Interview · moment 16 of 20
Oswald as Patsy and the CIA's Post-Assassination Cover-Up
from Slumbering Herds of Cattle · #12
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4 minGuest
Talbot describes the House Select Committee on Assassinations' aborted investigation, the Warren Commission's suppressed finding of a conspiracy, and how Dulles was placed on the Warren Commission itself to steer the investigation away from the CIA and onto Oswald alone.
- 49:48House Assassinations Committee investigators in the 1970s uncovered connections between the CIA, the Mafia, and Kennedy's assassination.
- 50:41The last official investigation into Kennedy's death found evidence of a conspiracy and more than one shooter in Dealey Plaza.
- 51:04Kennedy kept Allen Dulles as CIA director to reassure the establishment of continuity, though the guest sees this as keeping two of the most dangerous people in Washington.
- 51:59The FBI regularly admits to foreknowledge of violent incidents only after being pressed by families or foreign intelligence agencies.
- 52:33Tim notes it's strange that in a country of 300 million, violent actors often turn out to have been previously surveilled or had relationships with federal agencies.
- 53:03Intelligence agencies often identify potential recruits as informants or double agents, sometimes using legal trouble as leverage or providing money.
- 53:42These recruited informants sometimes either go off the rails into terrorist incidents or are potentially manipulated by intelligence agencies for political reasons.
- 53:59Oswald represents the leading example of someone used as a patsy by intelligence agencies.
JFK assassinationCIARobert KennedyWarren CommissionHouse Select Committee on AssassinationsAllen DullesJ. Edgar HooverPonziBoston Marathon bombingLee Harvey OswaldRichard Nixon