Saturday, April 19, 2008

In an interview with Ken Silverstein of Harper's I addressed a question I hear a lot in barrooms and book parties : So who killed JFK? 

 I told Ken,

"I decided early on I could not solve JFK's assassination but would try to do something more modest and achievable: to describe what the events of 1963 looked like through the eyes of a trusted top CIA official. And they looked very suspicious, which is to say conspiratorial."

In my own view, there was merit to Scott's fears. He saw the JFK case from the inside. If Oswald had ever come to trial, he would have been a material witness. He knew counterintelligence techniques and he knew the use of agents. He went to his grave believing and saying that Oswald was someone's agent. There is no proof of that, of course, but as the book details somebody--maybe his good friend Jim Angleton--cut him out of the loop on the latest intelligence reporting on Oswald. six weeks before Kennedy was killed. 

Some people say there's nothing suspicious in the newly declassified  CIA paper trail, that the transmission of information about Oswald before Kennedy was killed was "routine." I agree. The paper trial is consistent with Oswald being an agent in  a routine counterintelligence operation that went awry on November 22. 

Read the interview here.
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