The Darkly Ingenious Plot To Kill JFK and Cover It Up
In light of the recent revelations regarding the decades-long secrecy, deception, and lies of the CIA regarding its relationship with the anti-Castro group the DRE both before and after the JFK assassination, I believe it would be helpful to recap the essential aspects of the national-security state’s plot to assassinate President Kennedy and then cover it up.
I fully realize that there are still many Americans who do not wish to confront this ugly aspect of our nation’s history, preferring to settle for the old lone-nut theory of the assassination or the “I guess we’ll never really know what happened” theory. I contend that if we are ever going to get this nation back on the right track, it is essential for Americans to confront the dark side of the national-security state governmental structure that was foisted upon our nation in the 1940s and that continues to inflict massive damage on our liberty and well-being today. In fact, that’s why the JFK assassination is still so relevant today — because the entity that orchestrated and then covered up its role in that state-sponsored murder remains with us to this very day in a very big, destructive way.
When the U.S. government was converted into a national-security state in the 1940s, the conversion fundamentally altered America’s governmental structure. Unlike the limited-government republic that the Constitution brought into existence and that had been America’s governmental structure for more than a century, the national-security state immediately acquired omnipotent powers — powers that clearly violated the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Among these powers was assassination, which is essentially legalized murder — that is, the taking of life by federal officials without due process of law, in violation of the Fifth Amendment. No one cared about the constitutional violation because what mattered was keeping people “safe” from the supposed international communist conspiracy to take over the world, including the United States. Since the Reds wielded the power of assassination (and other omnipotent dark-side powers), it was necessary, it was believed, that the U.S. government wield the same dark-side powers in order to win the Cold War against the Reds.
Almost from the very beginning, the CIA focused on perfecting its power of assassination. (See an early version of its eery assassination manual here.) But it did more than that. It also focused on ways to hide its role in state-sponsored assassinations. For example, “suiciding” someone by throwing him out of a high-storied building was considered one of the best ways to kill two birds with one stone — the murder and covering up that it was the CIA that carried it out.
Once it was decided that Kennedy needed to be removed from office, on grounds of “national security” (see FFF’s book JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated by Douglas Horne), the objective was not only to succeed in killing JFK but also to cover up the fact that the national-security establishment had carried out the assassination.
But this was going to be the assassination of a president of the United States. Everyone knows that when someone kills any federal official, government officials are going to pull out all stops to investigate everyone who could have possibly been involved in the murder. Such an investigation would be doubly fierce given that the victim would be the presiden
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