen among a small group of American citizens to have Dulles, who was a member, that a thorough defected to the Soviet Union in 1959. Though the CIA investigation was too dangerous due to the risk of admits to having established a file on Oswald in 1960, nuclear war. Alan Weberman, an early author on the Kennedy The assassination of President Kennedy resulted assassination, claims that CIA counterintelligence was directly from his efforts to gain access to the CIA's monitoring Oswald even earlier. control of classified UFO files. Weberman cites evidence that Unknown to Kennedy, a set of secret Angleton was directly involved MJ-12 directives issued by his former hrough an intermediary, Gerry CIA Director, Allen Dulles, ruled out Hemming, a former Marine who knew . any cooperation with Kennedy and his Oswald and was recruited by the CIA.” With Oswald national security staff on the UFO Despite controversy over Oswald's H issue. It was Dulles and another six recruitment by Angleton and the CIA being a former unknown MJ-12. members who prior to his trip to the Soviet Union, communist sanctioned the directives found in the here is no question that as an defector burned document, including a American defector Oswald became the political assassination directive responsibility of Angleton's CIA Angleton and the against non-cooperative officials in counterintelligence. Upon his return CIA could the Kennedy administration. While o the USA in June 1962, Oswald and Dulles and his six associates pre- is activities were closely persuasively argue authorised the assassination of monitored by CIA i Kennedy, it was the CIA counterintelligence. Oswald's that Oswald's counterintelligence chief who involvement subsequent association with a gave the final orders that number of CIA assets provided . . . culminated in Kennedy's directly implicated the USSR. opportunities for Angleton's assassination. In doing so, James counterintelligence not only to Angleton arranged for a monitor but to manipulate communist defector to be Oswald. involved so as to eventually take The most documented source the blame and ensure that no of a CIA link to the Kennedy thorough investigation by federal assassination is the investigation or congressional authorities by Jim Garrison, District Attorney would follow . of New Orleans. Garrison found much documentary evidence to demonstrate that Lee Was Kennedy's Assassination a Covert Coup by MJ-12? Harvey Oswald was involved in a conspiracy led by Clay Historians who view the CIA as complicit in President Shaw. Garrison discovered that Shaw had an "extensive Kennedy's assassination point to the CIA's role in covert international role as an employee of the CIA".“° While operations in Vietnam as the reason why the CIA Garrison was unsuccessful in earning a conviction wanted Kennedy removed from office. Col. Fletcher against Shaw, Garrison was partly vindicated in 1979 by = Prouty, in his well-documented book JFK: The CIA, the House Select Committee on Assassinations. It — Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, reveals concluded: that Kennedy was attempting to end the CIA's influence The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence over covert operations.” Chief among these operations available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was was the escalating US involvement in Vietnam which probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The Kennedy wanted to end and was why he was committee is unable to identify the other gunman or the assassinated. extent of the conspiracy."' There is, however, a more compelling reason why OUN AEE: veantad Vannandeta eamaral beam communist defector, Angleton and the CIA could persuasively argue that Oswald's involvement directly implicated the USSR. Was Kennedy's Assassination a Covert Coup by MJ-12? Historians who view the CIA as complicit in President Kennedy's assassination point to the CIA's role in covert operations in Vietnam as the reason why the CIA wanted Kennedy removed from office. Col. Fletcher Prouty, in his well-documented book JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, reveals that Kennedy was attempting to end the CIA's influence over covert operations.” Chief among these operations was the escalating US involvement in Vietnam which Kennedy wanted to end and was why he was assassinated. There is, however, a more compelling reason why senior CIA officials wanted Kennedy's removal from office: the role of CIA counterintelligence in controlling 56 * NEXUS With Oswald being a former Kennedy's assassination by a hit team organised by DECEMBER 2009 - JANUARY 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com